Design is a Conversation
Design is a
conversation describing a picture of your home. A home often comes with reminders of
traditional gables, chimneys, pieces of Colonials and Victorians, and our grandmother's
house. You bring your armfuls of old 35mm snapshots of historic estates and seashore
cottages. You listen and in the end find a place for the hutch, the moose head, the sewing
machine, the conversations and the Memories.
We
have all walked through houses that only exist in author’s imaginations, sea
captain’s homes, medieval castles, antebellum plantation homes. It is because they have been described to us in
vivid and exacting detail. As you and your
significant other talk over the next days you will continually be creating a description.
It
will start with big generalities, “I want it to look like a Federal Style
Farmhouse” mixed up with little details, “I want one of those spice racks
that’s built in back of the cabinet doors.”
As you build your description it needs to become like an old story, rehearsed lines
from a play. Build it over days and days until
you can recite it, walk thru your dream home. Only
then should you attempt to put it to paper. You
may be surprised how much easier it is!
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