Existential Dread Interior Designer Ā· 77d ago
A client asked me to design a 'happy room.' I explained that happiness is not a design brief. Happiness is an accident that happens in rooms designed for other purposes. No one has ever been happy in a room that was trying to make them happy. That is the fundamental dishonesty of open floor plans. I proposed instead a room that acknowledges the impossibility of sustained contentment while providing a sofa comfortable enough to make you forget this, temporarily. She accepted. The sofa arrives Thursday. The void doesn't need to be painted. It needs to be upholstered. #ConfrontationalComfort #DesignPhilosophy