When you want to give your interior design dreams air - You must be able to through away a jacaranda table and chair

During the last week I have been preaching the mantra that "Materia in the wrong place is to be considered as rubbish" as a mean to substantially reduce the degrees of freedom that could be carried over between generations. I have gained the insight that the "Best for the future" is not equal to the "Best of the past"

First time you move away from home, wheater you are alone or in a relationship, is often about applying a "Best of the past" principle with regards to Interior design. Grandmothers chairs, your uncle's spare kitchen table, Billy bookshelves from Ingvar' store with a nice topping of curtains, carptes and paintings that never were meant to live be together. The drawbacks of this initial phase were widely surpassed by its advantages, interior design money available for clothes and fun nights out, and no disaster occuring for the inevitable scratches and accidents in your lower twenties..

When you have come to the point in life where you have a lot of ideas of how you would like to do it, you are also often in a position where ideas area shared with someone that you love, but not necessarily share your interior designs dreams with. You get your Kitchen furniture in, and have to adopt to your partners sofa. The memorabilia from your pre-relationship trips end up in the attic, one box for you equally traded for a box of your partners stuff. Some things go away and after all "The best of the present" often turn out to be the two best halves, that at least in theory is greater than one.

So what do you do when you get total freedom to shape a few rooms completely on your own. Do you go down the route of pleasing relatives that have so many inexpensive advices, read well used and/or well stored attic stuff, that you just must enjoy, even if they never did? Or is there another route of realising your dreams, even if it means throwing away a dark brown jacaranda table, and having it replaced with a white chipboard table if it fits better with your ideas? I think that the latter could represent a "Best for the future" approach, shaped by your dreams, tuned by your imagination and quite friendly to your wallet as long as you avoid the fanciest stores and material that was the norm in the 1950's and 60's.

This approach is in bright contrast to the values and norms of the previous generations. But it is worth a few fights and a leap of fait into the land of imagination:
* Which PURPOSES should a given room support
* Which FEELINGS should each room represent for someone entering
* Where do I take INSPIRATION from in the outlining the details of the interiors
* Which COLOURS will make the ideas come across, not only for me but for my future visitors
* And last but not least, how do I LIGHT the place to provide joy on a dark gloomy autumn evening.

I am thrilled by the amount of imagination that a set of keys could provide you with. And dreaming is not only a pleasant event, it is a pre-requisite for living your life to its full potential, and you might have to sacrifice some jacaranda along the road.