Step 1: Envision
This is where you leave all preconceptions behind.
Rather than starting with a shopping list of products to buy, you start with a vision.
When you get clear on exactly how you want to feel in a room, all of your design decisions will fall in line. And when you have a few adjectives describing the feeling you’re after, you get to decide how to interpret them in terms of color, material, texture, etc.
This is the step where you dream big. Sure, you may not be able to replicate Versailles, but if that’s what conjures the feelings you want to have, we can pull aspects of that dream into reality. (Yes, even aspects of Versailles)!
How We Get There
First you come up with a description for the feelings you want to have in the room and why. Click below for the worksheet you can download and use that will walk you though the brainstorming process.*
Next you’ll do an assessment of what’s working and not working in the room.
Then you’ll create a mood board to wrap up this step within the Slow Style Framework. You’ll choose photos of colors, materials, textures, objects, motifs, memories, etc. that represent the feelings you’ve outlined. These ideas are the building blocks of your design.
* You may need to have a conversation with other people you live with regarding their vision for the room! The goal, of course, is to reach consensus about how the room will be used, by whom, when, and how.