Thurs. 5/29 - Week2

Today I went with Glen, the president of the firm and two other designers to color selection. The clients were the Sobeski’s who live in New Jersey and are building a home in an up-scale neighborhood called Belle Lago. Toll Brothers, American Home Design Builders is the company for this particular neighborhood in Belle Lago. So we went to one of their show rooms where they have models of different rooms. A color selection isn’t just color selection at all. Rather it’s sitting with the client and helping them pick out every single architectural fixture and detail of the house. This ranged from the tile design in the master bath to the style and placement of knobs on the kitchen cabinets. It was very long and a bit tedious. But I learned a lot. Toll Brothers represent a selection of manufacturers so they were already predetermined we just had to pick from those manufacturers which made it easier in a way. The house the clients chose came with a standard of options, but they upgrade a level with a price elevation. It was neat to learned what cost more and how much and how that system worked. I took lots of notes and gained a real client experience.