Know that feeling you get when spring rolls around and you've got the worst itch to play hooky to lay out and soak up the sun? No, I don't have spring fever (especially not with how the weather has been lately), but I have design fever. Yes, I adore my job at Saxton (and my recent promotion to "Interior Design Consultant") but I am missing the search for the concept, the freedom of space planning, the excitement of selecting colors and materials, etc. Just to give you an idea of how bad it is, I have a horrible headache, and instead of taking a nap and resting it off, I laid in the tub and sketched.... I brainstormed....and I came up with an idea. A way to keep my skills honed, feel freedom of the design process and to get those wonderful design juices flowing. I will choose one object and give myself one week to create a design around that object. Granted my job does run me thin, so a week may not be sufficient. But essentially I plan on taking this object (could be a piece of furniture, a decorative piece, a wallcovering, a paint, a carpet, etc) and create a perspective drawing (I have the itch to break out the prismacolor markers again) of a space incorporating it.
I feel like at the end of my senior year I was just starting to develop my style and my technique of presenting my ideas.... and I haven't touched anything in that same way since. I am very excited to ge this started and see how it goes.
So, for my first project, i plan on doing a space I am familiar with : home. My mom recently purchased a new bedspread for the room my husband and I stay in when we visit. The space hasn't been redesigned since I first selected finishes, bedspread, decorations back in early high school.
Here's an image of the bedspread:
My mom has already mentioned wanting my help selecting paints and decorating the room, so I figure it's like killing two birds with one stone.
Design gods, don't fail me now!
