Category: Interior Styling

As the editing of the photo could only be done by two people due to workshop sizes I wasn’t the one who was nominated to do it. This is because there were people in the group that were more tech savvy than me and had the editing programs on there laptops already.

Here are the finished Edited Photos which I am so proud of I think they look amazing and my group members have done such a good job.

Reflective Statement

Over the course of this project I feel that I have learnt so much about the industry, the process and most of all interiors!

Working in a group made up of people from all different disciplines can be so interesting as you get to learn how other people work and their subject area. However, this can also cause issues and disagreements as being artists everyone has strong opinions and wants things done to their taste. I found this difficult at times as being a textiles student I love pattern which my group weren’t so keen on. I found that as group overall, we worked really well on things with on slight problems which we overcame on the way. As a group we struggled with deciding on final ideas as we just had to many and I think nobody wanted to make the final decision.

I believe that our final set really fitted in with the trend that we were studying and our client persona. I feel that we were brave and bold in our colour choices which paid off as the colours all complimented each other so well.

I found the process in which we gathered and collected our resources difficult to start with as I just couldn’t see us finding what we wanted or being able to make items however I was really surprised with how well we did with getting all the paint delivered finding the wood for the shapes and the shelves and all the props.

Putting the set together was a really fun process when we saw it for the first time it was such a pleasing feeling that we created our vision. The process in which we actually took the photo with the photographer I found really frustrating as there were so many ways you could change the look and tweek things to make it look perfect. It amazed me that when you look through the camera it looks completely different to when you look at it in person.

Overall I have really enjoyed this project and I feel that it has opened my eyes to a different side of interiors that I wouldn’t have seen before. I would definitely be interested in doing projects within this subject area again as I enjoyed the challenge.

Tuesday was such a busy but exciting morning as we got to shoot the final photo of our set. The process that you under take to get the perfect picture is very long and almost frustrating as you have to keep moving and adjusting everything. Just when you think it is perfect there is something else that needs to be adjusted and changed. Although i didn’t necessarily enjoy the long process i understand completely why we would do it as if you look at he first picture and we took and then the final picture they are completely different and you can see that all those changes we made were defiantly worth it.

I am looking forward to seeing the final edited image.

Thursday

On Thursday we spent the morning putting together our presentation and finalising everything. Our project has come together so nice and neatly and i am very pleased with the process and out come.

TUESDAY

Week three was by far our busiest week so far, on Tuesday our group divided allowing us to get lots of things done. Some of us helped out with putting up the boards for the sets, others painted the chair and then Harleigh and myself got started on working out how we were going to cut out the shapes that were going up on the wall. We started off by getting thin cardboard and cutting them out, we thought this would be easy and light to put up. Once we had done this we took a step back and looked at them and thought that to get the best look we would need to cut them out of wood.

We took our now templates down to the woodwork room to try and source some would and got turned down, due to the woodwork room not having any spare wood allocated for our group. However we struck some luck when we found out one of the set design boards was faulty and they couldn’t use it, so we quickly claimed the wood. After getting the wood we now needed to cut the shapes out, this was when we came up against another problem. Neither of us had had an induction on the band saw and the tutor was not prepared to give us one. W e went to our group for help but none of us could use it. This was a big issue for us and we were wasting time trying to find some one kind enough to help, eventually we found someone in another group that was willing to help but when they saw the shapes they weren’t confident in cutting them. We were very stuck at this point but luckily with help eventually from the woodwork tech dem the shapes got cut out and we were ready to paint them.

By this point we had accumulated a lot of things that needed painting so me and Harleigh began painting, the shapes and the shelves. Whilst painting the shelves we realised we didn’t actually have anything to put on them apart from one vase. This lead us to going down to the ceramic workshop, where we found so lovely items that were free for us to use and paint.

WEDNESDAY

As our boards got put up late on Tuesday is meant that we needed to go in on Wednesday and paint them otherwise there just wouldn’t of been enough time for the paint to dry if we did it Thursday.

Lottie and I spent the day painting the boards the colours we had chosen and trying to add pattern to some of our items as we felt that we needed to break up the block colours. The boards turned out amazing and we were so happy with the colour. Wednesday evening i spent making a front pattern for the cushion i was creating.

THURSDAY

Thursday morning i went in with the fabrics for the cushion. Harleigh and i spent the morning assembling the cushion and trying to come up with some new ideas for the hanging ceiling lights. We were successful however when we put the light shades in front of the wall we decided that they didn’t work as the fabric colour wasn’t correct. By lunch time our set was all up and ready and we only had a few things to finish off.

REFLECTION OF THE WEEK

I feel that this week was stressful in the respect of there was a lot of obstacles and problem solving to do however when it came to Thursday and seeing our set nearly complete it was very rewarding. We work okay as a group and things come together in the end there are obviously some frustrations when it comes to making decisions as i feel that we just go round in circles, but towards the end i think we got better at this and from looking at what we have achieved this week it shows that we can all cooperate together as a team and get the job done.

This week we have been really trying to narrow down our ideas and come up with solutions to how we are going to pull everything together.

We have started to gather items, objects and fabrics that we feel interest us and could tie in with our final colour pallet. As a group we work really well together we just struggle to make a final decision due to us have so many ideas.

We have picked up a chair and a small coffee table which we think once painted could look really stylish and fit it to our scheme really well. We also managed to email a local paint supplier to see if they would be willing to donate any paint for us. This was a huge success and we now have every colour we could of asked for.

We have also been creating lots of visual moodboards so we can see our ideas and what looks good next to each other. We have been looking in to lots of materials and methods of how we can create what we want.

Here are some of our mood boards, ideas, the chair and table and our colour pallet.

 

Week one was a busy couple of lessons filled with loads of information about what we would be undertaking in these next 5 weeks leading up to Christmas.

We started off by being put in small groups, theses groups were a mixture of people across the art schooling meaning that we can all use each others knowledge to create something amazing.

My groups theme is to create a living space which is in keeping with the WGSN Trend Empower Up! This trend is very bright, bold, with statement features or objects. It is very maximalist meaning that it is very busy and almost clashing but it is tidied together very neatly with slick clean finishes.

I am looking forward to getting to the making and creating of the project and seeing the final outcome.