confetti and color palettes

                     Source I truly believe every home I have ever entered has had some sort of a gallery wall. While today, the Pinterest era might have sparked a more creative approach to the gallery wall, my childhood was filled of homes with walls covered in pictures of my friends and their families- not to mention that is exactly my mom has the walls of our hallways decorated. Every generic white backdrop photo or beach photo (yes, in the khakis) my family has ever taken is displayed along the tall, tan hallways of my childhood home and serve as a reminder for us of how lucky we are to have each other. Because I have always grown up with them, I cannot imagine having a space without some sort of a gallery wall. Gallery walls are interesting to me because they allow space to be filled with memories, inspirations, and treasures that you want to display to everyone. They serve as a little peak into your interests and belove...

                                Source The job of a well-designed interior is to promote the connection between a space’s design and the functionality of it.  That functionality is called ergonomics.  Ergonomics is around to simply create a user friendly space.  We need to design spaces that keep ergonomics in mind or we will have beautiful spaces with no prospects of being used. Thinking of all the spaces I inhabit, one of the most important spaces to incorporate ergonomics is the kitchen.  With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I have been thinking a lot about cooking and how it is so important that the kitchen allows for us to be able to move quickly and store a lot.  The kitchen in my apartment has served as well over the past year and a half, but does have some design flaws of its own that are just not user friendly.  The Dishwasher ...

                        Source I can distinctly remember the time between fourth and fifth grade when I grew an unfortunate foot seemingly overnight. Both the desks and the boys in my classrooms were just too short for me and I had accepted the fact that I was bound to be a starter on my middle school’s basketball team. Well, I was wrong and today at 5’3” I am pretty average to the rest of my female peers. But thinking back to the time when my legs scraped the desk tops, I wonder why a greater set of anthropometrics wasn’t taken into consideration in the design of my elementary school classroom. Anthropometrics is “the study of human body measurements on a comparative basis… its applicability to the design process is seen in the physical fit, or interface, between the human body and the various components of interior space” (Panero, Zelnik). Anthropometrics is a part of the design of everything we use in a room. It is ev...

Prospect and refuge is found within the spaces we frequent every day. In stores, on campus, and even in our own homes. Prospect and refuge itself is the “theory that seeks to describe why certain environments feel secure and thereby meet basic human psychological needs (Dosen & Ostwald). It’s how we look for spaces to make us feel safe when we are in large, open areas. Once you begin to pay attention to the spaces around you, you will notice how each space provides a prospect and a refuge.                                     Source For me, the first place I think of when I think prospect and refuge is the boutique I work at. The front of the store has large glass windows that allow both the customers and employees to see in and out. There is no privacy created with these windows therefore providing full prospect for whoever wants to see in or out of the store. In contrast, the refu...