BUILDING A HOME OR A HOUSE OF CARDS?
A lesson in Technical Design

Wikipedia defines Interior design as “a multi-faceted profession in which creative and technical solutions are applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment.
The interior design process follows a systematic and coordinated methodology, including research, analysis, and integration of knowledge into the creative process, whereby the needs and resources of the client are satisfied to produce an interior space that fulfills the project goals”

Interior design transforms the mundane into extraordinary through a creative process combining art with technical analysis and production.  A “decorator” offers color and furniture selections.  A designer merges sustainable structure with functional aesthetic architectural art.

When you hire an interior designer you are asking them to reach beyond the possibilities you have been able to conceive.  AND you want them to be able to make it happen in the most beautiful, timely, and cost effective manner possible. The coordination of these talents is the difference between your complete satisfaction and a mess. 

A house of cards will look intriguing for a moment or two but when it falls in, you have to pick up the entire box of cards and start over.  Unless the “bones” – yes, like the bones in our body - are right in a space, the home will always lack in something.  Architectural and structural elements create the perfect background to which refined details will be the art pictured by the client.

Hire a designer who coordinates every element of your Project.

Conceive a concept with your Designer. Tell them your goals.   Have them articulate the design concept through technically correct, architectural drawings of your space.  Approve the design concept and direction.  Estimate and approve the budget.  Ask for a time line for the work to be done.  The Designer will then begin to put the pieces of the intricate puzzle together to achieve the outcome you desire. 

A Technical Designer must be

·         Part Artist - never losing sight of the finished art, the budget or the timeline

·         Part General Contractor;  knowing what to do and the ramifications of a bad decision

·         Influencer and Great Communicator – so that sub contract trades and the general contractor work together to achieve the best result according to the design direction. 

·         Part Psychic in order to foresee changes and hold-ups of each element, trade, material selection, AND be fully accountable for the successful outcome of the entire project.

We all have good ideas, and each sub trade on a project will do their best to achieve the desired outcome, however one person must coordinate the efforts and complications of three-dozen trades and material elements to ensure the finished product is what YOU ordered in the first place

 
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