When I begin to work with clients often they express concern their home won’t “look like them”.  It’s more than creating a mirror of their lifestyle, it’s psychologically encouraging people to open up to you and to gain their trust. In this way they will allow you as a designer to suggest ideas or a new way to look at their space. This also allows them to feel more comfortable telling you what they don’t like as well as what they do like. – Deborah Boudreau