Design by Knight

Building from the Ground Up

Although I like remodeling and design of all types, my real love and passion is new construction and building from the ground up. As a child I can remember playing with my friends in their yard after their Dad had mowed the grass and raked it into big piles of clippings. I would take the grass clippings and outline the floor plan of a small house on the freshly mowed lawn. I would then show my friends how to do the same and before you knew it we had a neighborhood of houses on the lawn and played for hours visiting each others houses walking room to room explaining what we envisioned the rooms to look like.
It is always a thrill when I am hired to help a client navigate their new construction projects. When you hear it takes a village to raise a child, it is like that when building… it takes a team to raise a house. The more eyes you have the better the project.
This is a house in South Tampa that I was lucky enough to be part of the team. I think the best way to plan a new home is to start with the big picture of what it will look like and then start breaking down all of the design elements and put them in the puzzle piece of building as needed in the building process. You may have a change along the way but it is less likely to cause delays in construction when you know how the changes effect the “big” picture.

Being and artist, along with my experience as an event planner and my years working for a custom home builder has given me the expertise and experience needed in pulling together a zillion details with style, color and creativity into the finished product my client will call “home”.

In this new home construction project in South Tampa, I worked with my colleague, Gail Levine, of Gail Levine Interiors. She is amazing with color, fabrics, furnishings, art, interiors and has a great sense of the end product vision.

I am posting a few photos below. To see additional photographs of this amazing house go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lknightm/sets/72157625123612144/

Choosing Interior Paint Colors

I have been working on a new home construction project with my colleague, Gail Levine, for a delightful client who hired us to help her navigate through all of the design decisions one is faced when building a new home along with sorting through which items of furniture she will be keeping and which pieces will be purchased new to transform her new house into a home.

When building a new home or remodeling an existing one,  Continue Reading…