Furniture that Inspires

One of my favorite styles of furniture is Victorian style furniture that has been redone in a retro style. The one above is kind of drastic, but it's beautiful and very inspiring. I love old Victorian couches that have been painted a bright pink or turquoise and made to look modern in maybe a black and white room with other random bright colors mixed in.

Inspirational Design

Tony Stark's house in Iron Man 2 is really inspiring to me. The entire time I watched that movie I was completely captivated by his house, and caught myself noticing things I wouldn't have noticed before I started school. I love the architectural work, and the design elements throughout. There's so much high technology involved as well. If I could have any house I wanted, this house would definitely make my list of choices. It's phenomenal. I really hope that one day I'm able to help create something like this.

One of my favorite buildings, mainly because I spent a large amount of time there when I was in high school, Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth. It's not an amazing architectural masterpiece, but it means something to me, and I personally love the way it looks, inside and out. It's homely, familiar and simple and not over the top. It was an amazing place to have spent so much time.

Project Spotlight

During my last year of high school, I would go to my dad's shop every day after school and work for him for a few hours doing miscellaneous chores and errands for him. I would clean the office mostly, because it always needed it having two dirty mechanics walking around in there all the time. But eventually it turned from cleaning, to re-decorating. The office was terrible ugly and really needed it. So my dad handed it over to me to do with a small budget. But, I figured out a way to do it. I painted all the walls, tiled the floor, and painted all the doors. I also bought accessories and storage space for the bathrooms. For an office in a mechanics shop, it looked pretty good, and I was praised for it all the time by my dad's customers. It was really inspiring to me. That was probably around the time that I decided I wanted to look into going to school for Interior Design.

Field Report

For this project I decided to visit Starbucks again, because I love being in there. The customers are able to move throughout the coffee house efficiently and they seem to have enough space. The employees are extremely nice and cheerful towards the customers. It seems like they could use more space behind the counter to move about, especially during their busy morning hours. A positive thing about the layout of Starbucks is that their are a variety of seating options that creates a homely feel. There's also the option to sit outside if you'd like. A negative would be that maybe they could make it a tad bit larger. Although it is a coffee house and they aren't supposed to be large, Starbucks is a really big company and they attract a lot of customers. The customers that come into Starbucks varies, but mostly it's college-aged students who come to work with their laptops and hangout with their friends, or middle-aged people who have work to do that they'd like to do outside their home. I've also noticed that people meet here for meetings with clients, such as a photographer talking to a couple I saw about shooting their wedding. The materials they use in Starbucks are beautiful. Everything is Earth-toned and homely feeling.