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Spirit at Work, Harmony in the Home
We witness increasing imbalance and turmoil in our planetary home with dramatically changing weather patterns and seasons. We know loss of Spirit, of place and of meaning as our landscapes are cleared, mined, developed and consumed. Artificial light and noise are a permanent part of our lives. In fact we now have to travel long distances into wilderness to see a sky full of stars, or to know that true silence is deafening. All kinds of communication gadgetry and techno-speak intrude on our mental and physical spaces. In this world where time and language and relationships and living spaces are driven by consumerism, it becomes even more important that our personal homes are places that nourish and calm us, and keep us in touch with beauty and Spirit.
This experience of spirit and meaning in everyday life is not something that can be bought from a hardware shop or an interior design showroom. A sense of place, of belonging and soulfulness, is something we cultivate through conscious living, through pure and positive thoughts and actions. We have to open our hearts to beauty and grace, and be willing to surrender control.
How would you rate your workplace? Does it energise and motivate you? Does it work efficiently and support your work tasks? Is it caring and comfortable, and filled with natural light?
And what about your home? What qualities would you like to experience in your home, and how well does it achieve that? Have you ever wondered what makes the difference between an ordinary work or home space, and one that is balanced and beautiful to be in?
The point of a well designed and arranged home is surely not to win an architectural award, keep up with the Jones’s or mimic design trends from a renovation magazine or TV show. Surely a good home will express a natural beauty, encourage harmony and balance in other aspects of our lives, and help to orient and align us with each other and our worlds. Importantly an harmonious home has a comfortable place within its community and landscape. It responds to spirit, the sun and the stars, and its footprint sits lightly on the Earth.
At Spirit of Design we’re not just designing for a good look; our designs bring spirit to place. We remove rigidity, perfection and control, allowing for spontaneity, dance and flow. It’s like the difference between a computer drawn line and the line drawn by a child. Which holds more meaning and beauty for you?
Using colour, texture, stories, placement, harmony, grace and beauty, we can make spaces meaningful for you. Whether a new design or an existing building our recommendations both big and small seek to ensoul, to connect people with their worlds and to honour landscape and nature. We celebrate pattern, rhythm, the sacred and the sensual. We encourage simplicity, emptiness and being in the moment. For it is in the silence, in the emptiness, that beauty shows up.