Planning your Bathroom Design
Why use an Interior Designer for your bathroom design project? In most cases, bathrooms have a very significant impact on the resale value of your house. A bathroom with a wow factor is as much about investing in your asset to improve the value of your house as something that you can enjoy in the […]
Common Design mistakes people make when building or renovating their own home.
Like many professional Interior Designer’s, I’ve done the hard yards working on residential and commercial projects, as well as designing my own home. It’s been lived in, knocked about, and I’ve been locked in when the handle fell off the front door! 1. Misinterpreting room sizes and area on plans We went for a standard […]
Creating a Business Lounge – How to give your clients the VIP treatment
An accounting client asked me recently why I design offices and Airline lounges; they are quite dissimilar sorts of projects. To me they’re not, as often my clients are one in the same; I’ll be in the midst of designing their office in Melbourne and they’ll discover that I was the chief designer for the […]
How to make your Co-working space your own
The rise of Co-working spaces are one of the most exciting and innovative movements I’ve seen in corporate and workplace design in recent years. As a new twist on the activity based working & hot-desking that lends itself neatly to entrepreneurs, sole proprietors and small companies, it provides all the benefits of larger support structure […]
Walk West 2017
Thanks to everybody who donated and supported myself and family during the Walk West 2017 fun run. This is what I do when my daughter asks to participate in a fun run for her birthday! It’s not too late to find out more & make a donation here supporting the new Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s […]
Creating a Workplace that reflects your Vision – Part 3
Inspiration Series Nº 3 YOUR BUSINESS HAS SOUL Imagine having a business that reflects the culture of your team, and enhances all of you best qualities, and where working together is easy and enjoyable. As I mentioned a previously, I love working with small business. Each company is sort of like an extended family (and […]
Creating a Workplace that reflects your Vision – Part 2
Inspiration Series Nº 2 CREATE A MOODBOARD & SHARE YOUR VISION Do you have a clear visual image of your goals? Think of how focussed you’ll feel when you can picture exactly how your Vision looks. Start simple with a collage to solidify your ideals in your own mind, and which you can then […]
Creating a Workplace that reflects your Vision – Part 1
Inspiration Series Nº 1 THIS IS YOUR VISION Like me, I bet you have a Vision of your business. You spent all that time imagining, massaging and perfecting your “Unique Value Proposition”. It consumed you, it fired your Passion. You may have a Manifesto. I always loved that word: a public declaration made to the whole […]
Creating a Workplace that reflects your Vision – Introduction
Introduction THIS IS YOUR VISION As you sit here reading this remember that when you started your business, you had a Passion, a Vision for the future, and you Focused wholeheartedly on that. You where, and still are the heart of your business. Do you remember that Vision? Do your clients & staff know and feel the excitement […]
10 Ways to save on office space for your Small Business
Finding a suitable space or tenancy for your small or medium business can be a challenge. If the tenancy you already occupy is perfect in all but space, there are strategies you can consider to plan ahead to create an ideal office design for the long term. Your business needs to squeeze in all […]
