Study of "Interior Design" as a reflection of the mind.

Dear friends, we as humans are a composite of mind, body andspirit. All these three in proper coordination, create theworld around us. The things, which we want in life, are firstcreated in our mind, then our mind sends signals to our brainand the brain sends signals to various parts of our body totake action and thus "reality" gets created.This means that whatever we imagine in our minds gets convertedin reality. The program of our mind decides what we imagine.I mean if I want to decorate my bedroom, everything from thetype of furniture I choose to the budget decision will dependupon my "broader attitude" towards life.If I am a "budget conscious" person, then this will affect rightfrom the initial stages of the design. I will look at the designfrom a conservative point of view. Thus everything, which gets created in reality will have an influence of my personality.Here I am not trying to say that only high budget designs aregood. I have seen works of many interior designers, who havespent their entire lives on studying low cost design projectsand also have won awards for their magnificent work.That's why any interior design project can not be fulfilled withoutactive participation of the client or the user. Creativity doesn't have any boundaries of budget. Any piece of art whichfulfils the functional need and also the aesthetical need canbe easily accepted as an architectural element. Budget isnot a constraint at all. On the other hand the budget constraint sometimes is useful to generate some good ideas for a particularproblem.An interior designer is not an artist, because an artist basicallyperforms his acts to satisfy his own desire. This could beany performing art or other forms of arts. His piece of workmay not have any functional use from user's point of view.An interior designer is not even a technician or engineer.Because when an engineer builds a design he need not worry ofmaking it "beautiful". His primary aim is to make it functional.He puts his entire energy in making the design functional.That's why an interior designer is one who satisfies both thefunctional as well as aesthetical part of the design. Sometimesit is easy to accomplish the functional part of an interior design,but since the definition of beauty is different for everyone,it is extremely difficult to satisfy each and every user'saesthetic hunger.This is particularly true about interiors in public spaces.For example a bank building has a definite use and function forall the users. We can safely create a list of functions a personwould perform when he visits a bank. But this does notmean the bank reflects his personality, like the first paragraphof this article mentions.That's why interiors in public spaces always are designed by taking into consideration something called as "mass personality".This is a general attitude of the kind of mindset everyone would haveor is likely to have when he/she visits that space. If you visit large corporate software office premise, you will see this picture. Office interiors always have a certain kind of order in them.The use of colors, design styles have a kind of commitment inthem, which is expected from you when you work there.On the other hand a bar or a restaurant has some sort of mood generating atmosphere, which sets you loose. Because this is what is expected in a public space like a restaurant.Thus any interior space is always associated with people. A spacewhich serves its functions best and makes the users comfortable isbound to succeed as a favorite place.I hope this article was informative to everyone.Copyright Shrinivas Vaidya