Services: Partnerships
Forbes teams with builders and architects to share and enhance a project’s vision. This interface ensures that the interior and exterior environments are compatible. It also eliminates costly mistakes in space planning and material selections that can compromise the overall design.
Architects
Architects enjoy working with Allison Forbes because she understands scale, proportion and space. That is what differentiates her talent from that of an interior decorator. They appreciate that she knows when to modify a design and her ability to “work on the fly” to come up with accommodations that are often as good, or better, than the original idea. A problem-solver by nature, Allison meets deadlines and is not flustered or stymied by change and challenges. She enjoys the idea of working on a team and sharing the architects’ vision. Architects enjoy a successful collaboration with her for that reason and respect her sophisticated design sense.
Builders
Allison Forbes partners with luxury home builders and their real estate agents and architects “to get the design right from the concept stage.” Her interior design credentials allow her to provide design expertise and selection recommendations—for both the interior and exterior—when the home design is on paper and during the mechanical stage. Builders depend on Allison’s “good eye,” her knowledge of high-end, attractive products, her understanding of the building process, and her intuitive ability to modify a design to make it more functional. Allison knows what products and amenities clients expect at different price points and how to make a spec or slow moving home more saleable.