Take Me Home

   This is the Final project for our studio in this semester.
   My project call "Take Me Home," I choose this title because of my song, which is the inspiration for my entire project. My song is called "Country Road" it is talking about a person who is in far away and want s to come back to home. So in this project, I chose the "contrast" which represent the cool and warm because I think far away means cool, and home means home, as my principle. Also, there is two more principle "Dominent" and "Movement," these two principles are also came from the song. First of all, the client of our design is a photographer with their family, and their parents. So they want two apartment at same floor. So this is one of the challenging part of our design.
   FIrst of all, the gallery in the main family's room shows my concept very strong. It is a very dominant because it is in the center of the room, it is also moving because of the form, and it is a "contrast" in the floor because most of wall is straight but it is curve so this create a very strong my concept idea. Also in the Grandparents room, I put the dominant fire place, and the moving kitchen. Moreover, the color using in my design creates the contrast between warm and cool. Mort of walls in this house is unpainted brick it represent warm and country, and 3 walls are black painted, these are the gallery's, grand parents' living, and the wall in grandparent's fire place, so these creates the very beautiful contrast.
Thus, all my design is followed my concept idea, and creates a very nice space for our clients.

VIsit professional during the Thanks Giving

During the Thanksgiving, I visited Bobbi Jean Wood who is an interior designer in Bernard | Wills Architects P, Spokane. She is a very good interior designer and their firm also very good. In this visit professionals, I brought my final project and try to get some ideas. First, I showed my plan to her, she thinks its not bad, but she want to see how the ADA works in my plan. And then, she told me we should think how people feel comfortable with your design. For example, the requirement for door wide is 36in, but it will be nice with 48in for wheel chair people. I think this is a very important things for interior designer. We need to concern how people feel, because we create the space for people.  

Job Shadowing

During the field trip to Seattle, we did the Job shadowing. I and Lue visited the interior only firm call Interior Architects (IA). Shannon who is the interior designer graduated from WSU tacked care of us when we visit IA. First things that we did for the job shadowing is, we talked with many interior designer and the manager in the IA. It is a very valuable experience for me. They told me we need to manage our time well, and how they separate work and make the work more efficiently. Moreover, after the taking with designers, we visit several place that they designed. All their design is very beautiful, all clients for these place they designed are very pleased with they design. Shannon told us, most of their project has not enough budget, so their design and furniture choose is not experience, somethings is from IKEA. However, these design is very nice, all stuff they used looks elegant. So, if we can use the cheap stuff well, it also can be a very good and important things for the interior.

This job shadowing gives me a valuable experience.