Officially called Construction Administration, CA is the management term for everything after a project goes out to bid and is then being built and/or furnished. I don’t ever remember my teachers spending time lecturing on – or even mentioning, CA really. Maybe it was just over my head at the time, but I would have …
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Idaho or Bust
I spent most of the day on the road today. Just under 8 hour of travel for a 2 hour meeting. The journey was for a meeting with our client BYU-Idaho in Rexburg, ID. We met with the GC (General Contractor) and their sub-contractor, and BYU-I to discuss the millwork for BYU-I’s new housing project. Anderson …
Human Resources, a TIDLIC
“TIDLIC”: Things I didn’t learn in college. There are SO many things that I do each week that I had no clue I would be doing when I was studying design in college. I have been wanting to come up with a way that I could capture them for my record and maybe for others …
Furniture Design Competition
For me product design has always been an interest. I love designing things on a small scale and thinking through all the specific parts and pieces. Looking back, if I knew what I knew now I would have probably gone into product design instead of Interior Design. But luckily most of the guiding design principles …
Ni Hao
86 hours later I am home exhausted from a work trip to China…That is 6 days gone – 28 hours to get to the city I was in and 33 hours to get home. You are correct, that means I had my feet on the ground less time than I had my feet in the …
Wood Panels and Crystal
Today one of our Clients came in and we reviewed a couple contractor submitted samples for their project: Wood Panels and Swarovski Crystal links…quite the combination. First the panels: Our specifications and drawings call out for a wood wainscot through much of the building. The wood species for the project is mahogany. Because our wainscot …
Why Another Interior Design Blog?
Good Question. There are a lot of them out there, showing quite a range of content. But to my knowledge there isn’t one like this. Most people are familiar with Job Shadowing; an individual following around a professional for a day or so, gleaming all they can from the profession. It is often recommended to …
Design Shadow 