For many years, we have lived in a culture that has increasingly emphasised personal freedom and choice. Whether we refer to this as a ’liberal’ society or ‘postmodernism’, it is a real thing that can be seen throughout our society.
Postmodernism is not just about pluralistic choices related to values, identity or lifestyle choices. It is the kind of thing that inevitably impacts the design of things, from buildings and art to the way the latest technology is used. Often, these choices spark heated debate.
All of this matters because it changes expectations. In the past, a ‘modernist’ design might emphasise functionality over all else; think of the grim, utilitarian post-war architecture of Britain or, worse still, the identikit, minimalist designs used in Eastern Europe.
Translated into interior design, this would involve a lot of basic function, straight lines and minimal decoration. In other words, this is just the sort of approach that would produce a bland, symmetrical, rectangular wardrobe.
How Does A Wardrobe Planner Give You Freedom And Choice?
It is fair to say that if dull, unimaginative and functional wardrobe designs do not appeal to you, our wardrobe planner offers you a golden opportunity to do things differently.
This means you can make all your own choices about everything to do with the wardrobe:
- Its overall size and shape
- Its location
- The alignment of shelves, the use of vertical space and other internal details
- Details such as colours and special quirks
These and more elements can be established by the design you come up with, fitting your choices, needs and aspirations, not what some anonymous designer in an office far away has drawn up based on their assumptions of what you need.
If you love using technology to do new things in life, this is definitely for you. Just as these days we have more TV channels, plus the vast potential to interact or consume entertainment and information on the internet, so this tool adds to the mix.
What is more, it avoids the downsides of such developments. The internet might have its dark corners and its platforms for people in tinfoil hats, but this device is all about creating something that is unquestionably real, as you will see when it arrives in kit form.
How Does Our Wardrobe Planning Tool Put You In Control?
In addition, this is where technology gives you more power and control, not less.
Whereas sometimes tech can depersonalise things, such as using algorithms to control what media you see, or replacing human customer service providers with chatbots, this allows for the very human element of your own human creativity to be given full expression.
Furthermore, the design tool is something you can play around with as much as you like, making adjustments and amendments to your heart’s content until you are satisfied with the design and can finally declare that this is what you want.
Of course, there are limitations to the design. You can’t use anything as a material. You can take a postmodern approach, but surrealism would be taking things a bit far! Nonetheless, we still offer plenty of choice, for example, the different doors you can incorporate.
This may, for example, include the dusty pink Eclipse door, the fjord green Santana doors, or the indigo Cairo doors, each lending itself to a range of different complementary possibilities.
How Can Our Wardrobe Planner Stop You Being A Slave To Fashion?
Indeed, one of the great freedoms that comes with designing a wardrobe that fits your own vision is the way this can be blended with your plans for the rest of the bedroom.
Generally, when you read any interior design article telling you what the latest trends are, you will be told that multiple things are in fashion, so it may be easy to conclude the writer is just speculating wildly, or that there are so many popular styles that none stand out.
An age when there is no obvious dominant style contrasts with other periods, such as the 20s and 30s, when Art Deco was dominant.
This fact alone justifies taking a very individual approach to design. It really can be anything, not just because ‘anything goes’ or because fashions can change rapidly in a fast-moving world, but because this is a golden opportunity to focus entirely on your personal taste.
Lots of people love to talk about what it means to live in freedom, whether that is about democracy, free speech or just the everyday choices we make. Yet there are also some ways in which design, fashion and even technology can constrain us.
However, being able to design your own wardrobe enables you to bring freedom and technology together in the right way. Far from holding you back, this creates opportunities to design a wardrobe like none you have ever had before.
