PEACEFUL PLACES

‘We do better when our homes are better. They affect how we move in the world’

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Visual social networks such as Instagram and Pinterest can help homeowners curate their interests, hone their design aesthetic and create a home environment that reflects their personality and tastes.

“Everyone’s design consciousness has been elevated based on our access to information,” Berkus says. “People are literally planning not only their homes and their living rooms (on these sites) but their weddings and next meals.”

They have also served as great visual tools to help clients communicate to interior designers what statement and sentiment they want their decor to exude, “whether it’s something that reflects who they are as a person, their cultural heritage or a time in their lives that was meaningful to them”.

The flip side of these websites is that no one really understands what design features cost. “Clients will say, ‘We really love this marble bathtub carved out of a solid block of marble.’ And I tell them, ‘I love that as well. Are you aware it is the same price as a luxury car’?”

Your best shot at creating a home that feels “safe, warm and protected,” Berkus says, is to do your homework and figure out what design style best suits you before pulling out your credit card.

“We do better when our homes are better. Our homes make a dif- ference in how we move through the world.

“At the end of the day, when we come home and we close the door and light that candle, we want to know we are surrounded by things we have chosen and that we really love.” – Washington Post

Many people create spaces dedicated to yoga practice inside their homes.