Adventures in Interior Design

Never in a million years did I ever think I was going to do interior design work. Heck, I graduated with a graphic design degree for christ's sake. Why the hell would anyone trust "me" the graphic designer to embark on such an endeavour? Low and behold this would be my next project from the months of August 2011-June 2012. It was a very long and painstaking process, but man have I learned a lot along the way.

The goal of the Norco lobby remodel was to transform the previous drab colors of the walls and furniture to the beloved school colors, blue and orange. The intent was to make the space more integrated with the "look, feel and goal" of Boise State University, and to ultimately make it more welcoming to students and patrons of the facility. Of course blue and orange aren't my favorite colors, but this is what I had to work with. I was lucky enough to work with super awesome people along the way. Sara from Crowell & Company: http://www.crowellupholstery.com/ and Niki from Office Pavilion: http://op-dundas.com/about_us. Crowell & Company did an excellent job with the re-upholstry of the furniture and the quality of their work was impeccable. They schooled me on furniture and even rebuilt one of the styles of chairs to make it more durable, at no cost! Love them!

The project finally finished up on Friday, June 29th and I immediately went out for drinks afterwards to celebrate! The pictures below show how everything turned out. I'm pretty happy with it, even though I'm not a fan of blue and orange.

In the meantime I will be working on more interior design projects. I'm the jack-of-all-trades I guess.. Stay tuned kids!

First floor lobby

 Higher elevated chairs were added to provide height and dynamic to the space. Steelcase chairs, Office Pavilion tables and Momentum fabric.

 

Two-tone chair - half Momentum fabric and half vinyl

Second floor lobby

Momentum blue vinyl and Momentum fabric solar pattern

Custom Health Services rugs