Well, we're in the home stretch! Over the last 10 months we've been looking at the 10 different principles that make up the ideas behind PrairieMod. The last Principle of the PrairieMod Lifestyle is its most important one: The Principle of "Uniquely You". One of the greatest strengths of the PrairieMod Lifestyle is its acknowledgment that everyone is uniquely individual.
Frank Lloyd Wright knew this, and so each of his designs was intended for a particular site and client without compromising his overall principled philosophy of living. If you study his USONIAN designs you will see that each is as different as a fingerprint and meant intuitively for the people they were built for. The First Jacobs House is completely different from the Hanna “Honeycomb” House. Yet Wright's underlying set of core Principles are constant throughout every building he designed. That philosophy is what sets these homes apart from others that are built merely to capitalize on greed.
Inspired by Wright’s insights, the PrairieMod Principles were also developed with the same flexibility to allow people to integrate them in a way that is intuitive and natural. Each person should find a unique way to interpret and apply the Principles when they examine their core values and beliefs—not ones based on fads, not based on what the media or advertising sells you, and not based on what your neighbor or friends are doing. It is the right of every person to be able to experience a home that uplifts their spirit and makes their life more meaningful and beautiful for having lived in it. Find what is unique about you and then discover ways you can express those characteristics in your individual home. All this month, we'll be looking at specific examples of how homeowners achieved unique and principled living environments and what it meant in their everyday lives. Until next week!
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