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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 08:01AM Design is a conversation describing a picture of your home. A home often comes with reminders of traditional gables, chimneys, pieces of Colonials and Victorians, and our grandmother's house. You bring your old 35mm snapshots of historic estates and seashore cottages. You listen and in the end find a place for the hutch, the moose head, the sewing machine, the conversations and the Memories. We have all walked through houses that only exist in author’s imaginations, sea captain’s homes, medieval castles, antebellum plantation homes. It is because they have been described to us in vivid and exacting detail.
As you and your significant other talk over the next days you will continually be creating a description. It will start with big generalities, “I want it to look like a Federal Style Farmhouse” mixed up with little details, “ I want one of those spice racks that’s built in back of the cabinet door.” So it needs to become like an old story, or rehearsed lines from a play. Build the story over days and days until you can recite it, walk thru your renovation, even if you are only recreating your master bathroom. Then it will be much easier to put your ideas to paper! 