Chronicles of a Not-So-Newbie Interior Designer: Concept and Design


Initially, I had no real idea of what I was going to do. The only thought I had was, "No typical Asian red and no ornately carved Chinese furniture."

• Went to Home Depot and picked out 20 swatches of paint. Loved the green and that's when I had a "Eureka" moment. Bamboo! It's the coolness of that color and the linear qualities of the bamboo are what I'm after.
• Did tons of research on furniture every free moment I'm not working on my real job.
• Completed the floorplan. Figured out how to create it to scale on Photoshop.
• Went to the fabric store and found swatches that matches my palette. Everyone was "ooh-ing" and "ah-ing" over my palette of fabric.
• By Tuesday, the room is completely designed in my head, down to the accessories, but I still had to do a concept sketch and I haven't done a perspective drawing in years. My meeting with the client is on Weds. Yikes!