JOURNAL
EVERY HOME BEGINS SOMEWHERE
MOST PEOPLE START WITH PINTEREST. WE DON’T.
It’s easy to collect inspiration. The challenge is knowing whether those ideas belong in your home. Before making design decisions that are difficult to change, take a step back. Consider who the home is for, how it will be used, and what isn’t working today.
Your answers shape the decisions that follow.
Planning takes up more of a home renovation than most people realize. Before we can recommend a layout or propose an interior design, we first need to understand how you live. Where will you spend most of your time? Who will share the space with you? What does a typical day look like?
Those answers shape the layout, storage, lighting, and countless other decisions that follow. Only then do we begin to design.
This is particularly important when renovating an existing home. A developer’s layout may look straightforward on paper, but the way a home works in practice can be very different. The position of the kitchen, dining area, storage, lighting and electrical points can have a significant effect on how the space feels and functions.
An interior designer becomes valuable when those decisions aren’t clear yet. Our role isn’t simply to choose finishes or furniture. It’s to help you ask the right questions, explore the possibilities and resolve the decisions that are hardest to change later.
Many people think planning happens naturally during construction. In reality, construction depends on decisions that have already been made.
Before renovation begins, the layout, lighting, electrical points, materials and built-in carpentry need to be considered as part of the larger design. Changing these decisions once work has started can be costly and disruptive.
If you’ve already resolved the layout, planned the lighting, finalised the electrical points, selected your materials and know exactly how the home will be built, you may not need an interior designer. What you need is someone who can build it well.
Most homeowners, however, aren’t looking for someone to execute a completed plan. They’re looking for someone to help them create one.
For us, interior design begins before the first drawing. It begins with understanding the people, the property and the way the home needs to work.
Every home begins somewhere. We think it should begin with the people who call it home.
