Decorating Genius System

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1 Decorating Genius System Video 3 Worksheet Your Design Fingerprint: Use It or Perish THE INTERIOR DESIGN ADVOCATE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

2 This simple exercise is the Secret Sauce! This is the process that allows me to design award winning spaces that completely reflect my clients specific design fingerprints never my own. Know and play to your Design Fingerprint and you ll not only be many steps closer to a great result, but you will never, ever be sold again by a well meaning salesperson, or swayed by your best friend. That s good news since your pal will be designing using HER Design Fingerprint! While you can do this exercise using on-line images, it s far easier to do when you have images printed and spread out on a table to work from. Here are the steps: 1. Pull out room images that represent spaces you feel really drawn to. 2. Working at a large table or on the floor, spread out all of your images. 3. Think like a detective now as you examine them: Look for recurring themes or patterns and answer the following questions in as much detail as you can. Color Palettes: What colors do I like (and see in my images)? Where do I like my color placed in a room? How much color do I like? Pattern: What kinds of patterns do you notice in your fabrics, floors and if applicable, wall coverings? P a g e 2

3 Where do you seem to like having pattern placed in a room (e.g. on pillows, on upholstery, at the window, on the floor, or, I don t seem to tolerate pattern. )? Style: I seem to be drawn to the following overall style: Walls: I seem to like walls that are (e.g. dark, light, textured, name specific colors): Is there pattern on the wall? Yes/No If yes, what type? Floors: I like floors that are: (choose all that apply) dark, mid tone, light. What colors are the floors? P a g e 3

4 What are the materials on the floor (e.g. wood, stone, rugs, carpet)? Is there pattern on the floor or is it solid? Is there color on the floor or is it neutral? Textures? Windows: I seem to like the following styles AND shapes in window treatments (e.g. panels, simple designs, full columns of fabric but not with much detail or fuss, pattern in my window treatments, simply treated windows, ornately treated windows): P a g e 4

5 Do your window treatments seem to be close in color relation to the wall color, or do you seem to be drawn to window treatments that really jump off the wall thanks to strong color/pattern contrast? Architecture: Are there architectural features that show up again and again in your images (e.g. millwork, lots of windows, arches, columns)? Shapes: If you look only at the overall shapes of things in your images, you see: 1) Lots of straight simple lines 2) Lots of curvy curled lines 3) A mixture of both Light: What do you notice about the lighting conditions in the rooms you re drawn to? P a g e 5

6 Do you see brightly lit spaces? Do you see moody, shadowy spaces? What kind of light fixtures do you like? Shapes, sizes, colors Sense of Space: What do you notice about the room images you ve pulled as far as your craved sense of space: Images that are really packed and cozy spaces? Rooms that have areas of rest or nothing in them? Space overhead with high ceilings? What do you seem to be drawn to? P a g e 6

7 Design Fingerprint Final Worksheet Now consolidate and transfer all of your answers onto this single worksheet. I suggest that you 3 hole punch this summary sheet along with your room images and place everything in an Images section of a 3 ring project binder. This little sheet will keep you coloring in the lines! Project Name: Date: Color: Recurrent Patterns or Themes: Style: Walls: Floors: P a g e 7

8 Windows: Architecture: Shape/Line: Light: Sense of Space: P a g e 8

9 GENIUS NOTES AND THOUGHTS (use this section for general notes on this video): P a g e 9