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LIVING ENVIRONMENTS NW Ltd 

Design questions 

       "Points of consideration that include Art and the garden"

 

       LENW  understands that it is designing for the client.   Each client has  unique wants and needs.  and a distinct personality.   We ask:

  • What does this client want?

  • What does his/her spouse want?

  • Do they want the same things?

  • Do they know what is possible?

  • Do they know how the inclusion of the landscape will affect their project?

  • What can they afford?

  • What are their  preconceptions?

     LENW  looks at both  the house and it's surroundings before it designs a project.   We ask:

  • What do we want to see when we look out the window?

  • Is the house big enough? 

  • Does it feel big enough?

  • Can we use the landscape to make the house seem larger? 

  • Is there good physical access? 

  • Does the house make us e of natural light?

       Then we define what we want to accomplish.  

  • Given all the thing that are possible, what are the most important things for the client?

  • What changes make the biggest improvements for the investments? 

  • What needs to be done immediately.  What later?

          Only after going through all these questions do we begin to put lines on paper.  It is not the drawings that make a good project, it is the work that precedes the drawings. 

        

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