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here's a rule of thumb for interior design about 80 of

what i do comes down to just a few basic principles

it is finding the right space plan color palette cohesion

and scale and proportion if you put time

and effort into getting those three right you can't go wrong i'm a certified interior designer

and i've spent almost 20 years designing hundreds of homes for people all over the world

and in almost every space that needs my help it is typically one of those fundamentals

that needs to be addressed

so in the next few minutes i'm going to walk you through these core basics

that do most of the heavy lifting so you can look at any room

and know what to fix let's start with the most important

and it's what i help out with the most

and that's space planning i know that's an industry term space planning

but it basically means the layout of your room

or your home design starts here creating a floor plan is

step one of my design process your layout is the most important

because it decides how you actually use

and live in your space a good space plan feels effortless

while the space is in use you don't have to think

about it it doesn't cause any hiccups in the flow of

your lifestyle almost every floor plan i've looked at could use

improvement somewhere to serve my clients better your space should be

working for you for your specific needs not against those needs

or your lifestyle now here's where it can get misunderstood a good layout is not a copy

and paste situation there's no single correct floor plan for everyone we design spaces for individuals

and families so copying a layout you saw online almost never works everyone's needs

and lifestyles are different therefore every space plan and home will be different

so before you plan anything you should ask yourself what your needs are

and how you need your space to serve you and your lifestyle there's four questions i ask all my clients.

And you can ask these about your own home and space.

One is how many people actually use and live in this space day to day.

Two, what happens in this space?

List every activity that's going on in this room, like eating, working, watching TV, reading, hosting, whatever it is.

Three, what does a good day in this room look like to you?

And what does the room need to do to make that easy?

That could be storage, a fold -out sofa, items that would make your life easier while accomplishing your goal and end use for this space.

Four, when you walk in this room, what's the first thing you do?

This is important in making your actions feel effortless with the least amount of pushback.

For example, if you always drop your bag and kick your shoes off, there should be somewhere dedicated and easy to do that.

If you sit down and open a laptop, there should be a seat and a surface ready for you.

Those four questions are your starting point.

This should identify who and what your needs are from your space.

Here's what this looks like in reality.

And I share this in the first chapter of my new book, The Functional Home, which is available on my website for pre -orders

and it's coming September 1st. I worked with a family of five who had a tight galley kitchen, completely closed off from the rest of the house.

It was, in short, a one -person kitchen.

And my client physically felt closed off from the rest of the house, but more importantly, closed off from her family.

For the space plan, I listened to their needs and wishes for more family connection.

And long story short, they were able to take down a dividing wall to open the kitchen to the rest of the house.

We added a peninsula with seating plus a large prep island.

This new plan completely changed the function and flow of the kitchen as well as their family's lifestyle.

Now the whole family can share this space at the same time.

Kids doing homework, parents and kids prepping a meal together, having conversations and connections in a space.

That was so desperately needed for this family

because this layout changed how they spend their time together the problem wasn't

that the kitchen was too small it was

that their space plan of the kitchen wasn't serving them

and their family's needs

and once it did it was quite literally life -changing for

them once you identify the perfect layout for your needs we don't stop there now comes the vertical space

and design of the room and the number one

and easiest thing i recommend to my clients to achieve a cohesive looking space is through using and identifying a color palette.

This is often the ignored factor when pulling a room together.

The color palette cohesion I'm talking about looks like five or six colors spread throughout and around your space in the furniture, wall color, flooring art, small details.

This repetition of the color palette is key to a cohesive space because when we walk in a room, our brain is looking for and finding the visual connections.

With the same color showing up in the rug, the pillow, the art, our eyes able to move around the room

and connect the dots we may not even know that's what we're doing

but it's more than likely the reason we may think a room looks good

or bad easiest way to achieve a tight color palette is to start with the colors

that are already there

and aren't changing this could be the floor the trim cabinets countertops a fireplace those are all things

that count as a color in your palette whether you notice them

or not many people skip over wood tones

and neutrals as colors as they don't count

but they definitely do honey oak is a color warm white

is a color a cool gray floor is a color once you start counting what's already there you may find

that you're halfway to a palette without purchasing a single thing

yet i had a client with honey oak trim throughout her

whole home she'd been trying to design around it almost as

if it was something to hide once we treated it as a color in her palette

and added more of it in more modern ways to the furniture

and decor the trim stopped feeling like a problem and instead looked like an intentional decision that tied the whole room together.

Before I move on, I want to mention one more tip when creating a color palette, and that's making sure to have different values in your palette.

In other words, it needs to have lighter and darker colors, as well as that middle ground.

Without a contrast and gradient of the palette, a room can look flat and uninteresting, even when the colors are dispersed in the space.

When you select or identify those five or six colors, make sure there's highs, lows, and middle ground colors.

That range is what gives the room depth and dimension, and in turn, giving a more interesting and inviting space.

When it comes to our next principle, this one may be the most challenging for my clients because it relies on the relationship between things in the space.

It's a balanced principle that has to do with scale and proportion.

The easiest way in my eyes to understand this is through positive and negative space.

Negative space is the empty room, so the bones of this room, the bare walls, floor, and ceiling.

Positive space is everything that we put in this empty room the furniture art lighting decorations

but i do see windows and doors even

if they are already there as the positive space they're still breaking the facade with dimension

and subject matter a good rule of thumb is my 70

30 ratio meaning 70 positive space 30 negative for example on

a big blank wall you can aim for about 70 positive space with decor furniture lighting,

etc. Whatever you're placing on or against that wall should count towards that 70 % of positive space.

This could be achieved through a vignette of several items of furniture

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and decor or 70 % of art as a gallery wall.

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Scale is the main thing to identify with that 70 -30 rule in a room.

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Proportion has to do with positive space but also visual weight.

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A proportion mistake some people miss is a bottom heavy room.

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This is when most of the furniture and decor sits at around three feet off the ground.

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It almost feels like the space has been cut in half with all of

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that visual weight on the bottom half of the room.

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A simple fix for this is bringing positive space and visual weight up to achieve more overall balance.

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This could look like larger art, raising a curtain rod, adding something taller with more weight like a plant or bookshelf.

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We can also do this with lighting.

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A chandelier or pendant will help the positive space continue our eye up.

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With visual weight, it's more about perception rather than the physical weight of an item.

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Certain colors and materials or solid mass read as heavy or light regardless of their actual size.

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For example, a stone fireplace is visually heavy.

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A glass coffee table is visually light.

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A dark, dense armchair carries more weight than a slim wooden one.

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Proportion is partly about balancing that weight across the room so nothing feels lopsided or imbalanced.

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I had a quick consultation with a client the other day

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who recently just installed a heavy stone fireplace with floating white shelves on either side she called me

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because now she felt that the fireplace took over this entire room

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and she didn't know how to fix it

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so i took a screenshot from her facetime

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and shared my screen for a quick fix in photoshop the

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fix wasn't lightening the fireplace weight it was adding more visual

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weight elsewhere i suggested dropping a larger chandelier adding a long curtain panel on the adjacent wall

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and adding larger art for her shelves i also brought in

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heavier accent chairs in front of fireplace to disperse more visual weight

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and flank it although it was a quick visual i made

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for her on the call it shows how this room had a balance issue

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that could be fixed fairly simply with adding more weight

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and color dispersion of that new fireplace around the room that's it that's my 80 in

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that order starting with the most important space planning comes first to properly function in your space

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because function comes before form color palette cohesion comes second

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because it's starting you off with intention in your design decisions

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and scale and proportion is the last important piece to achieve a balanced space no matter your budget

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or your square feet with all three considered you're on the

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way to a designer worthy room i love helping people apply my lessons in reality

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so if you're struggling with this space stand in that room

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and run through these filters for space planning does the layout actually match how you live

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or are you working around it every day.

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Remember to ask these four questions.

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For the color palette, list every color already in the room, including the wood tones and neutrals.

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Are they repeated across the space?

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And is there both light and dark for that range and gradient?

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For scale and proportion, pay attention to the visual weight of your room and items in it.

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Is the room bottom heavy?

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Is there a big empty wall?

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Is one heavy piece taking over?

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Once you identify what's missing, you've done the hardest part.

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Now make a list of what's most practical to achieve first remember good design isn't created overnight it's a process

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and takes time

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if you'd like to go a little deeper on building a

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color palette i have an in -depth video about the how

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and why of color plus i go a lot deeper on how to build a cohesive color palette

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so watch this video next it's a crash course on color theory and how to effectively use color in your space.

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I'll see you next time.

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このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「80% of Interior Design Basics in 10 minutes」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：space, color, palette, weight, visual。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が155文、単語が2083語あります。音声の長さは10:18です。話す速さは速く、1分あたり約202語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。単語の84%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
palette 名詞	/ˈpælɪt/	パレット
fireplace 名詞	/ˈfaɪɹpleɪs/	暖炉
layout 名詞	/ˈleɪ.aʊt/	レイアウト, 設計
proportion 名詞	/pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/	割合, 比例
cohesion 名詞	/kəʊˈhiː.ʒən/	結合
chandelier 名詞	/ˌʃæn.dəˈlɪɚ/	シャンデリア
disperse 動詞	/dɪˈspɝs/	退散
curtain 名詞	/ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/	カーテン
thumb 名詞	/ˈθʌm/	親指
shelf 名詞	/ʃɛlf/	棚
dimension 名詞	/daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/	面積, 寸法
bookshelf 名詞	/ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/	本棚, 書架
certify 動詞	/ˈsɜː.tɪ.faɪ/	認証する
countertop 名詞		カウンター
facade 名詞	/fəˈsɑ(ː)d/	正面, ファサード

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
take over 動詞	引き受ける
sit down 動詞	座る, 腰掛ける

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	be addressed · are dispersed · could be achieved
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	i've spent · i've looked · has been cut

注意したい発音

話し手はyou're, don't, I'mなど、短縮形や弱形を26回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

「sh」と「zh」の音: proportion /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/, cohesion /kəʊˈhiː.ʒən/, chandelier /ˌʃæn.dəˈlɪɚ/, shelf /ʃɛlf/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: fireplace /ˈfaɪɹpleɪs/, effortless /ˈɛfə(ɹ)tlɪs/, desperately /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: cohesive /kəʊˈhiː.sɪv/, visually /ˈvɪzju.əli/, vignette /vɪnˈjɛt/, divide /dɪˈvaɪd/, vertical /ˈvɝ.tɪ.kəl/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: fireplace /ˈfaɪɹpleɪs/, effortless /ˈɛfə(ɹ)tlɪs/, shelf /ʃɛlf/, bookshelf /ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/, certify /ˈsɜː.tɪ.faɪ/

この動画での練習方法

まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。palette, fireplace, layoutなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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