Being an interior designer I have a thing for everything matching. If I was to paint the doors, I would have to paint the baseboards too. Then I looked around the house at how many baseboards there were and lost my motivation.
Last year when we were renovating I wanted to replace my interior white doors to stained louver doors to add a bit more pizazz to the house with the look of the door and warmth with the stain. The thought went by the wayside.
We were walked around by one of the designers who showed us some of her work. She is very talented and knowledgeable and you can see by the way she explains some of the fixures very passionate about what she does.
Also at the workroom there were guys actually melting steel, hammering it, twisting and turning it, and molding it to make parts of the fixtures. I love lighting fixtures and why I had never seen this part of it I’ll never know. I guess I was to busy specifying them then to get into the science of how they were produced. That was their job. This I am understanding now, was my loss.
I have been getting pretty involved with going to my vendors events lately and I am happy I am doing this. Vendors are also taking this time to inform designers on their products properly by putting on these events.
In the past month I have been to Kallista for a presentation on Custom Showers, Kravet Furniture where they uphostered a chair in front and displayed the types of frames/padding, fabrics, etc. And as I mentioned above Hinkleys Lighting.
Business being a bit slow is giving me a chance to relearn. To put a face to a name rather than just talking to vendors on the phone. Actually seeing what it is that they do on a day to day. Realizing that always seeing them in my place of business could hamper me because seeing each little thing that goes into the job is just as important to the whole process of what they bring to the table.
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How about this for a hair salon. It is located in Dublin, Ireland. This is what happens when clients let designers run free and we get to express whats in our heads!! What an imagination the designer Garry Cohn has!!
Its worth watching!! For more info I attached a link to his site
I found this picture on a blog that I read. What a way to incorporate old and new!
This was one of Sydney, Australia’s oldest historic buildings (the mint) that was converted into a public place of business.
You can check out all the detailed information and other pictures in the attached link (Click on the Title) along with a detailed drawing of what they saved and what and where they added.
I stopped in my tracks when I walked by this shoe store.
I went to a cute sandwich shop today and they had the prettiest blown glass floral light fixtures mounted in color painted tray ceilings. The pendant lights that hung over the tables were in the shape of tulips.
I loved their slogan also “Stop and Smell the Flours” purposely spelling it “Flours” instead of “Flowers” because it was also a bakery.
It’s ideas like these that can make a simple place fabulous. Great out of the box thinking!
