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Interior Design with Julia Luttrell

Scaling down your space

As an interior designer, every time someone asks me what my own home looks like, I am reminded of that old adage �the cobblers� children have no shoes.� You�d be surprised how many designers, notorious for their natural ability to easily perfect a clients� home, seem perversely unable to make solid decisions about their own.
 
Rather than the typical workaday home expected of any other businesswoman, it is a commonly held assumption that every interior designer must surely live in showroom perfect surroundings. And indeed, in the days of my less secure youth, I myself have succumbed to the temptation to overdress my space to suit this expected image.

I once set a designer friend of mine loose in my own home and gave him carte blanche to do whatever he liked with it, with the single stipulation that he could not go near my sanctuary, my bedroom.

As a result my home became an exquisitely stunning showpiece�and I wound up living in the bedroom! Every time I stepped out of that room, I suddenly felt instantly transported into my workplace. I lived in a design showroom and could never go home.

And yes, I�ve gone to the opposite extreme as well, stripping my home down to a Zen-like simplicity, more conducive to the minimalist sensibility of a Buddhist nun, than the requirements of a working designer.

Thankfully, these first-hand early design experiments have since fine-lined my professional design training and reinforced my current ability to blend a balance of finery and function, when scaling down any space, to suit real-life circumstances.

Whether you�re a student moving into your first home away from home, or an empty-nester selling the family home to move into a condo, change is never easy, moving is often a nightmare and scaling down to a smaller space only adds to the pressure.

Many people are not aware however, of how an interior designer can help alleviate the stress. For the cost of a good haircut, a designer can inventory your existing pieces and help you to decide what keep, what to refurbish, what to sell or give away, and best of all, provide you with floor plans for your new home.

Let�s face it, the hardest part of downsizing is the necessary purging of years of packrat possessions. Knowing ahead of time what is going, and where it is going to go, will allow you to confidently dispense with the rest without regret.

Designers organize space for a living, love a challenge and the key to scaling down a space is all in the planning. A professional can open the door to elements of multi-function that may not have otherwise occurred to you and make maximum use of your downsized space. So, before your next move, consider calling a designer as your first move. It�s fun, affordable, and the smooth serenity of your move into your scaled down space is bound to astound you.

 

 

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