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Remodeling: Common Sense Design Changes during a Pandemic

9/25/2020

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“Together” has taken on entirely new meanings for many of us.  The pandemic which we all share – often not too equally – has demanded that we look at many aspects of our daily life and make creative adjustments on all levels.
 
In previous articles in this COVID19 series, we have taken a hard look at how the pandemic has impacted our Interior spaces – both domestic and workplace.  We have long since accepted eclipse!  Where feasible, our business, career and/or workplace environments have experienced closer proximity than we might choose – if our communities and our country were not under attack by a persistent intruder. 
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Like it or not, we have made changes intrusive to our previous patterns and choices.  We have quickly remodeled our Interior living space, as best we could, to seek the implied safety of distancing, modified isolation and very limited contact outside our immediate, essential connections.
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Moving over at home or at work to squeeze in Pandemic adjustments can wreak havoc on serenity! Gotta be creative

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Disaster Preparedness: Nice When You Have A Choice!

9/25/2020

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​Interior Design, including trends and fads, is usually driven by artistic, circumstantial and authentic design factors – and it’s good to know that there are elements of close control involved.  And, it is nice to have choices and input, industry by industry, concerning what will drive the next trends in style, color, cultural emphasis and other nuance.
 
But, greater external circumstances can turn choice on its head and force us (to some degree) to follow rather than lead.  When pragmatism following disaster, drives change and choices, creativity is challenged; and innovation must often develop within somewhat more confining parameters.
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Unfortunately, a hurricane, flood or fire can bring the outside inside. Thinking ahead with preventive design considerations is a smart move!

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Moving Past Interior Design Limitations During a Pandemic

9/24/2020

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​That’s about as smart as shooting yourself in the foot!  How we deal with limitations largely depends on the point of view!  As with other stuff that comes our way unbidden, we each have our very own ways of coping.  I guess I was just born an incurable optimist, because, to me, this whole new list of limitations feels more like dangling a carrot in front of a horse to get it to giddy up!  It’s kind of a soft-sell dare.   As soon as the first wave of: WHAT? wore off, I started looking at everything with new, seriously critical eyes!  And, guess what?  There was a lot that could stand some tweaking!
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No one likes having their project unexpectedly stall! Everyone likes finding revisionary solutions that save the day!

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Revising Our Traditions for Home and Office in a Pandemic

9/24/2020

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Traditions are interesting factors in our lives.  Even families or businesses that might claim to not have and implement bona fide ”traditions,” probably actually do have some – possibly even many.  They might simply be masquerading as habits and procedures!
 
Whatever the preferred nomenclature, for all of us, traditions, habits and procedures are deeply implanted in our daily lives, and have been severely challenged by (first) the Pandemic; and, (second) the resulting economic impacts.
 
What happens when ingrained habit patterns (and the assumptions that go with them) become disrupted?  We get disrupted!  The little stuff is fairly easy to handle, but it’s those large, dependable patterns and practices that we don’t like to mess with – especially if all has been functioning smooth as silk.
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Meet disruptions of your Interior space – residential or commercial --with creative energy! It’s time to revise and install new traditions, habits and procedures!

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Working from Home: An Opportunity To Improve

9/24/2020

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We can make Lemonade or we can just pucker up and stay sour!  I prefer the former – and it is getting easier and easier to adapt to doing business from one’s residential address.  Little or no commute -- from the breakfast table, down the hall to the home office hardly qualifies!  And more little benefits just keep popping up.
 
I can name a few – like being comfortable in casual clothes, gas savings, and so forth.  But the biggest benefit that I have noticed, in my own situation and in that of my clients, is the benefit of the opportunity to get to domestic interior projects that have been repeatedly put off.  Sometimes it is an improvement factor that might only take 3-4 hours, but after work, after a commute and after a nice sit-down to dinner, well, who wants to start even a 3-hour project...    So...Take a look around, and think about some things you could accomplish in all that saved time! 

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There are plenty of moving parts in any room of any home! Color, light and function are always waiting for interesting changes!

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Maximizing Office Design Limitations: Hospitality!

9/24/2020

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​Just when it seems business has made enough reasonable adjustments, something comes to mind that needs revision in order to produce the desired results!   Workplace hospitality has taken a big hit.
 
Regardless of the venue, most businesses have at least one aspect that qualifies as simple hospitality.  It could be the waiting area at a pharmacy or your auto repair shop; it could be the conferencing area of a law firm or the reception and waiting areas at medical or dental facilities.  It could be the gathering of friends and associates for celebration.  If your business has any accommodation for customers or clients waiting for an appointment, a service, a product or a party, there is a huge need for some revisionist thinking.
 
In the once normal course of service or product transactions, simple provisions to make people comfortable (and reinforce the virtue of patience) are or used to be taken for granted.  Well, all that has changed! 
 
Using all reasonable space for maximizing seating in a waiting room, for instance, is no longer a goal that tests your Interior designer’s skill!  That skill is now redirected to calculating how much accommodation can be achieved and still respect social distancing!   There are serious ripple affects that come with such downward quantification.  Scheduling, for instance, is hugely influenced by how many individuals can be safely located in a holding pattern, in limited space, in a given period of time.  
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After business, we all go home! Carry the disciplines into your home – it can still be cozy and inviting!

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

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