The process of designing a home is an
evolution from macro concepts to
micro solutions. At the outset, a designer
focuses on a client's patterns of movement,
behavior, and other "lifestyle"
input that determines the living spaces
and occupant flow. But once you've settled
on these larger issues, the real puzzlesolving
begins. Now you have to stuff
the client's "can't live without" walk-in
closet next to their "must have" makeup
mirror and simultaneously try to accommodate
the "wouldn't it be nice to
have" Zen view window. Many times it
becomes a fight for square footage and a
struggle for inches.
In my 20 years of designing bathrooms,
jockeying for space has occupied
more time than all the other
design