(Lena)
The site visit was scheduled for ten in the morning.
The client was a woman named Patricia Lawson who had bought a four bedroom house in Buckhead and wanted the entire interior redone before she moved in. We had been in the planning stage for three weeks and this was my first proper walkthrough of the space with her contractor present so we could talk through what was possible and what wasn't before I finalized the design plan.
I got there a few minutes early and stood in the empty living room with my notebook and looked at the space.
This was the part of the job I loved most. Before anything was decided, before the paint went up or the furniture came in, when a room was still just walls and light and possibility. I could see things in an empty room that most people couldn't. I
