Creating a home-based music studio

During the pandemic, I kept looking for things to do to avoid boredom and be more active, so I decided to organize my room and turn it to my liking. I realized that I enjoy doing this. So when I was told that I could do whatever I want for a Personal Project, I immediately knew what I wanted to do: design a room. I was always interested in furniture because I saw it on social media and my mom’s encouragement, but I never thought I would like to create space because I am not artistic. In middle school, during art, my teacher taught us about room aesthetics and how a particular design could change a person's mood. From then, I had the urge to shift room setting because it was plain, simple, and boring. Because of the pandemic, I want to be busy all the time and not just lay in bed. After about a couple of months of constantly changing my room and adding and removing furniture, I ended up with my goal room. Other than that, the reason why I wanted to learn more about interior design is that I want to prepare for my future career, and one day, when I have a house of my own I want it to be as comfortable as possible so that I can use it for the rest of my life. Since I want to expand my skill in designing and organizing my room, I have decided that the Personal Project is an excellent opportunity for me to challenge myself to learn more about interior design and music studios.

Product Goal

At first, I had a lot of thinking and debating whether I should try something new or whether should I do what I already knew, which is designing a bedroom, in the end, I communicated with my family and friends asking for their opinion and decided that I want to try something new. I enjoy art very much doesn’t matter in what form, which means I also enjoy music. My idea was to make a room that is related to music, one of the ideas I had was a music studio and that is how I decide what my product will be. Due to the pandemic, my client would be spending a lot of time in the house but also working on music so I am focused on making the studio home-based as comfortable as possible. Another reason why I decided on creating a home-based music studio is that I have always wanted to design it but never had the time or encouragement to do so. Now that I have permission and have the time to do so, I will use it wisely and put my skill to the test.

Reflection

The main focus of my learning goal is to improve my creativity and sharpen my knowledge. I’ve had a lot of ways to learn things, but my problem sometimes is, I tend to get distracted easily. This caused me to forget about things and be less passionate about what my main focus is on, so the solution to this is to examine from other perspectives what I’m learning. In the first stage, I use my imagination first. A visualizer that I can think of that would suit the preferred design of the room. This gives me an idea or a starter to my learning materials, leading me to the second stage of finding ideas. In this stage, I have already found my main point to the design that I am thinking; discovering ideas isn’t difficult for me anymore. Some of the pictures I found were the style I am using. Some of them are; urban modern, minimalist, industrial, bohemian decor, and many more. One of the ways that I use so that I could present them to the client is I make a mood board for the client to see The mood board helps me think more creatively because it gives me the ideal style that I will use in the room. Before I continue, I look for alternative ways that I could do if something wrong happened. I prepare for anything that may go out of the planning by preparing or buying the property that I need when I am sure of the design. One of the things that I predict is that if I am not allowed to modify the walls, sofa, or windows, I might as well just look for other things that might help. My solution for this is to change just the layout of the room and add small ornaments that could positively affect the mood of the room. The client told me before that I could not do a minor renovation to the room, which also didn’t go as planned, and I had to find another solution that doesn’t involve renovating the room. My next step is to look into the room’s conditions When I first looked at the room I noticed these nail marks all over the walls, my first solution was to cover them with big work arts but that wouldn’t suit my original plan or visualizer. So my next step was to break down ideas that might help cover these nail marks. After some discussion with the client, we ended up covering them with spackle and colored the walls because painting the walls was in my original plan. After the wall problem, a new problem had come up after it. This cable line was the cable to our wifi system and it went through the room. This was one of the hardest parts of the work for the reason of finding a way to fix or hide it was troublesome. Here are the solutions I had come up with:

• Make the cable go through the bottom edge of the room

(what will happen)

• Cut it down (what will happen)

• The cable goes through the walls (what will happen)

• The cable goes through the outside part of the house

In the end, after we discuss it with the house owner they decided to cut it down and change it into something else. Even though the remains of the cable stay in the room, I don't find it disturbing my works and kept in a place where it won’t disturb anyone when they are going in the room. Communication skill One of the other skill I used in order to achieve my learning goal is to communicate. I use this skill when I am interviewing my client, it is a necessary step for me to ask questions on how the client wants the room to look like or at least, what he expects the room could be, what are his requirements, anything he doesn’t want in the room, and more. With communication I work more with ease because I do not have to worry about the work I am doing, I don’t have to worry that this and that would disturb him when working. The other usage of this skill is when finding the website for making the visualizer, I communicated with my friends and they suggested some websites that allow me to make an online visualizer.

Product Evaluation

In making my product, I realized a bunch of things, learned new things, found a new way to work, and managed my time. My product made me realize that my passion in interior design is not just a hobby, but I really could use this to make a living out of it I also realized that making the room isn’t as easy as just buying new furniture and putting it in the room but it’s more than that. I had to make a plan such as when to start learning when to start putting together a layout, when to start working, and more. Making the room was very hard at first because I was too confused about where to start and what to do, but after I had a meeting with my supervisor I knew where I should start and how. My first step was to start making an outline of my project first which is very helpful for me to keep working and move on to the next steps without a doubt because I already had an outline. Even with the outline ready starting the work was challenging, I had to sacrifice some of my free time to work on the project or buy the products needed. Not only was it time-consuming but also tiring. One of the many things I face that was hard for me to do was to make the 3D version of my visualizer. As shown in the picture above, that took me about 3 hours to make because I made more than 1 version of it, I have a couple of 3D online models of the layouts I made to present to the client and ask for feedback.