Design Project Relationships Are Unique!

​Just as each project is unique, each project‘s principals develop unique relationships, from concept through completion.  The experience of journeying with a client through all the stages of a design project is an experience that might never be repeated.
 
This special communicative relationship develops its “personality” through many stages of focused interaction.

​Factors naturally encountered on the interior design project path include, and delve deeply into, personal taste and preferences, color and light dynamics, past exposure to comfort and discomfort, bad impressions, good hopes and many other elements.
 
An astute design professional is skilled to listen, hear and translate the information behind a client’s expressions, reactions, speculations and questions.  Through the investigative stage of the creative design concept process, a unique relationship begins to form.

Preferences concerning light, color and shapes that create motion, are all matters of taste and emotional comfort zones.

​Understanding the affect that shadow or bright light or certain noise has on you as an individual, translates into specific creative paths.  Your designer gradually learns what is essential to develop a connection with you.  It happens through informative discussion, representative excursions relevant to the specific venue, exploration of various elements and the biographical insights you provide.  It all becomes part of the identity of your project, and the foundation for balance.
 
Your professional design team needs to know who you are in the context of the project; and that helps to provide a number of benefits.
 
Knowing you appropriately, relative to the project goals, allows your team to avoid irrelevant suggestions or recommendations.  It helps to keep the choices that are presented to you, ones that you will welcome and which fall into your comfort zones.   Guesswork has no place in a professionally driven process.   The right insights and information have impact on everything ‑ primarily budgeting disciplines.
 
Chances are, if you do not feel comfortable and cannot communicate comprehensively and enjoyably with a particular individual, it might not be a good match. 
 
On the other hand, when you notice ‑ right from your initial conversations ‑ that you are being heard accurately, are receiving “on point” questions and feedback and are excited and interested in it, you are very probably a good match.  Trust your instincts; your professional candidate will be doing the same.

​Most professionals are interested in good connections and good business relationships that reach beyond the immediate project.   Once a team is formed that works well and continues to grow with mutual insight and sensitivity, it is reasonable to project that if the need arises, that team will want to collaborate again. 
 
It is a good investment to do the homework of exploring the feasibility of the working relationship.   Professionals want to know that about their prospective client, and you will want to know that about the professional designer you may want to hire for your project. 
 
It should be a personal relationship investment with many rewards; however, good investments deserve a close look, an open mind, a clear assessment of compatibility and a sense of mutual trust.