{"id":1520,"date":"2007-10-09T22:48:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T10:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/design-rules\/"},"modified":"2007-10-09T22:48:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T10:48:32","slug":"design-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/design-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.horace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/post-332432-1143349566.jpg\" title=\"Design Rules\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.horace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/post-332432-1143349566.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"Design Rules\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am watching Design Rules made by BBC lately.\u00a0 I always thought interior design is useless.\u00a0 Why would someone spent thousands of dollars to create an aesthetic feeling for your home?\u00a0 I can just do the painting and arrange the furniture by myself.\u00a0 This show doesn&#8217;t talk about home style, fashion, artistic appreciation, none of those non-sense most people don&#8217;t understand.\u00a0 The show return to basic, start from the beginning to educate the audience why a good home design matters.\u00a0 It give the fundamental design rules and explain why people should follow the rules using science and psychology.\u00a0 The show demystify the arts of interior design for the science minds.\u00a0 Now I knowing the criteria of good design in term of space, color, light and pattern usage.\u00a0 I can appreciate the work of interior designers.\u00a0 Interior design is not only a matter of taste, it is also a science to improve your living environment in real term.<\/p>\n<p>I also picked up a few insights from the program.\u00a0 Kinda like trivia knowledge to me but it actually is more like common sense once you have understood the proof.\u00a0 Personal space is about 1 meter because that is the perfect distance to see visual cue from face expression.\u00a0 Not too close that you can see the whole face, not too far that you can&#8217;t see it clearly.\u00a0 Color trends in fashion industry actually reflects the mood of the society in general.\u00a0 Dark color for bad days, bright color for good days.\u00a0 There are three levels of lighting, general lighting lit up the room, accent lighting creates the atmosphere and task lighting for work.\u00a0 The reflective index of the material determine how well natural light bounds around inside the room.\u00a0 To fill the room with natural light, which is good to health, you have to choose material and color carefully.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Design Rules is highly recommend, especially for those who plan to renovate their place and those who scare of art.\u00a0 I wish BBC can made a similar series on fashion, so I can learn how to buy clothes without feeling uneasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am watching Design Rules made by BBC lately.\u00a0 I always thought interior design is useless.\u00a0 Why would someone spent thousands of dollars to create an aesthetic feeling for your home?\u00a0 I can just do the painting and arrange the furniture by myself.\u00a0 This show doesn&#8217;t talk about home style, fashion, artistic appreciation, none of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/design-rules\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Design Rules<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"lc_iscn_info":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-_scribble"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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