Yes, it’s one of those things that seems to have homeowners pretty stumped. I think it’s because layout design is one of the things that’s all about keeping your home tidy and tidy.
I think the biggest influence on layout design is the way the room you are in is arranged. If an interior designer is smart enough they will take some of the mess and use it to draw attention to the spaces that are important. I can imagine a designer coming in and working on a master bedroom looking for a way to highlight the wall that is important by placing a large object in it that is used for a specific purpose.
For the same reason that we don’t like to clean up in our home, we don’t like to clean up in our office either, so the layout we place on our desk will definitely influence how we organize it. This can be the case even if the office is nothing compared to what you have in your home. We’ve all seen office designs that are so cluttered that they are making our employees look ridiculous and we often have to ask managers to clean it up.
We use our desks to organize ourselves because as we get older, we all have the same goal in mind and the same way of thinking. I think this is why we so often create layouts that are too cluttered.
The same thing goes with office design. When you want to organize your workspace no matter where you are, your first instinct is to try to make it too small. To make things bigger you must make things smaller. You can’t have too many books, too many documents, too many files, too many bookshelves. Not only do you have to make things smaller in quantity, you also have to make them smaller in quality, too.
I remember when we went to college, our professors would give us design assignments to design a new house for someone else. I would usually be tasked with designing a kitchen. I don’t know, maybe I didn’t always do that well. A few years later I had the task of designing a new house for myself. I was designing a home that was larger than what I was allowed to do… I think I was probably the only person in the whole office to get the assignment.
Well, you do have to be careful with designing a home. I would say, make it smaller. The smaller the size, the better. It will be harder to maintain the quality of the design the smaller the house, the more likely it is to be abandoned by time. However, even the smallest of houses is still a lot larger than your average family home, and most people would be able to afford to live in a smaller house than you.
And the way to make a home smaller is to make it simple. It’s easier to maintain a simple design, easier to maintain quality, easier to move into, easier to maintain it.
Most people don’t care about the design of their house. They just want their house to be functional and easy to maintain. They want it to be small enough to be relatively easy to sell, and they want it to be easy to move into.
There is a correlation between the size of your average home and its design, but that doesn’t mean the design of your home is the direct cause of that. And what is it that makes a house small? Simple houses are easy to get into, they are easy to maintain, and they are easy to move into.
