Define the purpose before you ever start designing.

Are you really thinking about remodeling?

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A ‘bigger kitchen’ or ‘new bedroom’ can mean completely different things depending on the real purpose.

A guest room isn’t the same as a new child’s bedroom. Updating cabinets isn’t the same as opening the space for family togetherness.

Purpose drives design. Skip it and you risk expensive changes and a space that doesn’t quite work.

Simple exercise: Finish this sentence — ‘The purpose of this remodel is to ________ so that ________.’

In this scenario these clients wanted to open up their kitchen and to update it and to make it more flowing, there were a number of challenges in that the wall that needed to be opened up was part of the second floor of a three-story condo that was all structural it was quite entailed to create the beam which is why we ended up with the two columns.