Q & A on Kitchen Design - Most Important Aspect

Hello!

I am an aspiring Interior Designer, currently studying at Modesto Junior College. In my Kitchen and Bath Design course, we have an assignment to research a designer.

If you have the time and would like to have your quote in a students essay:

What do you consider the most important aspect of kitchen designing?

Thank you for your time, and I love your work!

Lauren

Thank you for your question Lauren.

The most important aspect of kitchen design, after learning the basics of the craft, is to learn to LISTEN to your clients or potential clients.

Listening is a skill that most people only develop over time, with trial and error. But missed cues are very problematic in the designer client relationship.

Clients often do not know how to articulate what they want. But they always know when a designer is not listening to them, and going off on wild tangents that have no relationship to their desires.

Novice designers often do most of the talking when interacting with potential clients. They have absorbed all that knowledge and they want to show it off! Then they wonder why the clients don't come back. It's because they have found somebody else who listens.

A designer who listens and asks questions to understand fully the client's true desires does not develop plans that are wrong for, and a disappointment to, the client.

Best of luck to you in your career Lauren.

Peggy