​Finding our way through new and unfamiliar circumstances has all of us rethinking old assumptions, and considering how to revamp.  This new situation demands that we go back to the drawing board.  We may not yet know exactly how extensively we will have to modify our Interior space use, traffic patterns and procedures, but we definitely know it’s a must-do that will test our flexibility.
 
Interior design projects have very clear-cut situations that mandate or inspire change.  There’s the “wanna” factor and then there’s the must do circumstance!
 
Today’s new happenings are pretty much a combo of those two rationales – with a few more thrown in!  To begin with, we often surprise ourselves when forced to make sudden changes to our entrenched “norms!”   Often we discover – by default – better or more efficient ways to handle some things.

​Forward.  That word has a nice ring to it!  Whether we are ready to move forward with an exciting Interior Design project, or looking forward to this terrible Pandemic finally receding, forward thinking is where we should focus our positivity!
 
We are all on the same page when it comes to revising the way we are doing business (for the duration), and many of us are finding that some of our Pandemic related innovations might just stay in our strategies when it’s all over.  (Nothing wrong with looking for some benefits out of all the hassle!)
 
Communication innovation is in the forefront!   For one thing, it has presented the interesting twist of speaking with clients, friends and family from the relaxed environments of homes!  “Good Morning!  Just got back from walking the dog! Your timing is perfect.... about that purchase order...” 

​Even in more “normal” times, there is a lot of preliminary preparatory work that has to be done before an Interior design project can get underway.  In the face of imminent crisis, with a Pandemic raging through communities, it’s difficult to hope; it is difficult to try to see over the tragedies and into a more manageable future.
 
But, we all know that is just what we must do: look to the future, while managing a difficult present.    I do what I can, myself, to keep that reality in mind, and press on.  Those of us in business must improvise, innovate and press on.  Many small businesses are holding on and weathering this situation as best they can.  Some, unfortunately, may not make it back to commercial health; let’s cheer them on and spread the hope around.  When this is behind us, let’s rally around them and support them back into a fair competitive position.
 

There is never a shortage of grief when disaster sweeps through a region, leaving normalcy in the dust.    Disasters – man made or natural – seize temporary control of lives and circumstances.  Whatever the plans might have been, they have involuntarily been changed.  At the very least, they have been drastically delayed.
 
In situations where complete loss of property exists, the impacts of such loss are great; and, all of the fail-safes that businesses and homeowners have previously set in place must come into play. 
 
For some, however, such preparation may not have been an economic option.  Many have been set on a disastrous path of great loss with bleak prospects for regaining stability, any time soon, without the benefits of insurance and other protections.
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