Expansion with a Small Budget
Christopher Carbaugh Christopher Carbaugh

Expansion with a Small Budget

When your business – or your family – has expanded beyond the capacity of your facility or home, it’s probably time to get some professional advice on the best way to address the challenge.   Sometimes, the challenge (large) peaks just when the budget (small) can barely accommodate the needs.

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Extra Value of Early Team Integration
Robert Boccabella Robert Boccabella

Extra Value of Early Team Integration

Sometimes it’s a hard sell, because putting the whole team together at the front end of your project may seem premature and cumbersome.  Some professionals may agree with that caution.  However, bringing all aspects into focus in the initial planning process has many advantages that outweigh the resistance to do so.  

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When Disaster Rewrites Your Plans...
Robert Boccabella Robert Boccabella

When Disaster Rewrites Your Plans...

There is never a shortage of grief when disaster sweeps through a region, leaving normalcy in the dust.    Disasters – man made or natural – seize temporary control of lives and circumstances.  Whatever the plans might have been, they have involuntarily been changed.  At the very least, they have been drastically delayed.

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Connecting The Dots!
Robert Boccabella Robert Boccabella

Connecting The Dots!

Your business or professional environment is an important element of your marketing strategy!

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Designers, Decorators, Merchandizers and Stagers!
Robert Boccabella Robert Boccabella

Designers, Decorators, Merchandizers and Stagers!

All professional services in a specific venue have areas where the skills, talents and qualifications touch the edges of each other, and sometimes overlap.  There are also many grey areas of substantial misperception and misinterpretation.

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Designing to Fit the Vision
Robert Boccabella Robert Boccabella

Designing to Fit the Vision

Participating in the realization of someone else’s vision for their environment is an honor and a trust.

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What About The Family Portraits?
Robert Boccabella Robert Boccabella

What About The Family Portraits?

How could family portraits not be a priceless component for your Interior design project plan?

Yes. There’s that great one of grandfather and one of Uncle Silvio.

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Gatherings: Commercial Meeting Space
Robert Boccabella Robert Boccabella

Gatherings: Commercial Meeting Space

Public meeting spaces really do not have to be cold, uncomfortable and ugly!

For so many years, public entities were pretty much relegated to the tired basements, cafeterias, gymnasiums and other multi-purpose areas of institutional structures for their meetings and events.

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It’s Just Like Dancing
Robert Boccabella Robert Boccabella

It’s Just Like Dancing

Interior Design is a partnership of coordinated moves that lead to harmony with appropriate rhythms and a finale that delivers the Vision.

How a successful Interior Design project goes together depends on things like the synchronized application of all the elements that knit the details together!

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Kitchens Rule
Robert Boccabella Robert Boccabella

Kitchens Rule

A kitchen today may embrace new styles and characteristics, but some things have not changed at all.

Large, small, sleek, homey, with or without dining space, kitchens have been the center of the family home since way back!

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Don’t Go Along Just To Go Along
Robert Boccabella Robert Boccabella

Don’t Go Along Just To Go Along

Be open, honest and fearless with your Interior Designer and team!

One of the most – if not the most – difficult problems that can develop as an Interior design project gets underway, is discovering that a client has “gone along” with something they really did not feel quite right about.

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The Important Role of Humor and Whimsy!
Robert Boccabella Robert Boccabella

The Important Role of Humor and Whimsy!

Dental and Medical Interior environments must be sensitive to the anxieties of youngsters – as well as to their wonderful abilities for imagination, whimsy and comedy!

Contemporary Interior Design has grown bolder and more creative in the use of humor and fun when designing Interior clinical space for the very young.

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