Residential design is a specialty not unlike design for medical, retail or food service facilities, although its dynamics are very different from any other type of building.  In the case of a private home, a livable design depends especially on an empathetic collaboration between the homeowners, the architect and of course the builder.  Thoughtful communication and clearly understood goals are instrumental.  It takes not only skill, knowledge and experience, but a right intention, and a thoughtful orientation is indispensable.

“Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.”
~ Augustin Fresnel

I apply myself to listen attentively to your design objectives as a client, and also evaluate the project constraints, both obvious and latent, before jumping into a solution.  Both the objectives and the constraints need to realistically weighed in the balance with each other in order  to chart a sustainable direction for a design solution.  This almost always involves at least some amount of chaos mitigation at the initiation of the design process, and this is where rapport supports discernment invaluably;  both are requisites of good design. 

It is a rewarding process to craft a consciously conceived home environment, but one which requires not only creative effort, as well as skill, knowledge and experience on the part of the design professional, but also quite a lot of sustained attention and work on the part of the homeowners as well.  The needs, the goals and the constraints all originate from the homeowner, and a successful design process requires quite a lot of owner engagement.  Wherever a completed project is found to be a success it’s the outcome of a collaborative mutuality that is a success as well.  A key measure of the success of any home or project is that in its completed form it exhibits not only sound design principles and planning, but also that it expresses meaningfully the original vision of the owners.