SPATIAL AWARENESS


“Successful spatial flow is a balance of comfort optimisation, efficiency and aesthetics.”


sources by locating furniture in close proximity. • Always remember what the


room’s core purpose is. For example the TV location is of course important however if the room’s use is formal it may be important to ensure that seating that best allows for people to converse and not face in one direction.


At the start of any project we


will always meet a client in the home they wish to refurbish, so that we can see how the clients engage with and react to their own homes. While we would


always respect and observe the wishes of our client, we see it as our role to also make additional proposals that might challenge them, based on our instinct as to how a space should or could be. These suggestions are informed above all by a consideration of their lifestyle. We might walk through a space and discuss where the client would want to eat breakfast or store shoes or put down their keys when they come in. We need to know the trivialities, down to which way they prefer to sit in the bath. These ideas come from the space


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