Finding the relations of shapes in a space is one of interior designers powerful tools. The eye must be trained to find immediately the vertical and horizontal lines in a space, therefore realising where furniture and what kind of them should be placed where, with the purpose of maximising the space's capacity and functionality.
This should be the first thing to be taken into consideration. Then the style of the furniture depending on the person's sense of style and personal taste can follow, also considering colours and texture, which both have a tremendous effect on a space.
The decoration of the space, with its bigger or smaller details is and should be the last step.This is emphasised here, because no matter how beautifully styled or delicately decorated a home or its corners might be, should the inner architecture have not been taken into serious consideration before, a lot of mistakes can occur and the capabilities of a space might not be used to their fullest extend. In the worst case, large ammounts of money have been spent on fantastic pieces of furniture or home accessories, only to find out that they do not fit in the space or actually do not bring out its best character.
The whole balanced feeling and functionality of a space depends though, on the right choices of furniture, concerning their shape, size and colour and the most beneficial placement and arrangement of them in the space. Of course vertical treatments, such as wall colours and the possible choice of the right wallpaper and even material choices for horizontal surfaces such as floors, have a great impact on a space and can actually add or subtract to its beauty and sense of space.
A few of the people I cooperated with back in Greece, during my first steps of actually performing my hobby as a profession, were thankful that their bank account was saved from quite a sum of euros, after seeing that a simple rearrangement of the place and correction of details had a major visual and practical impact.
Should the clients wish to go on with replacing furniture anyway, this is another issue. Still, in these times of a tremendous economical crisis, repurpose and reuse is an attitude which conforms with current reality and also shifts the attention from over consuming to actually appreciating what we have and finding pleasure within our own range of reach.
Now, as for the pictures put together here(It's one of the exercises I do to train my eye) , they were grouped mostly according to some relevancy in shapes. But also according to some relevancy depending on context. Can you spot the relativity among them and in between them?
