Loving the Job
Koontz - Jodi feels she may have dissed the cat franchise too strongly---but I told her not to worry, I am a recent (1 year and 3 months), cat person... so as the cat partner, let me add my comments regarding being a good client.
Remodeling is an enterprise that reflects something about where a person is in their life. Certainly it reflects on the economic status of the client---being able to remodel is a luxury that not everyone can afford...(see posts regarding the DIY movement). From the professionals side of the equation, this affluence is a given, now we want to know if we can work together with you over the long haul of a remodel...so what colors our decision?
Jodi mentioned an important clue-do you have dogs? Jodi and I both have lived with and loved dogs, and though my work partner, Keith, constantly reminds me that even Hitler loved dogs, Jodi and I do extrapolate about households that don't see themselves complete without one, two or six of these furry additions. I would actually add the cat equation in here too, though Jodi is right about the diffidence and difference between cats and dogs. But the defining similarity is that as a client, you recognize that your wants don't always come first...and you may have to work around the needs of others'.
In the case of a remodel, those needs include the fact that not everything will happen on the time frame you as a client might choose or expect. There are realities to the project that you simply don't know about---the time for a designer to ruminate and come up with the best plan, the delays of suppliers, the efforts by the crew to make the "understory", (all the things you don't see), right, so that the things you do ultimately see are right.
You have to be the kind of person that is willing for things to gel, much like waiting out your kittens clawing stage, or your dogs chewing phase. You have to be a client who recognizes that there is a growth spurt to a job, and that eventually, you'll realize the potential.
And if you're a client who loves animals; dog, cat, rabbit, yea gods, even birds...then for us, you're also a client who recognizes that a real living space takes time, care and love to be all it can be...and you're our type of client.
Remodeling is an enterprise that reflects something about where a person is in their life. Certainly it reflects on the economic status of the client---being able to remodel is a luxury that not everyone can afford...(see posts regarding the DIY movement). From the professionals side of the equation, this affluence is a given, now we want to know if we can work together with you over the long haul of a remodel...so what colors our decision?
Jodi mentioned an important clue-do you have dogs? Jodi and I both have lived with and loved dogs, and though my work partner, Keith, constantly reminds me that even Hitler loved dogs, Jodi and I do extrapolate about households that don't see themselves complete without one, two or six of these furry additions. I would actually add the cat equation in here too, though Jodi is right about the diffidence and difference between cats and dogs. But the defining similarity is that as a client, you recognize that your wants don't always come first...and you may have to work around the needs of others'.
In the case of a remodel, those needs include the fact that not everything will happen on the time frame you as a client might choose or expect. There are realities to the project that you simply don't know about---the time for a designer to ruminate and come up with the best plan, the delays of suppliers, the efforts by the crew to make the "understory", (all the things you don't see), right, so that the things you do ultimately see are right.
You have to be the kind of person that is willing for things to gel, much like waiting out your kittens clawing stage, or your dogs chewing phase. You have to be a client who recognizes that there is a growth spurt to a job, and that eventually, you'll realize the potential.
And if you're a client who loves animals; dog, cat, rabbit, yea gods, even birds...then for us, you're also a client who recognizes that a real living space takes time, care and love to be all it can be...and you're our type of client.
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