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Your Important Internal Marketing Team

1/5/2020

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​Many businesses – maybe most – couldn’t sail the ship without their Employees.  Aside from their specific functional responsibilities, they are your basic, everyday, from-the-inside-out, fully informed Marketing team!  You can bet your bottom dollar, whatever the climate and culture of your business operation is, it’s being revealed and marketed by those (on the inside) who know.
 
Considering your staff of employees, independent contractors and other “internally focused” professional resources (your Team) as your frontline promoters, is serious business.  It stands to reason that enhancing their daily experience in your business operation’s environment should be a priority.  
 
Your expectations of your Team, of course, begins with making sure those expectations match up with what you provide in order for them to meet those expectations!  The appropriate tools and equipment for each expected function need to be enhanced with other basics.  How is your work environment; actually?
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A quality environment for your Employees, Staff and Contractors when they need a break! You can do it yourself, hire an Interior space-planning expert or make it an employee project. Just do it!

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Those Beautiful Bones!

1/5/2020

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​Remember that funny song from years ago?  ... the Head bone’s connected to the Neck bone, Neck bone’s connected to the Shoulder bone, etc., all the way to the Toe bone!  It was a kind of humorous tribute to what connects to what, and the importance of an underlying support system.
 
That simple reality is just as vital to commercial and residential structures as it is to the human body; everything’s connected to something else – or else!   It was never a mystery what held up barns, lodges rustic cabins and other more utilitarian structures; their “bones” and all their “connections” were right out there, bold and visible.  You could even say their visibility was additional reassurance that all was well built and ready to meet any test of whim or weather.
 
However, in more “other” buildings – private homes, formal businesses or professional offices, the discipline was to hide all that beam-and-pipe stuff!   Get all that plumbing, air conditioning, support beams, electrical and heating paraphernalia out of sight!  Along with that goal, as more sophisticated systems were developed (such as large ventilation and AC ducts) ceilings were lowered a bit more -- to accommodate the “hiding” process!

The “bones” were not to be seen!   Well, except for shellfish, Armadillos and one or two other creatures, skeletons are pretty much “interior” networks!  And housing?  Beavers and birds would be the exceptions.   The structural aspects of modern human habitats and workplaces were basically built to be unseen.
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Functional, structural elements are bona fide aesthetic interior design elements. Ask your Interior design team to do the magic!

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When Small Delivers Large!

1/5/2020

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​New building construction rarely presents the Interior designer with mysterious, very small areas with no obvious intended use.  Usually, driven by budgeting and efficiency strategies, every inch of planned space has to justify its expense by purposeful use, compatible with its contiguous space elements.
 
However, “older” buildings (residential or commercial) often have odd little spots that can be baffling!   They may be little left-overs from a remodeling focus that simply forgot what was on the other side of the wall, or part of an alternate intention that just didn’t happen!   In any case, such situations crop up all the time; and, over time, your experienced (sometimes frustrated) Interior design team just digs into their bag of “micro solutions” and handles it.

​Turning very small niches into useful and or aesthetic gems makes the difference between dead space and good use.  Sometimes, such spaces occur along traffic patterns in the larger environment.  We have all experienced them, although we may not have noticed them.  And that’s one reason why your Interior team actually likes such spots when they occur, and creatively transforms them
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Microenvironments offer delightful opportunities to capitalize on the magic of Color and Lighting in small transitional spaces.

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    Robert Boccabella, B.F.A., Certified Interior Designer

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