The two pillars of a successful interior design project!

Dear Friends,

Whenever I think of any design, be it interior design or product design, a few things very naturally come up in my mind. These are in the form of questions.

The best part is, answers to these questions can give rise toa very successful design in itself. Let's see how.
If I am planning to design a piece of furniture, let's say a double bed, immediate I start relating to what I alreadyknow about double beds, some picture/image I have alreadyseen, something I have seen in some furniture shop, etc...Then I start thinking about what material I should thinkabout, the budget, dimensions, age group of people who aregoing to use it, etc... If you answer these questions one byone on a paper, you will get a blueprint of the design process, so that you can convert in into technical drawings,with all the joinery details and finally the product.

Amongst above mentioned questions some are directly related tofunction of the double bed as a piece of furniture.

What does this mean?

When I ask myself, what should be the dimensions of a doublebed? I have very little freedom to decide the dimensions ofthe bed, because there are certain norms to be followed in order to serve it's basic function and that's comfort.

But what if I say that I will keep the overall surface area of the bed same , but make it round in plan. Will it be ok..

Now here I am trying to achieve both function and aesthetics,without sacrificing the comfort of the person who will use it.So during any design process there will be times when thedesigner need to take some decisions where he has to keepaside his wildest ideas and pay attention to function first.

That's why the true success of an interior design project isa good balance between function and aesthetics.
Expressing this kind of balance through design is not an easytask, because function is universally accepted, but aesthetics,not always.

What does this mean?

Beauty is always relative. A washbasin has a common universalfunction of an appliance to be used for washing hands, but it'sbeauty is relative. What is beautiful for me, might not holdtrue for you.

So a design expression can have a unique style of the designer himself. It is possible that the designer is morecomfortable with certain kinds of materials/finishes/colorschemes, etc.. which can reflect in his designs.
In spite of these personal touches a good designs always caters the needs of the user first. A good designer hasa certain kind of convincing power in his/her style whichhe uses to expresses in the design without sacrificing the likes/dislikes of the user.

There are designers who are more comfortable in designing onlya certain kind space such as bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms,public spaces such as restaurants, clubs, gymnasiums.

Of course this is entirely of a personal choice, but there is this same message in their designs, shell out your egoand design for the best parameters with worst possibilitiestaken into considerations. This is what gives birth to a great design.

I hope this article was helpful.

Copyright Shrinivas Vaidya
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