Designing Your Living Space
I've designed many structures over the last twenty years, Industrial Estates, Domestic Housing Developments, the interiors of my homes, and so on.
I always follow the same rules, and if they work I don't fix them.
The methodology is always the same, imagine what it is that you want for a living space and how you want to use it, plan it all out, and when you're ready do it.
In 2006 I acquired a new apartment in a new Condominium - Siri Sukhumvit 10, again in Bangkok. As with my other apartment everything was planned out and detailed prior to doing any work.
Below are some of the sketches and design concepts:
Sukhumvit Park Condo
Once sure that we'd considered everything we progressed to full detailed drawings, got a contractor, and had the entire apartment reconstructed.
Apart from ideally needing a power socket between the Dining area storage cupboards, and the guest bathroom, we got everything right first time.
It's now a beautiful home.
Form Follows Function - Even at Home
In early 2004 I bought an apartment just off the main Sukhumvit road near Nana BTS station in Bangkok. The property of an uninterested Chinese Lady it hadn't been decorated for at least 15 years and was not any good to me in its existing condition.
I'm lazy, what I mean is that I only want to do something once, and I want it right first time.
I played around with some ideas, I imagined what it would be like to live in the apartment, and how I'd like things to be regarding layout and amenities and then I drew out perspectives for the apartment as I wanted it to be.
Continuing with the theme of hand painted custom parts for Harley Davidson Motorcycles, I also designed a whole range of iconic Shift Rods for their motorcycles.
Although not comprehensive below are 18 Shift Rods, for Harleys, all designed from scratch, spin cast, and hand painted by a very talented craftsman.
Upon my arrival in Thailand in late 2001, I soon got bored from inactivity so I decided along with some friends to design a whole range of Harley Davidson Custom parts.
Starting from just a plain piece of paper we progressed from concept to wax models and finally to finished parts.
Below are 10 Point Covers we designed. These were spin cast from pewter and meticulously hand painted.
