Establishing Your Boundaries

March 16, 2008 Planning for home design No Comments

The important thing to establish at this stage is to establish exactly what room you have got to play with so that you can make the most of its potential. Do not be disheartened by the apparent lack of space: Knowing your boundaries is the first step towards being able to work constructively within them. With a house or apartment, you need to be able to imagine the outline clearly before you can work out exactly how to use the space within it and start building up your own picture of colors and furnishings.

It is also important to bear in mind that having too much space can be problematic as having too little. Deciding how to furnish a cavernous warehouse is daunting because you don’t know where to start. Having a clearly defined space from the outset will help you to make initial design decisions by reducing the options so that you have fewer choices to make.

Try to forget the existing furnishings and instead look for the potential of the space. Do not be put off by unsympathetic wall colors and shabby carpets, and learn to distinguish between permanent fixtures and things that can be changed. Built-in storage is useful, but can be removed if it is not needed, and it may be much more effective somewhere else instead.