Open Concept Broke When Everyone Came Home | Vera Blouin

Everybody wanted open concept in 2019. Then everybody got sent home.

Vera Blouin designs homes around spatial psychology, the study of how a space shapes your routines, your sleep and your relationships without you ever noticing it happening. Her read on what COVID did is that it forced a pause, and in that pause people finally saw the friction points they had been living around for years. The bedroom that was never actually a sanctuary. The layout with nowhere to close a door. Most of them went to Pinterest looking for a finish when the problem was structural.

Jeannie Sekulow Posner is an award-winning Metro Atlanta REALTOR known for her negotiation skills and her data-driven read on the local market. She brings this one to first-time homebuyers, families weighing a move, and clients rightsizing out of 3,500 or 5,000 square feet into 1,800, who assume the furniture will come with them and work. Between her Atlanta client work and Vera's room-by-room diagnostics, the conversation lands on how to tell whether a house will actually hold your life before you buy it.

Hosted by: Jeannie Sekulow Posner

Guest: Vera Blouin

Vera Blouin is the Founder and Design Strategist behind BLOU INK, a residential design studio specializing in spatial strategy, spatial psychology, and identity-driven living across Dallas, Miami, and Atlanta. With over 15 years of experience in interior design and construction, Vera explores how homes influence human behavior, emotion, and daily routines. She is also the author of The Reincarnated Room and The Structure of Space.

What You'll Learn

• Decide whether open concept fits your family or just looked good online

• Diagnose why one room in your house sits empty before you spend a dollar on it

• Walk into a smaller home knowing which furniture is worth moving

• Ask the function questions that make house hunting in the Atlanta housing market faster

• Put your home office somewhere the workday stops following you upstairs

• Fix the lighting and sleep problems your bedroom has been quietly causing

• Get more out of a small space than you ever got out of a big one

• Plan an ADU that gives a parent or an adult child independence without the distance

Rightsizing, or standing in a house wondering whether it will fit your life? Reach out to Jeannie, and we'll see you at the closing table.

Connect with Vera Blouin

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blouink.studio/

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/verablouin

Connect with Jeannie Posner

• Website: https://posnerproperty.com/

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JeannieSekulowPosner

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-posner-property-perspective/id1838544165

• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1jyB81PnXvAJ7xvoCtZZZ4

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