The Art Institute's Modern Wing beckons Chicago design tourists

Cassie Walker -- Interior Design

Joseph Rosa sidles up to the security guard standing next to Patricia Urquiola's felt-flowered Antibodi chaise longue. "No one has touched anything, have they?" he asks in a voice that sounds parental, not just curatorial. Who can blame him? The curator of architecture and design at the Art Institute of Chicago, Rosa worked with Renzo Piano Building Workshop to fashion this corner of the Modern Wing into galleries for his department. At 8,000 square feet, the space is the largest of its kind in the world. Every inch has been carefully considered. So if a tourist touches the Urquiola chaise, it's more than a gaffe—it's a personal insult.

I've met Rosa for a tour. Even on a rainy day, light pours into the entrance of the Modern Wing—along with umbrella-toting visitors. As Piano partner Joost Moolhuijzen would explain to me afterward, "It really is about how you embrace the city and make the museum welcoming to the people who have never set foot in it." He says that the greatest challenge was to balance the desire for a light-flooded space with the sun-averse preservation of art. The solution was what he calls a "flying carpet," a series of angled aluminum blades running across the roof's skylights to protect the galleries from direct sun. Today, of course, that's not a problem. I dry out as Rosa and I walk toward the galleries. "At MoMA, they tell me, when you change design objects, it's actually in a public corridor. Here, you have an identified zone that's lockable." A good thing, since he plans on changing exhibitions twice a year.

Out of the 250,000 pieces Rosa had to choose from, dating back about a century, we look at some of his earliest selections: a preliminary model of the nearby Inland Steel Building by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, plans for Australia's Newman College, circa 1915, by Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin. But most visitors don't linger too long in the past. After a quick glance, they follow the siren call of the sound track to Ordos 100, Lot 006, Inner Mongolia, China, a digital video that illustrates how an imaginary family would live in a house by the architecture firm MOS. The crowd then drifts loosely toward Being Not Truthful Always Works Against Me, graphic designers Stefan Sagmeister and Ralph Ammer's kinetic image of a spiderweb that distorts and twists according to the promptings of a motion sensor. Rosa gives some serious consideration to two children playing in front of the piece. "We'll probably leave this one up," he says.

One of Rosa's responsibilities is to show how the relationship between architecture and design has evolved. I ask what criteria should be used to evaluate Xefirotarch's model for Sur, a summer pavilion built for the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York. Or what about Hella Jongerius tableware? After some careful thought, he answers, "I think the general public sometimes feels, I don't know enough about this to comment. But do you like it? Does it strike a chord in you? That's how knowledge grows." Rosa plans to push the conversation forward with temporary commissions from designers such as Florencia Pita of Mod and SCI-Arc, whom he calls "an inventive thinker, to say the least." Looking for acquisitions, he says, requires seeking out new issues and aesthetics.

We walk toward the final gallery, home to an impressive selection of contemporary chairs including Ron Arad's Rover, made from a car seat, and the red wire tangles of Fernando and Humberto Campana's Corallo. On one side of the room, an angular LED sculpture by Yves Behar gently pulsates. Donated by Behar himself, it's uncannily reminiscent of another recent addition to the city: UNStudio's temporary pavilion across the street in Millennium Park, which I had walked through on the way to the museum.

Rosa was a key player in the commission of that pavilion as well as one by Zaha Hadid Architects, so I ask about them over lunch at Terzo Piano, the restaurant on the third floor of the new wing. The two firms are "building from the past into the future," Rosa says. On the phone from Amsterdam, UNStudio principal Ben van Berkel describes his design as partly an ode to Daniel Burnham, whose master plan for Chicago is celebrating its 100th birthday. "Within the vision of the Burnham plan, there was this idea of diagonal vistas," Van Berkel explains. "Now you look up and see towers rising on the lake shore, rising in a diagonal manner." The cantilevered roof of the pavilion, he adds, could be interpreted as a riff on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House in nearby Hyde Park, yet the pavilion's lighting—which he designed to glow with more intensity as more people walk past—adds a futuristic twist. "If there's no communication between the public and the architecture you make," Van Berkel says, "I think you aren't really making architecture."

With that axiom in mind, I look around the restaurant, an 8,500-square-foot space by Dirk Denison Architects. Everything is flexible, from the floating credenza and banquette at the entry to the rolling painted aluminum-and-steel dividers that allow the dining room to be quickly changed into any number of configurations for private entertaining. The restaurant is specifically meant "to feel like it's in a museum," Dirk Denison says. Hence the Piano-inspired white palette and the vitrines displaying contemporary representational ceramics. Curvy chairs by George Nelson "bring sensuousness to a space that is otherwise very rational," Denison explains.

What a fitting description for the entire experience, I think—until I revisit the galleries a week later. Behar's LED piece still glows and, behind it, window shades rise to let in softly filtered afternoon sun. "What an un—Art Institute—looking room," one visitor remarks. "That's the idea," his companion replies. If Rosa were here, his parental sternness would surely transform into paternal pride.

FTF Design Studio - Rack


The simple act of carrying a pile of firewood in his arms gave designer West Chin the idea for Rack, a sleek U-shaped container that can cradle objects such as logs, towels, or magazines. Crafted from white Corian, it comes in four sizes starting at 14 inches wide.

In the Shadow of Versailles

France's most celebrated château has a new neighbor, the renovated Ecole des Beaux-Arts by Platane Architecte

Seth Sherwood -- Interior Design

Talk about a French paradox. For decades, half of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Versailles—a prestigious school of fine arts, founded in the late 18th century near the famous château—languished in a charmless 1950's concrete annex at complete odds with the lovely things created inside it. Worse, small windows sealed off the building from the outer world, undercutting the school's philosophy of total openness to students of every background, to the local community, and to arts of every variety. "It was very, very ugly," architect Platane Beres says with a chuckle. "It had utterly no character."

A complete redo of the two-story, 5,000-square-foot structure proved to entail a series of delicate balancing acts for Platane Architecte. The city of Versailles, which runs the school, envisioned transforming the boring front of the building—south-facing and sun-baked—into something monumental that would engage the public and admit more light. The new facade would also have to make sense in the context of Versailles's grand baroque architecture. At the same time, however, Beres needed to keep students' and teachers' needs in mind. That meant screening harsh direct sunlight and shielding ground-floor studios from distracting pedestrians. One potentially attractive solution, a glass curtain wall, was therefore out.

Then Beres had his eureka moment: "We have to use stone!" In this case, what he calls the "noblest of all building materials" is a sand-colored limestone that allowed him to pay homage to the many stone edifices of Versailles. His design, however, resolutely avoids mimicking them or quoting styles from the 18th and 19th centuries. No dandified flourishes. No throwback frills. Instead, his rhythmic facade is composed of six tall stone panels that alternate with six tall windows. It's both monumental enough to valorize a venerable institution and restrained enough not to overpower the quaint, villagelike surroundings.

Beres didn't stop there. Knowing that the scheme would admit too much light, he installed a floating stone panel just a couple of feet in front of each of the six windows. Because the panels' dimensions match those of the windows almost exactly, the powerful southern sun is prevented from assaulting the interiors head-on, but its rays seep around the edges of the stone, creating indirect light. The configuration also keeps the school cool in summer while reducing noise from the cobblestone street.

While the stone slabs between the windows are the regular, flat variety, Beres used a CNC milling machine to carve seemingly random protrusions from the slabs that compose the floating panels. These smooth bumps, he says, make the surface "strange, weird, like a planet or a human body. They have a very sensual aspect. People want to touch them." The sculptural forms, he continues, allude to the sculpting and other arts going on inside. Pedestrians are seduced into further contact with the structure by the brief diagonal glimpses of the school's interior caught between the panels and the windows. "You can't quite see the things going on inside, and you wonder what they are. Your curiosity is aroused. But you don't bother the students," he explains.

The school's north-facing rear facade, which looks out on a private courtyard, is the polar opposite of the front one: no direct sunlight, no street life. Beres played up the contrast, knocking down the concrete wall and replacing it with virtually unbroken glass. There's no stone in sight. Yet not content with a common curtain wall, he added angles to his: The surface looks as if it were constructed from a gigantic sheet of clear origami paper. Whereas the front of the school is opaque, tactile, and muscular, the back is transparent, hands-off, and delicate.

Classrooms and studios, meanwhile, evoke blank canvases. Beres ripped up the old industrial floor tiles to reveal smooth concrete, which he painted a pure white. Walls and ceilings got the same paint job. The only major concession to color and furniture is a pair of vast red rectangular shelving units that slide along tracks in the floor of the hangarlike multipurpose studio on the ground level. The movable units double as walls, allowing teachers and students to manipulate the atelier's size and layout.

Especially striking is the diffuse, balanced, cool white light that fills the interior. For Beres, this effect—achieved by the contrasting north and south facades—creates the ideal environment for making and displaying art. "It's as if you're floating in light, enveloped by light. Any object that you put in the room, even yourself, your body, becomes a figure highlighted against a white canvas," he says. The artist becomes the artwork, a beautiful French paradox par excellence.

December Update

Can't believe its the end of the year already! This past year flew bye. We have been blessed this last year by receiving several national awards and by being published is several national & local magazines and had a lot of coverage through the internet. Since our last update we found out that I was elected to the Board of Directory at the Alliance for Environmental Sustainability (AES). I consider this a great honor and look forward to working with the rest of the Board members their, the AES has mentored myself and Image Design, LLC over the last 4 years and we would not be where we are today without them.

Our projected LEED for Home "Platinum" Glenn Retreat project is now under construction and the homeowners are writing a web-log about it. You can follow the progress of this project by clicking on the project's name above. Our projected LEED for Homes "Platinum" Turtles Hope project should be nearing completion some after the first of the year. We have several interesting project in design one of them is a sustainable remodel to a 1890's old farm house (see the picture above) built in in Dowling, Michigan the homeowners call the project Uncle Shane's. You can also follow the progress of this project by clicking on its project name too. This project will ultimatly be turning into a off the Grid Orgainic Farm. We are working on commercial LEED certified project called Northwoods by Nature that will be a non-profit Training Center for Green Building and Wind Tower Safety in LeRoy, Michigan. This project is exciting to me because it will give us a place up north to train and speak about Green Building and the LEED for Homes program to Builders, Sub-contractors, Building officials, Realtors and Homeowners in Northern Michigan. Some of the other project's we have in design will be built-in Howard City, Traverse City, Benzonia, Beulah, Dexter, Glenn, Ionia, Friutport, Newaygo, LeRoy, West Branch and Grand Rapids.

We are also anxiously awaiting final LEED for Homes certification on two of our projects the national award winning Vineyard Project which is projected to be "Platinum" and th Granite Hill which is projected to be "Gold". I am also in the process of working on my LEED AP + Homes Professional Credentials this is a two part process, first I will go for my LEED Green Associate certification then take a exam then if I pass it, I go take the LEED AP + Homes exam. This certification is worth one point on any of my projects that are going for LEED certification. So its important to have these Professional Credentials and it will also sets me apart from my competition. Also I will need it for a new venture I will be starting in 2010 (More about that next year)

2009 was a challenging, yet transformative year. Looking forward to the opportunities opening in 2010. Hope you all have a Happy New Year!

Vilagrasa - Ash


For those increasingly rare public spaces with no smoking ban in effect, Ash cigarette receptacles are truly smoldering—made of steel painted matte black and trimmed with polished stainless steel. Select one of two sizes: 47¼ inches tall by 11 2/3 wide by 4 deep and 44½ inches tall by 15 wide by 9½ deep.

Big Man on Campus

Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design


When Thomas Heatherwick won a competition to design the Aberystwyth Arts Centre at Aberystwyth University in Wales, he was reluctant to dilute the rural character of the site with a single monolithic building. Instead, he built eight small ones nestled among the pine, oak, and birch trees. Seven of the eight 850-square-foot structures contain two identical studios; the eighth one is a single.

The school provides the studios free of charge to artists-in-residence or rents to small creative start-ups and local artists. "One of my reasons for renting was because of the light in the studios. It's so beautiful," says painter Mary Lloyd Jones, who works on her abstract canvases there.

Heatherwick's master touch was to use a futuristic stainless steel just .005 inch thick, about the same as a Coke can. Sourced that thin, the material was less expensive, but unfortunately it was neither rigid nor insulated. To firm it up, Heatherwick Studio passed the sheets between two wooden rollers in a contraption akin to a Victorian mangle, the type of clothespress common back when Aberystwyth was founded in 1872.

The machine gave the ultrathin stainless a crinkled appearance reminiscent of the foil walls of Andy Warhol's New York studio, the Factory. The designers then sprayed a CFC-free rigid polyurethane foam on the back of the metal for insulation. Resulting panels are not only affordable, solid, and well insulated but also accommodating of the timber-framed structures' eaves, windowsills, and other details. In addition, the nonuniform surface reflects jumbled glimpses of the surrounding forest and the sky.

"As the young trees and grass begin to mature, the units will feel further embedded in the environment," Heatherwick says. "We're like architectural tailors, building simple forms with an extraordinary skin."

This isn't his first go-round with metal manipulation. He used 55 tons of hot-rolled steel for a Longchamp boutique in New York and wrapped a boiler house at Guy's Hospital, London, in woven stainless. It's not likely to be his last either. His upcoming show at London's Haunch of Venison gallery includes five aluminum benches produced by the world's largest extrusion machine.

Humanscale - V3


The V3 wall station provides a space saving, ergonomic solution to accommodate multiple computer users in health-care environments. The wall-mounted, track-based unit supports a computer monitor, keyboard, and CPU. Because the system is on a vertical track, it can be positioned to adjust to most users easily, whether they prefer standing or sitting. The track extends up to 70 inches high.

AIS Lends Extreme Makeover: Home Edition a Helping Hand

The office furniture manufacturer's donation including 24 workstations, three private offices, four teacher stations, a conference table, 43 desk chairs, and 80 storage units, is valued at over $275,000.

AIS ABC Extreme Makeover Home Edition The Fishing School


In its second partnership with the ABC television network's Emmy Award-winning reality television series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Affordable Interior Systems has donated office furniture to the newly rebuilt The Fishing School in Washington, D.C.

The youth development organization for children ages six to 13 was rebuilt by IA Interior Architects as part of the hit show's upcoming seventh season. For their part, AIS donated 24 workstations, three private office set-ups, four teacher stations, a conference table, 43 desk chairs, and 80 storage units, valued at over $275,000, and installation services for three floors of the school by Maryland Office Interiors.

AIS ABC Extreme Makeover Home Edition The Fishing School

AIS had previously furnished over 20 office spaces in the rebuilding of the Keiki O Ka Aina Family Learning Center in Honolulu, Hawaii for the fifth season premiere of EMHE. AIS exceeded its previous donation for The Fishing School project, which represents the show's largest build to date. The show is set to air sometime in November.

Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design


Desu Design - Taru


The white serving platter is arguably the little black dress of the kitchen—an on-call basic of which one can't have enough versions. But the Taru platter, with its striking interplay of lines, angular forms, and textural geometry, bursts out of the standard mold. Crafted of a non-porous high performance resin, the durable platter is 11 inches square.

Child's Play

With an arts center for little Parisians, Matali Crasset makes effervescence effortless

Raul Barreneche -- Interior Design

From 1873 until the 1990's, a cluster of redbrick buildings in gritty Montmartre was the epicenter of death in Paris. Today, the municipal mortuary, renovated by Atelier Novembre, is among Europe's biggest artists-in-residence complexes, christened 104 Cent Quatre after its location at 104 Rue d'Aubervilliers. Studios and workshops for hundreds of painters, sculptors, musicians, and dancers as well as industrial designers now occupy former coffin-making shops, stables for horse-drawn funeral carriages, and garages for later hearses. Art openings and hip-hop parties bring plenty of life to lofty skylit halls once devoted to the departed.

The action is no longer adults-only with the addition of the Maison des Petits, or House of the Little Ones. Established for children of both the center's creative denizens and the residents of one of the city's poorest and most ethnically diverse arrondissements, this isn't a day-care center. Parents or babysitters must accompany the under-6 clientele. Originators conceived of a welcome center where children learn by playing together in the Montessori style, with an eye toward discovery. Young and old alike are exposed to the creative process as mothers and fathers socialize on the sidelines, and new moms are encouraged to come in for nothing more than to change diapers and talk to fellow grown-ups. Resident artists and designers have an open invitation to create toys and games, though there is no formal programming.

Filled with the sounds of children playing and adults chatting, the 1,500-square-foot space is the work of Matali Crasset Productions. Known for whimsical, colorful interiors and furniture as well as her signature Joan of Arc bowl cut, the prolific Matali Crasset envisioned the Maison des Petits as a surrealist garden with organic forms flourishing inside a hard-edged perimeter: a glass storefront system in front, original steel-framed industrial windows in back, and white built-ins along the sides. Upper cabinet doors swing sideways to reveal cubbies. Underneath, identical-looking doors angle downward to become padded seats, perches for adults keeping an eye on children. On top of the built-ins, acoustical panels with rows of lozenge-shape cutouts create a "shell of possibilities," Crasset says. She organized the space within according to children's ages, rendering different zones in distinct bold colors.

Pea green is for the youngest visitors. In the middle of the floor, they enjoy what she calls the "navel," its soft, sunken center ringed by a low-to-the-ground plastic-laminate surface. Infants crawl around inside, supervised by adults sitting on squishy green ottomans. When the playpen is not in use, four wedges clad in matching green laminate fill in the center to create a large round table.

Blue comes in three shades. Above the "navel" hangs a circular canopy constructed by stretching midnight-blue fabric over the spokes of a frame, umbrellalike. The same fabric wraps the tops of four sky-blue "activity mushrooms," as Crasset calls them. Surrounding the infant zone, they indeed look like enchanted toadstools from a cartoon fairy tale, and children aged roughly 2 to 6 use the shelves around these freestanding finned structures to play games, make crafts, or finger-paint. A turquoise archway near the entrance of the Maison suggests the outline of an actual house. Inside the ghosted structure is a make-believe kitchen where the children can pretend to cook. "They respond immediately to objects that have imaginary potential," Crasset says.

A working kitchen is wrapped in bright orange walls. Crasset chose similar lively shades for padding on a bench and the fold-down seats and for plastic stools that resemble jolly orange gas cans, complete with handles. The stools store not fuel, however, but books and art supplies.

These stools line the lower end of a worktable with a yellow top that zigzags down from 28 to 15 inches in height—children and adults always get equal billing at the Maison des Petits. Right outside the standard restroom, there's even a pair of pint-size potties.

Applied Science

Edie Cohen -- Interior Design

Restoration Hardware 's polished-nickel pendant fixtures; photo by Art Gray.

The Lab Gastropub on the University of Southern California campus represents big news for two Los Angeles institutions. One is USC itself, which is moving away from cafeteria-style dining halls, toward venues that look like they belong in the private sector. The other is AC Martin, a 103-year-old architecture firm with a nascent interiors division that's now completed three food-service commissions from the university.


Slate-topped teak communal tables and teak benches, all custom by Lily Jack. Chemistry formulas on a blackboard set into beveled subway tile from the Tileshop. Photos by Art Gray.

Attracting students, professors, and downtown residents alike, the "laboratory" theme was conceived by Christopher King, director of interior architecture, with Joanne Camacho, senior graphic designer, and it informs every bit of the 2,200-square-foot interior. Remember blackboards from Biology 101? Here, slate tops the five communal tables. How about the chemistry formulas memorized during midnight cram sessions? The one for caffeine has a special place, inside the rims of coffee cups. King hit local shops for test tubes, beakers, and science books, used as accessories. And a black-and-white image of an old-fashioned microscope, enlarged to 10 feet high, is printed on wall covering. Take a closer look.

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Stylish And Elegant Living Room Designs For Home Interiors

Throwing a party or just hanging out with friends? Staying in and watching a movie or playing on your Xbox? Relaxing after a hard day of work or lazing around on a Sunday? Living rooms from Zalf become a platform for much more. Contemporary living, neutral shades and modern fixtures accentuate the theme of the room to give you a comfortable living experience. With bare necessities strategically placed in the rooms, one can enjoy the benefits of easy living. To make sure that you r living room has standard and class it is important that you do not crown it with too much of furniture. Only the most important and needed furniture should be used for designing your living room and shown below are images following exactly that concept.

Stylish And Exclusive Living Room Designs With Leather Sofa

Stylish And Exclusive Living Room Designs With Throw Away Rug

Stylish And Exclusive Living Room White And Black Design

Stylish And Exclusive Living Room Designs

Classical Interior Design

If you are a fan of smelly goods classic then the right way for you is to make in every corner of your house with a classic design nuances, because then you will always enjoy the smells of a classic in every day ..
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Classical Dining room Design




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Exotic Upholstered beds

The skill of the carpeting will bring him a vaporous and surrounding sensation. According to the textile selected to upholster our bed, the resultant style will change very much. From the most classic bedrooms, happening for modern and functional ambiences or even style rooms naif.

The textile chosen in this first bedroom is white, with a soft texture that brings him a sheen that is precisely who dials the style up. A classic and elegant bedroom.

. But if we are more a little more bold or lover of some concrete color, we can carry out fashion designs as that of the photo, in which the color mustard is a proprietor and master of the bedroom. Here not only it is the bed the one that has been upholstered, but this skill has been used in each of the elements that compose the bedroom.

The same textile was even used for the dressmaking of the bed clothes. The result is that of a comfortable, bold and modern bedroom. And also, functional, here, there is no danger suddenly with the corners

But if what we search is a luxurious, glamorous, sophisticated, contemporary bedroom … we will obtain it with a textile like that of the photo. Golden skin to which also the seams bring him a plot that brings him texture.

Hollywood Actress Julianne Moore Apartment Design

Julianne Moore Luxury Apartment Living Room Design

Julianne Moore Luxury Apartment Bed Room Design

Julianne Moore Luxury Apartment Study Room Design

Julianne Moore Luxury Apartment Kitchen Design

Julianne Moore Luxury Apartment Passageway Design

Looking at homes of celebrities will always leave one in awe. American actress Julianne Moore one of the famous Hollywood actresses, this house shown below belongs to her. It has been intricately designed by her. Looking at the design one can say she is something else too apart from being an excellent actress. This house is located in Townhouse West Village New York. Her tastes in interiors and designs reflect in the way she has got the decor of her house done.

Traditional and Contemporary Bathroom Designs

There are lots of ways to calm your jittery nerves and one of the best ways is a soothing bath. Refreshing oils, soft music in the background, scented candles, your partners company and many more can be used to relax your nerves but the experience of a soothing bath would be incomplete with a proper bathroom set or a bathtub. Shown below are some beautiful contemporary and traditional bathroom design sets from Pearl Baths. These designs have a rich and lavish look thought they are not that expensive. There is a rich mixture of serene colors and textures which will help you have a perfect bath.

Traditional And Contemporary Bathroom Design With Corner Bathtub

Traditional And Contemporary Bathroom Design With Candles

Traditional And Contemporary Bathroom Design

Traditional And Contemporary Bathroom Design Besides Window

Customized Luxury Home Interior Design In Canada

Customized Lavish Canadian Home Interior Design – Fire Place Design

Customized Lavish Canadian Home Interior Design – Living Room Design

Customized Lavish Canadian Home Interior Design – Dining Room Design

Customized Lavish Canadian Home Interior Design – Master Bedroom

Shown below is the interior design of the magnificent Canadian Townhouse which has been customized and finished with standards rarely available. It has 360 degree view of the stunning False Creek city of Canada. The entire house has been very minutely designed keeping every bit of need in mind. It has a large living room, a separate mini bar room, a 1400 bottle wine cellar and an impressive master bedroom. There are lot of guest suites, panic room and private outdoor decks completely furnished. It also has its own gymnasium with all possible equipments for an entire workout and a very romantic dining room too. Please check out below the images of this magnificent customized house.

Get Inspired: Black and White Interior Ideas

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Black and white interiors are classic. The moods you can achieve and styles you can create with this minimal color scheme are truly amazing. Below are a collection of photos that show black and white really can step out of the shade.

Beautiful Architectural Interior Design

The interior design of your home should reflect the character of 'exterior design'. A French, English or Italian-style home must have a period-style moldings and decorative design details to complement the other in the facade treatment. The proportion of interior arches, ceiling treatments, stairs, panels, etc. must be the same as carefully designed as such aspects of the exterior. Architecture is important, whether interior or exterior, and must maintain the integrity of the force. Because your home is a decisive force in your life.