Designing Intimate Spaces for Modern Living: FURNISHD Studio’s Approach — Transcript

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1. 0:00I'm Emma. I'm an interior designer at
2. 0:02Furnished Studio based in Melbourne,
3. 0:04Australia. Our practice is focused
4. 0:06mainly on residential interior design,
5. 0:09ranging from styling and furniture
6. 0:11curation all the way to full service
7. 0:14projects and fit outs. We've got a team
8. 0:16of about seven people at the moment,
9. 0:19which is growing really fast, which is
10. 0:20exciting, you know? So, we're all
11. 0:22designers. It's really collaborative and
12. 0:24yeah, everyone's kind of had an input
13. 0:26[music] on the studio which we're
14. 0:27working in. So our process I guess is
15. 0:29always started off with just having a
16. 0:31conversation with the client really
17. 0:33understanding what they need and what
18. 0:34they want to get out [music] of the
19. 0:36space and I think like the more detail
20. 0:38that you go into that the more you can
21. 0:40really get out of the project and make
22. 0:42sure the [music] brief kind of fits the
23. 0:44end goal. I guess one of the most like
24. 0:46unique [music] things about residential
25. 0:48interior spaces is how personal and
26. 0:50intimate they are. So I guess our main
27. 0:53goal in designing and what's central to
28. 0:55our design process [music] is kind of
29. 0:57this commitment to highly personalized
30. 1:00design kind of depends on our process.
31. 1:02We um you know branch out to different
32. 1:05tools depending on kind of what's
33. 1:06required and we've implemented using
34. 1:09rayon this year which has been amazing.
35. 1:12We're also on camber which is [music]
36. 1:14kind of similar to rayon. They really
37. 1:16work well together and being like
38. 1:17completely online virtual hubs for kind
39. 1:21of documenting and presenting. [music]
40. 1:23I think we're all kind of across it
41. 1:25using like a little bit from each.
42. 1:28Really depends on the project. We're
43. 1:29working on a project now where um
44. 1:32there's three or four of us kind of um
45. 1:36in the team editing the floor plan and
46. 1:38stuff and that's where Ran's been good.
47. 1:39So we've made a document and everyone's
48. 1:41kind of editing it as we go and getting
49. 1:43live updates from it. I'm working on a
50. 1:44project at the moment which is kind of
51. 1:47like a [music] renovation project of
52. 1:49mid-century house which has been amazing
53. 1:52trying to like honor that um original
54. 1:54design style as well as kind of bringing
55. 1:56it into [music] a more contemporary um
56. 1:59style that's kind of keeping up with the
57. 2:01times. [music] Um so it's been really
58. 2:03fun and got a lot of creative freedom
59. 2:05with that. Our clients [music] are very
60. 2:07trusting. Um, which has been a really
61. 2:09fun part of the process and [music] it's
62. 2:12been really fun kind of getting like
63. 2:14really explorative I guess in the
64. 2:16[music] concept phase and then being
65. 2:18able to like translate that and starting
66. 2:20to see it come to life as well. [music]
67. 2:22We started using it this year and the
68. 2:25transition I think was pretty smooth for
69. 2:27our team [music] kind of considering the
70. 2:30user interface and elements really
71. 2:32intuitive especially with our team who
72. 2:34have that kind of previous knowledge of
73. 2:37all these softwares. I think like that
74. 2:39background [music] makes it really easy
75. 2:40for everyone to pick up. So that was
76. 2:43kind of like a really good starting
77. 2:44point from it. And then [music] I guess
78. 2:47as our studio is still young too, we've
79. 2:49had to be quite adaptable to improving
80. 2:51our processes and we work in quite a
81. 2:54fast-paced environment. And so one of
82. 2:56the key things for that has been needing
83. 2:59to like keep things up to date and
84. 3:02making sure everyone's across it so one
85. 3:03person makes a change. You don't have to
86. 3:05kind of go back and resave documents and
87. 3:08supersede everything. So Ron's
88. 3:10definitely helped in that regard. And
89. 3:13also just collaborating and working
90. 3:15[music] live at the same time. We can
91. 3:16kind of flesh out ideas while everyone
92. 3:19kind of jumps in and [music] has a
93. 3:21chance to kind of manipulate floor plans
94. 3:23or kind of help visualize parts of the
95. 3:26project [music] that we need to further
96. 3:28explore. It's alo been good in
97. 3:30presenting to clients. [music] I guess
98. 3:32it's been a good tool in being able to
99. 3:35mock up things really quickly and being
100. 3:37able to copy and paste [music] like
101. 3:39however many iterations of things you
102. 3:41need and I guess in that sense it's
103. 3:44quite playful and explorative and
104. 3:45[music] some of the other softwares
105. 3:47think that's like so timely and kind of
106. 3:49so dense on your computer that it can
107. 3:52lose [music] that element of
108. 3:53flexibility. Another thing we actually
109. 3:55use around for a lot which has been good
110. 3:58is when we're doing furniture curation
111. 3:59being able to download existing CAD
112. 4:01files or DWG files online and just drop
113. 4:05them into our existing models has been
114. 4:07like a game changer. [music] I think the
115. 4:10speed of doing that on Rayon's interface
116. 4:13kind of beats any other software that
117. 4:14I've used. So it's almost taken over for
118. 4:17me the need for like Illustrator.
119. 4:18anything that I would probably open up
120. 4:20in Illustrator. I feel like I can kind
121. 4:21of cheap in rayon pretty well which is
122. 4:24good. So we often [music] make like
123. 4:26custom designed rugs and stuff and
124. 4:28that's something I would usually kind of
125. 4:29get the print for in Illustrator and
126. 4:31I've pretty much yeah um solely started
127. 4:34doing that on Rayon. Got one arriving
128. 4:36probably end of November, start of
129. 4:38December that I designed on Rayon.
130. 4:40Hopefully it's going to be here. It's
131. 4:41like a 3x4 me rug. So it'll be really
132. 4:43cool to see something translate from
133. 4:45that digital platform into real life.
134. 4:47That's always like one of the most
135. 4:48exciting elements of the process. Our
136. 4:50projects are all so different. [music]
137. 4:51Really depends. We have, it's probably,
138. 4:54well, I know this isn't the best way to
139. 4:56do it, but we've even just got like a
140. 4:57random page that [music] we dump
141. 4:59everything into and then like copy it
142. 5:00from that page to the working document
143. 5:02that we've got. Um, which works [music]
144. 5:04pretty well for us cuz our projects are
145. 5:06so personalized all the time. You don't
146. 5:08end up using kind of the same blocks
147. 5:10unless you're kind of drawing up the
148. 5:11base plan and um, putting in those
149. 5:13architectural elements. A lot of the
150. 5:15products that we use, obviously we try
151. 5:17and use different products in different
152. 5:19projects. So you'll kind of be
153. 5:20downloading like fairly different
154. 5:23brands, designs. So I found so far, I
155. 5:26mean maybe as we kind of build that up
156. 5:29and we can drop them in there, but so
157. 5:30far I've found it's kind of always going
158. 5:33from the supplier or brand website and
159. 5:35bringing it in.