Your Wish List

For me, good design combines functionality and aesthetics.

 

Something has to work well and achieve its purpose but do it with style and beauty.

 

I’ll expand more on that in another blog, however it is also relevant now when you start to write  your Wish List.

 

You’ve done all your research, compiled all the information you’ve gathered and hopefully not confused yourself!

 

Take it back to basics.  Sit down and think; ask your self those simple questions – why?, what?, how? –  and write it down on a piece of paper.

 

Here are a few questions to ask yourself to start the creative thought process:

 

1.  What do you want to achieve?

2.  How do you / your family live, interact, eat, cook and play?

3.  How do you cook?  What style? When? Who does the cooking?

4.  Do you entertain frequently and often?  And HOW do you like to entertain: casually, formally, interactively?

5.  What have you seen on your research mission that you would like to incorporate into your new kitchen if you could?

6.  What appliances do you like or need?  (Sometimes it’s a good question to ask if you really NEED some of them as well…!)

7.  What do you like and dislike about your existing kitchen?

 

As a designer, I see the process of design as a collaboration of ideas between my clients and myself and then building on them to make your dream a reality.  If you answered all those questions, you would have compiled a fairly comprehensive list.   That’s a great start to meet your designer with!