Posts tagged environment
How to layout your living room

Are you worried about designing you living room? Are you looking for some easy tips to make sure your space is beautiful and functional? In this article read some tried and true design tips on space planning, how to create a functional layout, how focal points work, how to float furniture and how to find the best end tables and coffee table for you space!

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Are you, energetically, a Yin or a Yang?

Are you energetically, a Yin or Yang personality? Most people don’t understand what the Yin Yang really symbolizes or how understanding its duality can be used as a beautiful tool in their life! Duality is a constant and through understanding the Yin Yang concept you can better understand your inner self and the deeper self of others natural energy. This concept has been around for thousands of years but I find that it is helpful to have words around how people show up in the world and understanding where on the continuum you may fall. In regards to design in particular, it’s another fun way to approach the often overwhelming concept of your own design aesthetic. Which is a necessary component in creating the environment of your dreams.The Yin Yang concept is also a great place to start for design inspiration. Learn which way your energy leans in this article.

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Mental Health: How to Heal Your Connection to Your Environment.

Often people don’t realize that their connection to their environment effects their mental health, and that their mental constructs equally effect their environment!

By being aware of your own inner landscape you can engage powerfully with the creation of your own environment, no matter your circumstances!

If you are feeling overwhelmed, and not quite at home in your space, I want you to take these tips and thought exercises to effect change in your own environments. The solution lies within you.

I know first hand how challenging a space can feel. We all don’t realize how much our preconceived notions are affecting our spaces (or the rest of our life). I’m here to show you that really have the power and I’m excited to reveal some common thought traps and solutions for you below!

Being a designer for over ten years I have come into contact with all of these thought pattern examples, and many more. These patterns occur again and again and I want to free you from these unconscious modes of creation so that you can actually choose how you feel in your space. Engage your emotional intelligence!

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How to Combat Perfectionism In Interior Design

Are you afraid to engage with design in your home?

Do not allow the idea of perfection scare you away from design! Don’t let the ego overtake your soul in regards to designing your own environment! Im going to explain some tips on how to combat perfectionism in interior design, within your own home design projects.

I want you and all of my clients to know that there is no such thing as perfection, the perfect room, or the perfect room ideas.

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Design Concept: Contrast (+ its deeper meaning)

I love contrast I realized pretty early on in my design career that it was one of my most favorite

design concepts to use.

I wanted to share with you what contrast is in regards to design, but also the underlying reasons why humans respond to it the way that we do.

There is a deeper meaning connected to this basic concept and I wanted to share with you these meanings so that when you are thinking about the design of your own environment you can feel a deeper connection to your choices based on what you love!

When you understand why you may be reacting a certain way to design concepts, you are empowered on a more personal level to use these concepts in your own space!

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Design Style vs. Design Aesthetic, ...do you know the difference?

This article clarifies the difference between design styles and design aesthetic. I share my free interior design soul styles guide which describes types of design styles. But I share with you why your design aesthetic is so much more important! More than design styles and types of interiors, I show you how to discover your own design aesthetic inspiration. I share some of my design aesthetic rooms and how I come to collect these images for myself! Re-pin and click to get your Free Interior Soul Styles Guide!

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Why do you want to re-design your environment?

Are you looking to have a designer design your space? Do you need a change in your life? Do you know for who, what, where, when and why do you want to have someone design your space? Through this article I drop some truth on the design process and what you need to reconcile with before you can create an aligned designed space in your own home. If you are honestly in alignment you can create an environment of growth. But if you are emotionally misaligned, your motivation cannot help you co-create beautiful design!

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Catherine Rose Design Ethos

Catherine Rose Design Ethos. I wanted to explain why I created my company, and how I use the concepts of deeper self, holistic living and personality psychology through interior design. “I balance authentic design with intuitive insight to help my clients connect to their deeper selves by empowering their own creative self expression. I create space for my clients to follow their desires and depth of feeling, into a new environment that supports them, mind, body, and soul”

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