“Somewhere between the dream and reality, where everything is possible!”
In my practice, “Living Large” is the phrase I use to describe a project that lives like it has more square footage than it does.
I logged on to Facebook the other day and found the above quote posted by a long-standing friend of mine. I immediately commented that I knew the feeling..
Taking a trip can either be an exercise in how to get from point A to point B in the quickest manner, or an exploration of the road less traveled. I find myself more likely to take the latter approach lately.
Every Wednesday during the school year, I pick my older son up from a school built in the mid-1920s. It is a wonderful old multistory brick building, complete with lots of cast stone trim, tall multi-paned windows, tiled-wall halls, and a great plastered proscenium arch and balcony in the auditorium.
An interesting phenomenon over the last few years has been the resurgence of interest in the small house.
Design is a transformational art. For this Designer, it is also a process that is circular rather than linear in nature.
