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Ryan Harkrider
- Jun 27, 2019
- 4 min
Behind the Scenes: The (Schematic) Design for Our Children's Boutique
We've been talking about our work for a children's clothing boutique in NW Portland. Today we show the Schematic design! But what does Schematic design mean? If you've followed along with this series, you'll remember how we got here. (If you want to catch up or are just joining, here are the posts for inspiration, before photos, space planning and furniture sourcing.) For Wise Design, our work is done in several stages: 1. Conceptual This phase includes inspiration images or
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Ryan Harkrider
- Jun 12, 2019
- 2 min
Behind the Scenes: Furniture for a Children's Boutique
We love love love designing for kids. Hands down children's spaces are the most creative, sweet, daring and just plain fun! For our children's consignment boutique, we knew that we needed to source a general hanging + shelf system to display the store's inventory. We also needed to find baskets and bins to hold & display accessories. IRL, budgets are everything. We can look at custom-made, gold-plated, antique, one-of-a-kind whatever all day long but often, that's just not wh
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Ryan Harkrider
- May 16, 2019
- 2 min
Behind the Scenes: Children's Boutique Before Photos
Last week we talked about our design inspiration for a new children's boutique opening in less than 30 days (yikes!) After getting the keys for her new store, our client went on a fieldtrip to take photos: Ok. So far so good! Love the light and the height of those side windows. Great opportunity with the covered breezeway to move inventory outside and attract people to the store. With the Oregon rain, you need cover! Nice big wall for shelves, racks & display. Paint will go a
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Ryan Harkrider
- May 9, 2019
- 3 min
Behind the Scenes: Inspiration for a Children's Boutique
Besides being designers, we at Wise Design have several things in common: we all have a love for historic architecture, we're all blondes (not planned!) and we're all moms. Tamara has a son, I have a daughter and Annie has us all beat with two sons and one daughter. Being mom-designers has unintentionally been a huge asset in terms of understanding the realities of everyday living. We know when a client wants durable, they mean *durable.* We've also been there: the sleep-de
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