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  • 1.  Home Design Psychology Workshop

    Posted 01-05-2016 01:33 PM

    This came across the CRAN communications desk over the holiday. This workshop is a continuation/expansion of the talk Toby gave at CRAN in Santa Fe.

    Home Design Psychology: Designing from Within

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    Home Design Psychology: Designing from Within
    A limited number of rooms in the Seaside Academic Village are available for this workshop. For more information on those accommodations, go to www.seasideinstitute.org/accommodations. Have you ever wondered how the home you live in can help (or block!) your personal growth? Are you redesigning your space, moving or . .
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    Jared Banks AIA
    Shoegnome, LLC
    Seattle, WA

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  • 2.  RE: Home Design Psychology Workshop

    Posted 01-06-2016 05:39 PM
    I've always told my residential clients that we want to bring consciousness to the sub-conscious messages we are sending to ourselves and our family and guests, when we make design decisions about our homes. I tell them that what they place at the center of their design represents what lies at the center of their lives. What occupies our focus in a home or room represents what occupies our inner focus in the realm of the tasks associated to that space. I ask them to really consider this and to choose carefully. Will it be the TV (information)? The hearth (warmth and alchemy)? The Library (knowledge)? The Study (home office)? Gathering around the preparation of food (kitchen)? Art (the studio)? This often causes them great concern, and it should. With 200 completed residential projects, I have come to feel the weight of my responsibility to ask the tough questions. For most residential clients, no other professional during their lifetime has or will been tasked with converting dreams into form and space. No other professional has or will be been tasked with assisting them in converting the largest amount of their personal fortune into tangible goods. I recognize this and I use the weight of this responsibility to ask the tough questions.

    David Ludwig
    Ludwig Design
    Sausalito, CA


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