Explaining the Design Process: Detailed Design Development & Documentation

You might think that all the important work is done once the Concept Design stage is completed. No – we’ve only just begun hammering out the details. During the Detailed Design Development and Documentation, we work closely with consultants like your project manager, services engineer, structural engineer, architect, building surveyor, other specialists & your builder…

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Explaining the Design Process: How I use Sketches to design your project

Hand sketches & / or sketching on my iPad is used at various stages of the design process for your project. When working on computer-aided drafted designs, it’s very easy to loose that element of creativity when you’re restricted by the design program; organic, fluid, complex or curvy designs become more complicated to get onto…

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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…

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Small Living in Style – A kitchen which is still “On Trend”

This is the second update on the design of my home.  Like many people we’ve spent the Christmas holidays doing a spring clean, clearing out the cobwebs and the old toys that the kids have grown out of.  I made a commitment to clean and style my kitchen, which I designed ten years ago when…

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