Space-By-Time

We’ve all had the experience of being in a café in the morning and being able to plough right through a backlog of work and returning at night to the same spot and having a great time socializing with friends.  Places can encourage very different sorts of experiences with slight modifications and you can create multi-function spaces in your home by managing the sensory, etc., experiences there so that they vary at different times of day.

For example, a living room that’s flooded with bright cool light during the day will be a good spot to concentrate and also to exercise.  If the fixtures with the bright cool bulbs are turned off and those with warmer dimmer bulbs are turned off, your workplace becomes a mingle place.  To learn more about using lighting to create different experiences, read this article.

Scents in a space can also be varied by time of day to fine tune a place for a particular purpose.   For example, make that living room smell like peppermint when you’re working out, but open the windows to “bleach” the scents in the area before setting out to do knowledge work in the same space, this time scented with lemon.  Read this article to learn more about how scents can be used in your home or office to encourage particular mental and physical experienced.

Just as light and scents can change, so can the soundtrack of an environment, and switching from one acoustic experience to another is easy-peasy.  Play slower music or nature sounds quietly to relax or while you work and up the volume and the speed of the music when you decide to have a dance party. For more info on sound-tracking your world read this article.

You can also multi-purpose a room by effectively using views through the space.  Sitting in one set of chairs might lead you to look at relaxing colours, patterns, etc., while sitting in another might change the view and the colours, patterns, etc., to more energizing ones.

Think-by-time to manage your spaces-by-time to create the full range of environments you need to live the life you’ve planned for yourself, your family, and your friends.