Design Philosophy

I grew up with a Mom who would paint a new room in our house every month and would constantly change furniture arrangements. Before I knew it I was in my room rearranging furniture once a month and constantly painting my walls and finding new bed comforters etc. It was then that I realized I was developing a passion to design rooms in my home and make frequent trips to Ikea, what seemed to be my new favorite store. It's the way you can show your style through design and have multiple inspirations that create something that I love about design.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Habitat for Humanity

 For my studio class, Sophomore year, second semester, I got the opportunity to work with the local Habitat for Humanity and help design their next project. My partner, Green and I spent 3 weeks creating a potential home for our class that was under 1,100 sq ft. and consisted and sustainable materials and built under enviromental friendly conditions.
Green and I decided to divide up the house into a public area and a private area. There are two plumbing walls (one that's the mudroom and kitchen, and the second the two bathrooms). We had a double wall construction and we kept the ceiling of the heights all at 8ft for easy construction. All of our materials that we had chosen were sustainable and cheap.
We had a great time being able to help give potential ideas to their next home and it was really great being able to work with real life clients and continually ask them questions of what they liked and didn't like.I learned a great deal about using inexpensive material but yet sustainable and long lasting as well as constructing the house in a manner that is cheap and easy.  I'm very excited to see in the next few month what the team comes up with as their final design.

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