The choices a designer makes for their own facility speak volumes. In the case of House Sprucing, a firm located in North Dallas, Texas, that does both residential and commercial design, their taste is on full display in their office and retail showroom.
For an in-person service business such as a fitness studio, customer experience is everything, making the elusive element of atmosphere an important part of design. Atmosphere in the other sense is a significant design factor if the business requires humidity, high heat and good indoor air quality.
The best renovations go beyond restoration or renewal and try to achieve enhancement. That’s what Richard Gay had in mind for the Helendorf River Inn, a half-century-old property in a little faux-Bavarian village nestled in the forests of Northern Georgia.
Although many brick-and-mortar stores have been squeezed out by online buying, Sabrina Nishjima was convinced that her Sacramento, California, neighborhood could use a new bookstore. She envisioned a modern, inviting retail space, not one of the dark, musty warrens of yesteryear.
When the Italian Kitchen restaurant in Vancouver, British Columbia, lost its lease, owner The Glowbal Group decided to move the restaurant down the street, into a site vacated by another restaurant. Monica Jeffers, of Monica Jeffers Interior Design in Squamish, British Columbia, says the new location’s existing design had become “tired and dated and sad.”
