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The Soul of a Space: Interior Designing with Emotional Intelligence

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Design is more than aesthetics - it's a human experience. Emotional intelligence in interior design is about considering how people respond to a space and using that understanding to construct spaces that repair, uplift, and inspire. As we encounter more complexities in our day, our homes, offices, buildings, and public spaces must not only function - they must feel. When design works in the emotional realm, it transforms a house into a home, a room into a memory, and a building into a narrative, says Sonali Ashar, Creative Director and Principal Designer of Sonali Ashar Design.
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1. Design as Dialogue:

Interior design at its highest level can be understood as a form of unspoken storytelling, one in which emotion and space are engaged in a perpetual dialogue. In an increasingly temporal world, what remains is the power of space to move us. This emotional response is not by happenstance it is developed with emotional intelligence. But designers like Sonali Ashar get that design is about feeling, not just form and function. Her spaces do more than merely please with their design; they speak to the user on an emotional level, having created individual sanctuaries that comfort, energize, or inspire based on the user's emotional need.

2. Empathy as the Base: