Joy to the Home's Jeanette Fisher answers your questions about Design Psychology
What is Interior Design Psychology?
Simply put, turning spaces into happy places.
Or, the art of creating a fabulous home that supports your emotions using new interior design ideas based on science.
How did you discover Residential Design Psychology?
In 1985, we purchased an 1878 Queen Anne Victorian and began a major renovation. After tearing everything out of the kitchen all the way to the dirt, we rebuilt the entire space. I designed it the way I learned studying interior design in college. After all our hard work, it felt all wrong! So, I went to the University of Florida Architectural Library and began a fifteen year search to learn about how design details influence our emotions. My family helped me redesign our 6,000 square foot seven bedroom home over and over again testing my research. Our son studied architecture at The University of Florida and Harvard. Evan contributed to the research, design, and remodeling of our home.
Why do you call your design theory "Residential" instead of "Interior" Design Psychology?
Because the entire setting is important, inside and out. Even a small apartment needs a welcoming, joyful entrance. Your home's surrounding environment needs consideration in the Overall Design Plan.
How is Residential Design Psychology different from "traditional" interior design?
Design Psychology considers more than just the usual elements of interior design. I researched how our senses respond to our surroundings. We react to the basic interior design details as well as to other factors in our homes. The usual interior design elements are covered in a different way with the corresponding underlying physiological reactions. Additional factors, not usually thought of as interior design components, which equally affect our emotions and happiness, underscore Residential Design Psychology.
What are the fundamentals of Residential Design Psychology?
How our senses respond to our home's design details such as:
- Lighting & our Psychological Responses to Light
- Color & Psychology
- Patterns & Reactions
- Textures & the Sense of Touch
- Scale & Human Response
- Styles and Themes & Desirable Effects
- Ethnic Traditions & the Importance of Heritage
- Furniture & Arrangement for Human Comfort
- Sounds & Repercussions
- Scents & Sentiments
- Embellishments & Emotional Undercurrents
What are the differences between Design Psychology and Feng Shui?
I love many of the beliefs practiced by Feng Shui Masters. Design Psychology is better than Feng Shui because it incorporates the proven useful techniques used in Feng Shui and adds beneficial methods based on science. Residents may choose to use their Feng Shui details and further enhance their homes using Design Psychology.
How do you use Design Psychology to increase real estate profits?
We create an Overall Design Plan according to the target market and selling season. By using particular colors, patterns, props and staging methods we sell our homes in as little as three hours and for thousands more than the competition.
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Why use a landscape to demonstrate Residential Design Psychology?
We start with our emotions and the feelings we want to bring into a space. Mother Nature knows best how to blend light, shadows, colors, patterns, textures, and form. Choose your design details to support your emotions from ideas inspired by the greatest designer--Mother Earth.
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