Mon 23 Mar 2009
DesignCoach answers the design question—Where do I start?
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Each Monday on the DesignQuotient™ blog, DesignCoach™ Beverly Hills interior designer James Swan answers readers’ questions. Post your design dilemma. DesignCoach ™ can help you find the solution.
This week the DesignCoach™ discusses how to start your design project.
Q: Jim, all I ever hear about on the various TV shows is walls, floors, furniture. I get that most home design problems fall into these three areas. But I don’t think about my house in that way. I think about My Living Room. My Home Office. My Patio and Deck. I want to tackle the projects room by room and solve my problems in that way. Can you tell me how to get started? And please don’t say I have to call in the bulldozers.
A: Regardless of the bites you choose to take, every project should be broken into manageable phases. If tackling your home room by room makes the most sense for you and your family’s life then there is your answer. No guilt and no bulldozers involved. As with any list of priorities they come most helpfully from asking yourself good questions and then relying on the answers to guide in the evolution of your “to do list.” Which room do you and your family spend the most time in? Which room has the least/most work to be accomplished? What funds have you allocated toward your list of priorities and how/where might these best be invested? Once you begin to answer these types of questions you will find a framework of priorities beginning to form. These will form the path you should follow in making your home a more beautiful place for you and your family to enjoy.
Leave the bulldozer behind and remodel one-room-at-a-time if that is the most manageable for you. The results can be amazing.
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