How to Make Your Home a Creative Space

Architect, author, and educator Donald Rattner is author of the award-winning book, My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation.

What colors inspire creativity? What’s the optimal lighting level for sparking insights? Why is placing your desk facing a wall a bad idea?

These are just a few of the questions my recent guest, Donald Rattner, answered during a discussion about why our homes are such a powerful incubator of creativity. In his best-selling book, My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation, the architect and educator shares 48 techniques based on more than two decades of scientific research. He also includes more than 200 images of creative spaces from top architects, interior designers, and photographers from around the world.

My Creative Space has received awards from the Nonfiction Authors Association, Chanticleer Book Awards, Nautilus Book Awards, American Bookfest Awards, and Eric Hoffer Awards. As one reviewer put it, the book provides “simple principles of architectural and interior design that, once applied, can induce and support a more inventive way of thinking”.

You can hear my interview with Donald in Episode 13 of Home Where You Belong, accessible here or wherever you stream podcasts. His book, My Creative Space, is available for purchase from Amazon (see link below), other online retailers, and in bookstores.

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