What makes a good interior designer?
There is no point having a good design idea if you can’t communicate it to the client. You are not always doing the things you necessarily want to do, but if you can still do it well for them and under budget, then that is what makes a good designer. What do you most enjoy about your job? Just getting a brief and exploring the different paths you can take. You have a massive logbook full of ideas and you may only use 10 per cent of what is in there, but the journey you go through, from making sketches and models to the final product, is so rewarding. Is keeping up a logbook of ideas the secret to your success? It is just a lot of scribble really. Most of the time you have a lot of designs that at the end of the day don’t work or are going to cost too much money, but they are good to have as a reference. Your brain is always thinking and ideas come at the strangest times. Where does your inspiration come from? I’ve done a lot travelling. Any chance I get, I trip off somewhere. I went to
