Plan your Home

Planning a home is an important decision we make in our
lifetime. A home must provide harmony and peace for th people living in. A home must also cater to all the needs of an individual and also to all the ages, sex, their lifestyle etc.

An Interior Designer provides expertise in planning an appropriate home that can assist the family or the household in assuring that their needs and desires are met, both initially and throughout their lifestyle.

Lets see the basic profile that must be kept in mind while planning a home

1. Who will live in the home?
2. What is their lifestyle?
3. What are the tastes of the household members?

1. Who will live in the home?
The number, ages, sex, sizes, activities and relationships of people who make up a household must be a primary factor in planning a better home.
Consider a young childless couple both with professional careers, who might use a room with a pleasant view, sun exposure and access to the kitchen and living areas for home office or study. If children are planned, the same room might first become a nursery, then a playroom and finally a family room while they are being reared.

2. What is their lifestyle?
'Lifestyle is the amount of time devoted to various activities in the home'. People prefering joint families need more rooms in their home for various activities like, playing, studying, eating together etc. While a nuclear family might need less rooms as they are limited in number. Expectations and values conditioned by ethnic and cultural backgrounds will undoubtedly emerge from these explorations and must also be considered. Also, some families prefer a very clean and neat home while others have a casual attitude towards housekeeping.

3. What are the tastes of the household members?
Taste, the likes and dislikes of an individual or a family. For example, an individual may like his/her home decorated with antique furnitures, rich fixtures and furnishings. Some individuals prefer a more simpler home with walls and ceilings minimally treated. Even the furniture which has been reduced to the barest essentials, is simple and streamlined. These are two extreme cases, but,many people do not like their home poorly or richly decorated. These tastes do illustrate how an important role they play in making a room spacious and well fit for the person who will occupy it.
Taste is not a constant phenomenon, it changes considerably over the lifetime of an individual. The home one furnishes at the age of 40 will look quite different to the home one planned at 20. Travelling, experiences, status, consciousness etc also has a great impact on once sense of taste and changes considerably.

These are some of the very basic factors that must be cosidered to plan a comfortable and better home.