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![]() My clients and I develop the design together as a team, using a time-tested process that is sometimes methodical and other times fun and full of brainstorming. This highly collaborative process is key to how I work. This easy back and forth exchange of ideas prevents me from having to “sell” my clients on a look or design that doesn’t come from their own priorities. Together we explore ways to make the home exceptional within whatever restraints exist (such as space or budget limits.) We do this by meeting every few weeks until we get the design as good as it can be. We start by creating a comprehensive “wish list” at the first meeting. Subsequent meetings are all about design and sketching. Tracing paper is our good friend during these sessions. Along the way, good ideas accumulate, evolving into better ideas. We share magazine images, discuss budgets, and do things like visit the roof to see where the best views will be from the new second story. After we’ve pursued alternatives, explored tangents, and found the breakthrough ideas that make it all come together, a house, unique in all the world, takes shape on paper. I then consolidate all our good ideas into a well resolved set of blueprints that homeowners and builders will appreciate for their clarity and thoughtfulness. (Please ask builders that have used my plans about their user-friendly aspects.) |
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