Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Collecting for Cortez

This week at Chango & Co. was especially hectic, but also especially fun. Grace and I were given our first big assignment -- to create furniture layouts for the Cortez family, and also select furniture, paint colors, wallpapers, rugs, lighting, and accessories. We started this project by recreating their drawn up house plans on CAD and putting in new walls and taking down old ones (decisions that Susana made on the rough drawing). From there, we started creating multiple furniture layouts for the living room, the dining room, and the master bedroom. We printed out our suggested layouts and started picking out possible pieces that would fit the space, as well as the design concept. This house is located in Long Island right on the Hudson River, and the whole interior is encased in massive windows with beautiful views of the water, the bridge, and the city of Manhattan. Susana said she wanted to go for a lake house/river house feel, so we should be looking for furniture and colors that compliment that style. After collecting some pieces and fabrics, we laid them all out on the table and Susana went through all of the choices and said what she liked and what she didn't like. We created a color pallet of sea-foam greens and blues and beiges, and decided on some wall coverings for the entire first floor and the master bedroom. Susana came up with an amazing concept of covering the whole first floor with a textured linen wallpaper of pale sea-foam green and surrounding the interior with beautiful sheers on all of the windows. We had a couple more rounds of presenting Susana with more items and fabrics that we chose, and settled on a final scheme and a ton of different options of furniture to present to the client. We will be visiting the Cortez family this week to go over our final picks, and hopefully settle on a scheme! Although we will unfortunatley not be able to attend the installation of the Cortez house because we will be back in Athens, we are so excited that we got to play such a huge role in designing their house.


The fabric, wall paper, and paint swatch scheme that Grace and I put together to present to Susana

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