After a flooded basement plagued her house South Dakota homeowner Maria Schaffhauser approached interior designer Patricia Thoms and began talking about long term plans.
“I was just there looking for flooring, but I said eventually I want to do a home remodel,” Schaffhauser said.
“She didn’t know where to start,” Thoms said. “So I said, we have a free consultation, and I can go to your house and measure and make a project for you, and she thought that was great. So I went to Aberdeen and measured and took pictures, and then when she returned to Sioux Falls, I had a presentation for her.”
Schaffhauser was presented with a three-dimensional image of how she could enlarge her main living space and renovate her kitchen, dining room and living room.
According to Pigeon 605, “That allowed her to visualize and see how she wanted to place even things like her windows,” Thoms said.
It was the help Schaffhauser needed.
“We wanted a larger kitchen and had an idea of what we wanted to do, but she was the one who measured and said ‘we can do this’ and drew it out, and that was actually what we used with our contractors to show what we wanted,” Schaffhauser said. “We took it to a cabinetmaker and showed designs and to a counter provider and showed what we wanted.”