On Architect designed interiors…Why?

YOU LOOK AROUND YOUR HOME AND know it’s time for a change- ditch your dorm room furniture, part ways with grandma’s dining room, strip the formica from your now grown kids’ bedrooms. Like many of us in today’s DIY era, you decide to take on the project yourself. After all, how hard could it be to buy some furniture for your own house? Who could possibly understand you and your family’s design and spatial needs more than you?

SO, YOU SURF THE INTERNET, BUY MAGAZINES, ask advice from your artsy friends. After hundreds of hours in front of the computer, eyes watering from staring at HOUZZ.COM for hunderds of hours on end, you throw your hands up in frustration. Who could make sense of these choices?

IT’S TIME TO BRING IN A PROFESSIONAL, you decide. SOMEONE to help you sort through the myirad of options for your home.

MAYBE IT’S TIME TO HIRE AN ARCHITECT.

Wait a moment you say, AN ARCHITECT? But I’m not tearing down any walls. I don’t need any building permits. WHY? I can hire a decorator or interior designer for a price…

The answer is that ARCHITECTS ARE THE ONLY PROFESSIONALS IN THE DESIGN FIELD THAT UNDERSTAND BOTH EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR SPACE. IN addition TO LOCAL AND STATE BUILDING CODES. WE ARE LICENSED BY THE STATE, complete CONTINUING EDICATION RE-LICENSING EVERY 3 YEARS AND OUR PRACTICES CARRY LIABILITY INSURANCE.

WE SPECIALIZE IN 3 DIMENSIONAL SPACE, FORM AND FUNCTION, ARCHITECTURE STYLE AND MANY OTHER DESIGN SPECIFICS. WE ARE TAUGHT TO USE THE CONCEPT OF “THE BIRD’S EYE VIEW”, WHICH CAN BE IMAGINED AS SEEING A GOOGLE EARTH MAP AND ZOOMING IN, UNTIL EVERY DETAIL UNFOLDS, MUCH LIKE A SUCCESSFUL FILM. WE ARE IN THE CREATIVE PRODUCERS – we hire all the necessary personnel necessary for executing our vision of a space, based on the characters who will inhabit it.

IN MY 30 YEAR CAREER, MY EXPERTISE HAS BEEN TO LISTEN TO THE CLIENT AND ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS. WHEN ASKED WHAT “STYLE” I DESIGN IN, MY ANSWER IS THAT I DONT’ HAVE ONE. YET, I HAVE BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS OF MANY PROJECTS AND THEY ALL SEEM TO SOMEHOW CONNECT TO EACH OTHER. BUT, MOSTLY, THESE SPACES ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THEM. THEY ARE THE ONES THAT LIVE IN THEIR “INTERIORS”, NOT ME. BECAUSE THEY HIRED AN ARCHITECT LIKE MYSELF, THESE SPACES RELATE PERFECTLY TO OTHER ROOMS IN THEIR HOME AND TO THE OUTSIDE. 

I KNOW IN MY MIND, THAT I PRODUCED A PERFECT FILM FOR “THEM”, BEAUTIFULLY PHOTOGRPAHED WHICH FLOWS FROM SCENE TO SCENE.