A living room without a couch? Sure. A fluorescent red and purple decorated dining room? If that's what you like. How about designing a bedroom without a bed? Of course, if it makes you happy.

Decorating a home, according to Manhattan-based holistic interior designer Robin Lennon, should be a unique and personal experience, and she says there are no wrong or right guidelines to follow.

The concept, Lennon says, is understanding--even cherishing--the difference between a house and a home. In her recently released book, Home Design From The Inside Out: Feng Shui, Color Therapy and Self Awareness, Lennon, a longtime Costco member in New York, reveals ways to use sight, sound, smell, taste and texture to create sacred and luxurious spaces in the home. The book also teaches conscientious decorators how to use Feng Shui--the ancient Chinese art of placement--and color therapy--how to discover what hues make you feel most at home--to help remove the obstacles that can prevent you from achieving harmony in your life and in your home.

"I think many people suffer from what I like to call 'inner homeless ness,' or alienation within one's surroundings," Lennon tells The Connection. "It's important to look inside yourself in order to know what you need outside for your home environment. It's a process that's different for everyone."

The book outlines step-by-step methods and various exercises to show people how to know themselves better. "Everyone has their own unique sense of style, but many people don't trust their own esthetic sense," she says. "I encourage people not to put limitations on themselves and on their homes. They can be anything they to be."

In her role as interior designer and teacher, Lennon encourages her clients to get back to the dreams and wishes they had when they were younger--the little things that really mattered but were forgotten along the way. Every home, therefore, should be unique like a fingerprint, for only in the depths of one's character can its expression be found.

"Interior design is perceived as a visual experience, but it's not visual," Lennon explains. It should be perceived as 'life design' instead of interior design. I believe we can be nourished by our home. It can rejuvenate you and be highly, highly personal. A home can help you have the rest of your life."