Take a minute to look around you. Doesn’t everything seem to be moving faster than ever? When you drive to San Antonio, the city’s edge is closer than ever, it was only yesterday that Boerne seemed like it was far away from the big city. Now, it’s engulfed. Things are growing at high speed all around us, and it’s happening everywhere across the state of Texas.
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The Old Stone House studio renovation is coming along. It has been a lot of work and we've put a lot of sweat equity into the project, which has been really gratifying. We have spent many dirty hours pulling out old insulation and wiring, hand scrubbing the old steel roof, and sorting through remnants from past occupiers of the building.
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Continuing on with our theme of more personal reflections, I'd like to share with you another significant event that has happened recently in my career as an interior designer and resident of Fredericksburg, Texas.
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We are excited to share with you a project we've been working on that marks a big step in the life of Slaughter Design Studio. We are getting our own building!
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The Slaughter Design team and I are just wrapping up our adventure to the High Point Market interior design show, and I am inspired.
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Over the past few years, much digital ink has been spilled about the pandemic and many blogs have begun with words to the effect of, "covid has changed everything." While it may even be becoming cliche to say it, it really is true, and we are only at the beginning of seeing how those changes will play out in our lives.
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Have you ever heard of synesthesia? I hadn’t until I met a young man who had the remarkable experience of hearing music when he saw a color.
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There is a poetry to good design, but good poetry doesn't start with a blank sheet of paper and every word in the English language. You can't write a poem by randomly flipping through your dictionary, dropping your finger on the page, and grabbing whatever words it falls on.
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Think back in your life to special moments, holidays, birthdays, celebrations, reunions, moments of profound laughter, meaningful glimpses of your life. Most likely, the kitchen was somewhere nearby.
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Look at any piece of fine impressionist art. From ten feet away, it’s a unified image that’s beautiful, flowing, seamless. Oftentimes the subject matter appears clearly, glowing in the softness of the painter’s use of what some consider to be broad brushstrokes. The point is, you see it clearly, simply, the unified image.
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We know ourselves only in context. We can only know others in context too. We’ve spent a lot of valuable words on this idea of deeply knowing people. But then there’s the question of taking what we learn about ourselves and others and translating it into a framework for actually producing the structure. Bringing the dream into reality. What works well and what is the end result of this “style” of involvement?
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There’s this common intermingling between the title of “Interior Designer” and “Interior Decorator”. It’s a fair confusion because part of an interior designer’s work is, indeed, to decorate, filling a space with items and furnishings that capture the essence of the architect's work and complete the finishing cohesion that is so iconic to a well-designed home.
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When asking questions and listening to someone, all we are looking to uncover are those small diamonds of truth that can carry consistency through a thousand small decisions. A tight, meaningful, and rich design concept is what sets a unanimous and agreed-upon heading for the course of a home’s lifespan (which is far longer than just the initial project)
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Not just anyone will do. That’s a fact of life, and a baseline rule of design. When you are looking to make something feel special, to create a singular emotion that is shouted by thousands of small details, a chorus of tight harmony; you need to understand how the pieces fit together.
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We’re vocal about this whole concept of taking time to really know a person. We have our own catalogue of questions that we ask every new client, it’s our chance to begin opening up all those little hidden opportunities to express personality and history through design.
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This isn’t something Texans are forced to experience like those who live in other states. Here, it requires intentionality and intense “observance” in order to create that dynamic and festive seasonal cycle.
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We're still hard at work, bringing people’s reflections into their spaces. However, we’re all working remotely for now, just to stay safe!
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