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Here we are again with studio projects… The second project was Furniture placement. We were given a floor plan of a one bedroom apartment with certain requirements like, what we should have in the bedroom, and how many people should be able to seat comfortably in the main living room arrangement. I saw the light in the end of the tunnel. I mean, you know when you learn a bunch of things and they finally starting to make since. That’s what happen to me. After all the stuff we have learned we finally had a project that really is all about Interior Design.

The classes were fun, we had pinups and were commenting about each others work. It helped on several levels. First of all, we could hear other people opinion, things we may have not seen otherwise. Secondly, we practiced our oral skills which by now I realized were the most important tool for an Interior Designer. And the final thing is, that the instructor got to know you, your opinions better, and it also helped your grade .

The only things that some of my class mates had problem with, were scale, and clearances from the wall to the sofas for people to pass and things like that. After we decided on the winning floor plan we had to ink it on vellum or marker paper (I strongly suggest vellum, marker paper tends to bleed). and after everything is inked you need to shade it, but only the furniture, no floors, no counter tops, only furniture! And of course again presentation is very important.

Diving right to the third project, which was all about color and getting to know the D&D building. The purpose of this project is to be given a color and work it in to two different harmonies which we learned in class. One of the harmonies would be for the living room of project 2 and the other would be the bed room from the same project. I got Yellow-Orange, and thought to myself, hum, this is an easy color plus it’s pretty, it’s a win, win situation. NOT… I learned that there it no such thing an easy color. In addition we had to work in more colors… And it wasn’t only about the colors, it was also about pattern, “Do this pattern go well with that one?”

It took me many trips and a lot of samples to get the job done. And in the end of this project it was worth every second.

That project and the ones before were preparing us to the final fourth project. But, all combined plus added preasure. Stay tuned to find out more