Ever have a friendly disagreement about a color? (No! That’s not magenta – that’s purple!) Have you tried to picture how a large pattern would look on a small piece of furniture, or a small pattern on a three-piece sofa? You love red, but are you brave enough to paint the far wall of the living room that bright red you love? There’s a reason why you might hesitate; and, there are consequences if you don’t!
Transference visualization is one of the important skills your Interior Designer has – but doesn’t have the skill to magically pass it on to you! Unfortunately, trying to picture a completed Interior design vision, before actually going forward with it, presents several challenges. Seeing colors, patterns, textures and other Interior design elements in samples or images is quite different from seeing them in situ, applied and installed.
Do-it-yourselfers have often been quite surprised at the difference between what they thought would “work,” and what just did not cut-the-mustard when placed in or applied to their Interior environment. It isn’t that the colors or textures or patterns were not attractive or comfortable – it is usually more about what happens to colors and textures when they interact with light, respond to sizes and shapes and impact their backgrounds and settings.
Patterns, colors and textures change and evolve in their Interior space placements, depending on the company they keep — so to speak! Other elements interact with them, and can completely change what you had in mind and what you expected your choices to deliver to your Interior atmosphere. For example, cool colors can chill where you may have intended warmth – if matched with incompatible lighting. If the lighting choice is an incorrect partner, red can become unexpectedly (and loudly!) orange. Incompatibility of light (natural or artificial), and color choices, are high on that list of innocent mistakes.
The insight to know what works best – and right – with something else is definitely part of what can be difficult in picturing your Interior design vision in advance of taking action on your desired choices of elements. Your Interior design professional can be a welcome guide when you want to be a hands-on partner in your project. Knowing how light, color and textures interact is important.
Electronics have partnered with Interior design (as it has partnered with many venues) and has helped with the important factor of envisioning an Interior design plan, in advance. 3-D Computer Perspective Imaging has become a best friend to those of us who know what we want, but can’t quite clearly picture it in advance!
As an Interior design project progresses, it is immensely helpful to be able to envision that environment going together! With computer assisted elevation images, your Interior designer is able to show you how your choices will look, in place, in your Interior space. With that capability, you are able to make secondary choices and decisions as you see how colors, shapes, textures and placement go together. You can quite literally see yourself in the environment, and make better-informed final decisions. Confidence increases with this tool.
Every Interior design project is financially sensitive. It is important for you to know that your Interior specialist presents you with excellent ways to be sure your project will be right, will be cost sensitive and will be as you envisioned it!
Ask your Interior design professional for 3-D Computer Perspective Imaging as your Interior project progresses!
Robert Boccabella, B.F.A. is principal and founder of Business Design Services and a certified interior designer in private practice for over 30 years. Boccabella provides Designing to Fit the Vision© in collaboration with writingservice@earthlink.net. To contact him call 707-263-7073; email him at rb@BusinessDesignServices.com or visit www.BusinessDesignServices.com or on Face Book at Business Design Services.
