How A New Floor Plan Can Save an Old House

Imagine you have lived in your current home for many years, and although your home has ‘good bones’ it just isn’t working for you anymore. Where do you start? You know the areas that do not flow properly, but you don’t know how to adapt the floor plan in a way that is both functional and beautiful.

This is the perfect client for House Redo. With just a few photos of your current house, a draft of your floor plan and in some cases a survey, we can conceptualize a plan that will transform your house into the perfect home for your changing needs.

How do we do this? We use a method known to every designer called the creative process. In its simplest form the creative process involves four steps preparation, incubation, illumination/evaluation and implementation. At a very high level, here’s an explanation of each phase:

Preparation: This phase starts as the working stage where you gather information. 

Incubation: In this stage you mull over ideas and brainstorm.

Illumination/evaluation: This stage you make connections between your ideas.

Implementation: In the final stage you transform your ideas into a final product.

Now let’s look at a recent project at House Redo.To start, we asked the client to share their goals with us, specially outlining each room. The client came back with photos and areas of improvement for the following:

• Office space - open to a different use

•  Master bedroom - need an ensuite bathroom

•  Kitchen - would like an island and a wider doorway if possible. 

By sending us photos of all the spaces, we were able to also look at a broader list of changes that the client hadn’t even specified. One of the best parts of conceptual design is that the project can be done in phases. If it only makes sense to do one piece of the renovation, we can start by focusing on that specific area first. It is not an all or nothing solution, any variation of the concepts can be implemented.

Next, we define and develop our ideas based on these client goals as well as other objectives we have identified, and turn these ideas into visual concepts that can be presented.

Finally, we share these concepts with the client. The creative process is the simplest method to achieve results that both incorporate the client’s needs as well as address any issues that may not have been obvious.

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