Lived In And Picture Perfect 3
Seasons In A Lifetime…
Personality translated in its raw form is applied in creating this space for a developing young adult client. The importance in allowing the natural personality of teenagers especially shine through in their personal space within the home cannot be stressed enough as it promotes mental health and adds to overall wellbeing.
Teenagers already feel like everything they do is dictated and guided by the experiences and prejudices of their parents or carers and rightly so, but within reason. It is important for Parents and Carers to remember that they too were teenagers once and be guided in providing an environment for their children and wards to develop into their own ‘beings’.
In a season where people are cooped up indoors, mental health is fragile even for the seasoned adult and everyone is realigning themselves with who they truly are. Findings during the redecorating of this space uncovered the quirky reason behind having the funky changing colored lights in the room: It helps to change the scenery and recreate mental imagery, gives the an illusion for social media posts, provides an ambiance for daytime naps and allows connection with like minded people. So if you like me ever wondered why a particular room in your neighbor’s house has constantly changing colored light that sometimes flashes? Well now you know, a young adult lives there.
In managing space, our approach is human centered for this reason: every occupant of a space deserves to have their personality represented in the design. The merits of this approach is that everyone (yes, including the really tiny people a.k.a. babies and toddlers), is accounted for. When everyone has a functional space with a bit of themselves represented in the ambiance, not only does it foster inclusion, but expresses recognition and foundational harmony in spirit.
No matter how small the space, we find creative ways of translating the personality of the occupant(s) into colors and textures, allowing for easy change and adjustments as we know first hand that each lifetime presents evolving and developing personalities in everyone.
We remain committed to making small spaces do great things.
Shallom,
USI.
