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Dr. Morris' blog, Inspired Settings, focuses on the psychology of setting.
Organizing Books
There are 3 wonderful ways to organize your books. Select the way you suits your way of thinking.
1. Arrange all books by the color of their spine [the side of the book] and by size. This works best for… Read »
Is Your Home or Office Fostering Perfectionism?
Is perfectionism in yourself or another getting to you? There’s good news: Feng Shui can help! Feng Shui tools give us an effective way of shifting people’s attitudes and behaviors by shifting the energy of the space they are in.… Read »
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Places in Dreams
Have you noticed that you have very different dreams when you’re sleeping in a new geographic location? People report this as a pretty common phenomenon. I suspect it might have to do with a response to the novel stimuli by… Read »
Are you using your office to inspire your patients?
I loved visiting this pediatrician’s whimsically designed office. There was an elephant examination table with pictures of elephants in one room. In another room he had a fire truck exam table. And, in the waiting room there was a tiny… Read »
Shrinking Your Shrink’s Office
“That Psychotherapy Office!”
as seen from a patient’s perspective..
You walk into your shrink’s office and you find the office has sent you off on another reverie…
The room said to you, “Sit down in your chair.”
While you remember… Read »
The Workplace: One Size Does Not Fit All
Researchers studying office design have concentrated on open-plan workplaces. Many companies began migrating away from fixed wall private offices in the 1970s because of the reduced construction and maintenance costs and the flexibility that the open plan concept offered. It… Read »
Executive Office Check-Up Reveals Fear
Think good design is all an executive office requires? Think again, and deeper: Depth psychologist puts the office on the couch and improves executives’ performance.
Dr. Katherine Grace Morris’s research demonstrated that an executive’s physical office space holds deep psychological information… Read »
The Too Big House
How can a house be too big? We have oodles of things that need a home, a desire for space so we can move about without tripping over one another, and perhaps a feeling of pride in owning a big… Read »
Kitchen Confidence
Written for Upscale Remodeling Magazine, this tells contractors how to work with clients doing a kitchen remodel.
Evaluate existing kitchens by observing the client’s use of the space.
When it comes to helping a client locate or re-locate all of the… Read »