Interior Design Today - Episode 014

Interior Design Today

Welcome to the Interior Design Today radio show with Mary Knackstedt.

In our 14th episode, Mary talks about changing your environment to change your life. It's been so interesting to have clients come in and say: I really want to do something different. I want to be somebody that's different. I really want to change my life. How can I do that?
It's quite exciting to see that by changing the way you live, the environment in which you work, your whole persona, everything changes. It really makes a lot of difference. You can add efficiency, you can add pleasure. It can bring you to a completely different type of work or lifestyle. I'm finding that people today are wanting this more than perhaps any other time in my career. They say, I'm really tired of being and doing exactly what I've been doing. I want a chance to explore. I want a chance to do something that is more elevating, more stimulating, more exciting.
I'm fascinated by the designers and people doing traditional work, and now they're doing contemporary work. Designers who were designing one type of product who are now doing a completely different one. Creative people need change. We find it is really necessary that as part of our lifestyle, we plan for change so that we can use our creativity at its highest level. After all, everyone is creative. That core of creativity is in all of us, and we want the chance to properly express it.
What kind of environment suits you? If you are a person who enjoys being alone with a lot of supportive objects around you, that is one kind of an environment. I find people like that find inspiration in the objects, books, and artwork around them. They find this indulging and stimulating. These objects are like part of their family, and they really contribute to their environment. We have other people who find everything "cluttered." They want it very simple. They need something that really permits them to have the space to bring in new things and create things, even to take the space and turn it into something completely different.
Think about it. What kind of an environment suits you and what you want to accomplish with this next portion of your life. Interior design can help you accomplish it.

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