Developing room composition skills does not happen overnight. You do not magically become good at understanding proportions, balance, space, and focus. Instead, you need to engage in a series of small exercises to improve your spatial reasoning skills. A lot…
It can be challenging to share work, especially when you don’t feel like it is anywhere near completion, but in spatial design it is often necessary to share work in the in-between stages. This is because you can still make…
The early phase of environmental design is exciting, but progress usually stalls shortly after it. In the first rush of initial sketches, almost everything seems new because you’re still learning to see spaces anew. But after some time, you start…
A blank floor plan can feel strangely heavy when you are new to environmental design. There is so much to decide at once: mood, movement, proportions, furniture placement, materials, and lighting. The easiest way to get lost is to treat…