25. Overwhelmed By So Many Styles?
In other words don’t worry about the style until you work out the message.After you work out the message the style comes easily.
24. Flow is the Movement of the Users Through the Space
Though it sounds elementary – so many spaces are not designed for a good flow. Even a small space can be well planned to have good flow. The best way to work out a flow is to draw out a plan then trace the basic flow of the users through the space doing [...]
23. Great Spaces Large or Small Have Life in Them
Well designed spaces are only complete once the users are there in the space living and working. In other words it is the life in the space that completes the beauty.Add life to your space with well planned areas for people, pets and plants.
22. Every Colour Scheme Exists in Nature
If you pay attention to the colours in nature, you’ll see unlimited ways that colour is combined harmoniously. It’s a the perfect inspiration, wide open and free for everyone.
21. How Do You Make Colours Harmonize?
The first thing you have to do to find colour harmony is to find the KEY colour, that is the largest colour in the room that you can’t change. For instance you have a blue bathtub and you just can’t change it but you want a more modern look. Blue is the KEY [...]
20. Why Not Take the Easy Way?
When someone wants me to design something “simple”, I’m never wanting that to mean easy. Simple is brought about after you work out the design correctly-only then can you make it seem simple or easy.“Easy” is usually the worst thing to go for because it creates shoddy products and poor quality things that [...]
19. What Is More Important Than Perfection?
You can drive yourself silly trying to have the perfect room or the perfect home or perfect hair! In this interior we worked with the existing side board and the client added a new in expensive dining set and carpet. Because all the planning with the right colour scheme was figured out ahead [...]
18. Which Rules Should You Never Break?
My head was all cluttered as I fled the studio. Proposal after proposal was getting rejected. I was flustered and felt betrayed by my “education” especially in historical design. Or more likely I didn’t pay enough attention to historic design. But later I went back to college and studied Art History — hard.What [...]
17. Can you have more than one focal point?
The client presented me with a three sided fireplace she planned to put in the room to divide the living and dining areas. Although it was a great idea, the fireplace as a focal point, is too small to actually be THE focal point. A more dominant focal point was needed to ground [...]
16. What is Wrong With This Design?
When I presented this headboard to the client, it had all the elements she wanted, a focal point for the room and place to provide comfort for her and her hubby. But what I did wrong was the introduction of a diagonal diamond shape in the button tufting. Although it matched the traditional [...]
