week 5: kelly wearstler

Wow. It’s already week 5. I feel like I am starting to get how the office runs and what is expected of me. I am making personal phone calls with the designers about my tasks, and I feel like part of the team. This week I worked mostly on shop drawings for custom vanities, tables, and beds. It was interesting to learn how they set things up and what details are necessary for a piece to be built. I also ran errands to pick out hardware, fabric, and drop of checks. After designing some doors for a beach house, Kelly picked a few and I put them in CAD to price out for the client. It’s fun to know that one of my designs will be the front door for a celebrity beach house. On a more interesting note, I had to translate foreign design magazines and search for the vendors in the photos. After many hours of searching I had to call and request catalogs. Needless to say it was an adventure and I figured out all of them but one. Been a busy week!