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Whether you are building new, renovating, or moving, some or all of these services will be applicable for your project. We’ll maximize the value of our services by assisting you to select what will best oblige your needs and your project investment. Should you require additional services, Expressive Environments collaborates with architects, engineers, contractors, and real estate agents to achieve the best possible product.
For most people unfamiliar with the project divisions and codes set forth by the AIA (American Institute of Architects), the following list of services is a bit simpler than the true architectural organizational terms. FUNDAMENTAL PLANNING AND INTERIOR DESIGN
As-built Drawings: Even if you have the blue print plans for your space, there are construction tolerances and field-related circumstances that keep any building or space from being built to match the plans exactly. We will field-measure and draw plans for your existing space so that moving forward the planning will be accurate.
Programming: Call it “initial approach” or “game-plan” if you will. Together, we discuss what you have, what you need, what you want, and what is required to make it come together. We compile the data develop a strategy.
Site and/or Plan Selection: If you haven’t already acquired a new space, we can help you select or develop a space based upon the criteria identified in the Programming phase so that you can feasibly achieve your goals and enjoy the maximum potential benefits with a minimal expenditure of effort.
Schematic Design and Space Planning: Broad scale space planning for new construction, remodeling, or tenant fit out includes defining the sizes and locations of rooms within an overall space, how they inter-relate with each other, and how they relate to the adjacent environments. At a more refined level, decisions such as wall, door, window, fixture, and general furniture placement are made.
Interior Design, Detailing, and Specification: Once the basics have been firmly established, we develop the more refined details of the interior space such as ceiling details, lighting and electrical plans, HVAC plans, millwork details, cabinet selections, finish trim package, fixture selection (toilets, tubs, etc.), security and convenience systems.
Finishes accentuate and refine the personality and style of the space. These selections cover the floors, ceilings, walls, cabinets and countertops, equipment and fixtures. We enable you to make choices that fit within the budget, are appropriate to the style of the space, are suitable for the intended end-use of the space, and fit well within your value system.
FF+E (Furniture, Furnishings, and Equipment): While these are often grouped together as a budget category, the equipment should be researched and specified during the design phase as it impacts building systems and other design factors.
Furniture makes interior space livable. In short, these services include, lay-out, design, selection and specification, and procurement. We can custom design furnishings and rugs to suit special requirements or desires, select furnishings to compliment the space and exhibit your style, and establish specific furniture placement so that form and function are of equal value.
Furnishings are items such as marker boards, tack boards, rugs, and other items related to furniture but not defined as such.
Equipment includes appliances but also refers to the system requirements for various bulding systems such as HVAC (Heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning).
Artwork + Accessories: These are the crucial finishing touches that personalize your space. Via alliances with other related industry trades, we offer a wide array of services to select and install artwork and custom framing, lamps and accessories, custom soft goods such as window treatments and bedding, and indoor plants.
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SPECIAL SERVICES
Peer Review: Expressive Environments is hired by and hires other designers and architects to practice responsible design on behalf of the clients. It is usually helpful to have a third party independently review a plan, a set of documents, or even the fabrics to be used in a large project to be sure that everything is in place, accounted for, and properly documented and communicated. This practice ensures a smoother project flow, fewer errors and omissions, and a happier client.
Relocation: For most people, moving is a hassle. A new space means new conditions that insist upon change. We’ll help minimize the stress of moving by formulating a game plan for placement and reorganization of furniture, rugs, and accessories in the new space. We’ll work with you while the space is being built, is still empty, or is still filled with other people’s furnishings to envision the new space as your own, to plan for and implement basic, broad spectrum changes like wall color or floor finish to establish your style and compliment your furnishings before you move in. We’ll even get you unpacked and organized so you can get back to life as expeditiously as possible.
Rejuvenation: Recreate your space on a tight budget. We’ll remodel your interior using your existing furnishings and accessories, both displayed and hidden. Making simple changes can make a bold impact.
Home Staging: Ready, set, sell! We’ll help you optimize your sales potential using proven design strategies geared toward basic public appeal, points of interest, and special features.
Model Homes: Increase sales potentials of new property development by providing potential buyers with a true sense of scale established by interior furnishings. Empty rooms make it more difficult for prospective clients to imagine the design potential of a space.
Holiday + Event Décor: Whether holiday or celebration, nearly every event has a theme, and for each of these, there is an appropriate décor. Indoors and out, a celebration is more enjoyable when provided the right environment to set the festive mood. Event decoration may not be your strength. Or, you may too busy with the other event details. Perhaps you’re simply too busy with life and work to deal with it. Whatever the situation, the show must go on, you want it to be flawless, and we can help.
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We’ll manage the vast array of details, some often overlooked, that will make or break a deadline.
Planning + Scheduling: Is your deadline reasonable? Sometimes the answer is, “No.” We establish the project goals and requirements and devise a sound plan for implementation. We’ll show the inter-relation of specific events that will keep things on track or forewarn you of unavoidable delays. Construction and move management are rarely perfect and smooth processes; they often require finessing to account for those changes that will surely arise.
Furniture Scheduling + Coordination: Plan for the inconveniences that will make the end result worthwhile; at times this calls for temporary accommodations, or at least patience. We’ll work hard to minimize the negative impacts of coordinating furniture with construction scheduling making the transition as comfortable as possible.
Move Coordination: Planning for, staging, and supervising a move is a time consuming process. We can lessen the frustrations with on-site management and direction for the reorganizing or packing, shipping, and receiving processes so that you can make the transition without the inconvenience of working through your weekend or taking time off of work to handle such an undesirable task. We focus on you, our client, so that you can focus on yours.
Furniture Installation: Similar to move coordination on a smaller scale. Whether new furnishings are being added, removed, or reconfigured, we will be on-site to work with the movers or delivery company staff and help ensure the safety, respect, and care for your space and furnishings to produce a quality end product.
Progress Meetings: We understand that keeping you informed helps to ensure your comfort levels with any project. Regularly scheduled meetings, by phone or in person, will keep you up to date about the progress of the project, the field-related decisions to make, and changes to be made to keep things on track. Last minute meetings are sometimes required to address items that may have been unknown during the planning process. [Top]
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