When working with our staff architect on a client's custom home plans, it's always a fun challenge for me to "channel" my client's wants and needs and then to realize those concepts into palpable architectural plans. I never allow a project to be quoted by our staff contractor until every material detail is specified out on paper (to avoid future change-orders, time delays, etc...). So those plans really become our Bible throughout the process.
Once we get the go-ahead to build, I begin an interior design scheme. Ideally on the day that construction is completed, we are ready to install all furnishings. The process from ground zero to a finished product is about 3-18 months depending on the scope of the project. But what is consistent with all my projects is the absolute love I have in seeing a client's reaction to their new home.
That "TA-DA" moment is priceless to me and makes it all worth while. We can conceptualize with 3-D plans, fabric samples, paint fans, tile samples, and wood finishes. But it's never the same until you are actually standing in the space.
So I got a kick out of this German Heineken commercial because although it's obviously exaggerated, there is a lot of truth in showing what is important to different people...and of course the challenge is heightened when they live in the same space. It's a puzzle to make it all work out for everyone, and this commercial made me laugh because it reminded me of a similar circumstance I had in designing a master closet that would accommodate the wife's shoes...and the husband's baseball hats.
