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Design Interiors for Entertaining
The decorating process - Part 3: Design development stage
with AMANDA LINDROTH — Acclaimed interior designer with offices in Palm Beach, Charleston and Nassau. Queen of island chic.
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With the help of invaluable documents and project trackers provided by Amanda, you’ll gain the knowledge needed to enact your creative vision.
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Part 3-Design Development Stage
This stage is the workhorse of the whole process, and it's where you can begin to turn your creative vision into a reality with budgets and logistics.
The creative aspect of design development
It's at this stage that you should be making decisions on:
- Your final choice of furniture
- Details for upholstery – fabrics and trim
- Paint colours
Paint schedule
It can be really handy to have a document that lists exactly what paint you're planning to have and where – not only is it useful when you're decorating but it's also valuable to keep for the future in case a surface is damaged and needs to be repainted.
Design development is also about tracking and budgeting
As well as the creative side of design development, there's also the more practical aspect where you will begin to get to grips with the budget of your project as well as tracking the final decisions you've made.
I use a software called 'Ivy' for tracking orders and budgeting.
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Your Instructor
Amanda Lindroth
Acclaimed interior designer with offices in Palm Beach, Charleston and Nassau. Queen of island chic.
Evoking warm tropical breezes and dreams of sun drenched mornings, Amanda Lindroth’s colourful style epitomises the lust-worthy aesthetic of island life. Born and raised in Palm Beach, Florida, Amanda’s childhood instilled in her a love of coastal living. After stints in Paris, New York and London, she relocated to The Bahamas in the early 2000’s and set up her interior design practice in 2010, bringing her signature style to the homes of island-dwellers all over the world. She authored her debut book ‘Island Hopping’ in 2018 and launched her first homeware collection in the same year. Creating spaces for entertaining is Amanda’s speciality, and she’s a firm believer in the benefit of thoughtful, clever design for effortless and elegant hosting.
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