18/03/2026
One angle of a kitchen I designed a couple of years ago.
I recently counted the number of decisions visible in just this one frame — the hardware finish, the shelf height, the hood proportion, the backsplash, the window placement, where the upper cabinets stop. I got to 28 before I stopped counting.
This is what I wish were better understood about design — it isn’t a series of individual choices. Every decision responds to something else in the room. When that sequencing is off, or decisions get made in isolation, you feel it.
The importance here is that a designer’s job isn’t just to make things look beautiful. It’s to hold all of these decisions at once — and make sure they’re in conversation with each other. That’s true even in the simplest of spaces. Maybe especially then.
Have you ever noticed that a kitchen that feels right doesn’t feel accidental? Hundreds of decisions made simultaneously so the whole thing just works.
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