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Ultimately the designer’s job is to provide a design that the receiver likes and can make his own. This is a skill. It’s taking on the viewpoint of the person you are designing for. You have to look from his point of view when you are selecting and putting together...

Sketching is the best way to work out a design. My sketches are loose and messy but they are usually for my own use – to make sure all the parts and pieces I’m choosing are working together. I can throw-out what is not working at this...

An interior design should communicate a feeling or some kind of message. With line you have so many ways to say something. Any lines you use should match the mood you are trying for. Take a look at how many things have lines – the carpet pattern? your Venetian blinds?...

To integrate does not mean everything has to match. By definition (transitive verb) 1: to form, coordinate, or blend into a functioning or unified whole: unite, to bring together into a unified whole. It does not mean everything all the same colour or that you can’t...

When a designer can easily see a better space, a better arrangement, or a better flow, it’s based on his professional design ability. It’s based on talent, but more importantly a gathering of knowledge of what is good design. It’s my secret...

A professional can execute and complete a project. A design enthusiast can appreciate good design but has very few techniques evolved on how to execute.It’s no secret that a professional interior designer makes a career commitment, has many hours of applied know-how,...

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A design can bring people together to enjoy the fruits of their labour and share with one another.A well designed space will nurture good habits in the family and the children by allowing them to help and work together to prepare good...

When you look around your community and see that it has many artistic and creative individuals and their products you can be rest assured that that community is thriving. A community void of artistic creativity is not thriving. Artistry can be in its architecture,...

Everyone is different, each person has their own unique “vibe” or tolerance for motion and pattern. Therefore the tension or the stillness of a space is determined by design choices which will communicate the client’s unique outlook.Therefore I do not design for self...

It may be a no brainer to some but if you have experienced a loss or a shock one of the best ways to overcome and shake it off is to go somewhere that has good design. When my kids were small it was IKEA and then it was Los Angeles and now it’s just a walk around the...

I am satisfied we have completed the design stage when I have looked through my client’s eyes, it’s all laid out and is garnering appreciation. The design is not built at this point but the work is appreciated and the client is ready to carry...

Have you ever enjoyed the predicable rhythms of drums or waves? Rhythms are in architecture as well. The structures we live in should have elements that repeat through out or carry you from one area to...

High quality kitchen design is achieved by first knowing all of the rules in planning, building, interior design, lighting and selection of materials. Proven methods and techniques can be learned cold so that a designer can strive higher than that and bring about...

I love it when I see the clients have settled in and have added their things and personal items, everyone comments and it looks like it all belongs. That comes about from a tight collaboration between the designer and clients. Ideas and discussions during the design...