Tag: interior design education
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Meet Jennifer: The Heart Behind Mangrove Bay Design & Lighting
This post emphasizes the importance of personal design preferences over a designer’s aesthetic. The author, a coastal design specialist, believes in transforming clients’ dreams into reality through careful listening and collaboration, creating spaces that enhance lifestyle and functionality. The goal is to craft each client’s unique dream home.
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Some of my favorite resources for inspiration and mentorship: Interior Design
Here are the Central Florida resources we lean on for inspiration, sourcing, and mentorship—aka our “design fuel” list. For day-to-day specifying, we start with trade showrooms that let our clients see/feel materials. In Daytona, the Ferguson network is our go-to when plumbing intersects with lighting decisions: Ferguson (840 Jimmy Ann Dr., Daytona Beach, FL 32117)…
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Transform Your Space: Dive into the Luxurious World of Smart Lighting Systems
Imagine stepping into a world where your home lighting effortlessly blends technology with luxury, where every corner of your room illuminates in perfect sync with your mood and aesthetic. In today’s age, luxury lighting isn’t just about extravagant chandeliers and expensive bulbs; it’s about creating an ambiance that mirrors your taste and personality. If you…
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Container Homes: Don’t get Romantically Involved with the Idea of This Kind of Stewardship.
When I created my first website 11 years ago I randomly had a request for a container home design. I dove in deep and did a ton of research. As it happened a friend of ours on Costa Rica was building some for clients down there. He called them “lightning boxes”. He was getting requests…
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The Buzz About Sconces in a Bathroom: A Better Choice for Better Lighting
I know I sound like a broken record when it comes to having a space function to its highest potential, but for most people our home is our largest investment asset, so why not make sure it gives us back as much as we put in to it. I’m getting older and with that process…
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3-D printed houses: technology and building
I read some random stuff pretty regularly. I just landed on an article from The Economist about 22 Emerging Technologies for 2022 that talks about a new process to use a giant 3D printer to build a house. Pretty incredible stuff for sure. The walls of this house are being built with a 3D printer.…
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New Codes for Residential Construction in New Smyrna Beach: an Educated Client is a Happy Client
There is a lot to know as a building designer. We do our best to have a general understanding of local codes and ordinances. The tricky part is that municipalities will make changes and not really let anyone know. WE generally find out during the permitting process when the city kicks back our plans with…
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Design Principles of Scale and Proportion: What Deserves Your Focus?
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor Vince Lombardi Design Principle of Scale & Proportion When we speak of scale in design, we speak of the relationship between space and the details within the space that define it as well…
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Benjamin Franklin: “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”
The quote in the image is something my therapist told me once. I am a people pleaser, to a fault at times. I want all of my clients, contractors and tradesmen I work with to be happy. BUT I cannot control what I cannot control. And that is a lack of planning by others. …