On sourcing,
colour and taste.
Practical notes for working interior designers, on building a library that lasts, sourcing by colour, and turning saves into boards clients sign off.
How to stop losing the products you find when you are sourcing
Twenty-five tabs, a spreadsheet, and a screenshot folder you never open. Five rules for saving products so you can find them again, with the URL, the supplier and the colour all intact.
Read →How to organise your interior design materials, physical and digital
The sample shelf and the digital record fail together, which is why fixing one without the other never survives a busy month. Storage, labelling, retrieval, and what to throw away each quarter.
Read →How to keep track of which supplier had which product
You present a sofa, the client approves it, and then you cannot remember who it came from. What to record per supplier, why measured lead times beat quoted ones, and when to cull the list.
Read →How to match a hex colour to a paint colour (and when you cannot)
A hex will get you to the right family and no further. What a hex actually is, why pigment, sheen and light break it, and the shortlist-then-sample workflow that gets a colour right.
Read →How to build an interior design colour palette (and actually keep it)
A palette is easy to choose and hard to hold onto across a whole project. Here is a way of building one that survives contact with real sourcing, and stays searchable.
Read →How to make an interior design moodboard a client actually signs off
The difference between "here are some options" and a board a client approves on the spot is rarely the products. It is the composition, the edit and the framing. Here is how to get there faster.
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