Walls, closets and hallways
All three present many choices and opportunities — but are sometimes just dismissed as utilitarian only, or not candidates for creative energy. Wrong!
Closets are famous for stockpiling almost anything — some things working their way so far to the rear that they are soon forgotten. It's so easy to close that door and move on to something more urgent, promising oneself to get to thinning and order…later. Home or office, the dilemma is a shared one!
Hallways (if wide enough) may become appliance and miscellaneous hideouts, handy, but creating an obstacle course! Incentive to see a hallway as a creative Interior design opportunity can depend on width, on where one starts and where it leads. “Just put it in the hallway for now” is a refrain familiar to all of us.
Walls share similar assumptive considerations! Is it the walls of the living room of a residence, or the walls of a business reception area, or just the walls in the “back rooms?” It is nothing new for Interior design professionals to encounter sadly design-neglected walls with offhand treatment (or no design consideration at all) in residences and commercial Interiors.
There are two quite distinct Interior design project approaches where opportunities abound for Walls, Closets and Hallways!
If your Interior design project is about re-do or refresh of existing Interior space — home or business — it's a chance to undo as you re-do! Your Interior design team knows how to rescue inefficient space use, overburdened space, uninteresting wall space and missed opportunities for partnerships of beauty and function.
On the other hand, if your Interior design project is for a new Interior environment where options abound, it is a whole different ball game! Wishes for convenience, function, accommodation and beauty can be indulged in the very important planning stage. With your Interior design team, you will explore possibilities that may not have been implemented (or even possible) in a former Interior environment.
Space use planning, that is relevant to your specific business identity and functions, must take all of the available space into consideration — even the so-called hidden ones such as Closets and Hallways. And, your plan should maximize the creative design opportunities that Walls present in every area of your Interior environments.
Closets? Well, the potential is great! Large closets have been known to become tiny, efficient workspaces in this era where all the furnishings needed to store equipment and files have become unnecessary with the advent of sophisticated electronics and compact technology! And if all that is wanted is really just organized and efficient storage, your Interior design team has closet solutions you may never have dreamed of!
Hallways can remain unglamorous passages as one moves from one place to another, or beauty and innovation can be added to their presence; it's your call! Hallways are parts of our Interior environments that can be wonderfully transformed with creative lighting, well chosen favorite art pieces, ancestral and family images, narrow shelving or textured wall surfaces that lend depth and intrigue! Lighting is key for bringing our hallways into the company of what they adjoin.
Walls treatments, wherever they occur and whatever Interior space they embrace, can quite literally make or break the intended integrity of a specific space in your Interior design plan! Do they sweep dramatically to meet high ceilings? Are they angled by alcoves or snuggled by dense furniture, with their feet tucked by warm, delightful carpeting? Whatever their companion Interior design elements, they beg serious consideration that moves beyond only favorite hangings that might fare well in the other room!
Your skilled Interior design team knows how to marry the elements best meant for each other — indeed! It is not unlike a beautiful, loving relationship with color, light, texture and form in a harmony of beauty and function!
Walls, Closets, and Hallways unite! Help is on the way!
Robert Boccabella, B.F.A. is principal and founder of Business Design Services and a certified interior designer in private practice for over 30 years. Boccabella provides Designing to Fit the Vision© in collaboration with writingservice@ earthlink.net. To contact him call 707-263-7073; email him at rb@ BusinessDesignServices. com or visit www. BusinessDesignServices. com or on Face Book at Business Design Services.