Tiffany White Designs & Renovation

Tiffany White Designs & Renovation combines interior design and renovation work in St. George. Keeping design and construction under one roof addresses a specific and expensive problem: on a remodel, the schedule is governed by selections, and selections are usually made by someone who is not holding the schedule.

How it works

Every construction schedule has a critical path - the sequence of tasks where a delay to any one delays the finish. On a renovation, an unusual number of items on that path are decisions rather than labor. Cabinets are commonly manufactured to order with a lead time measured in months, and nothing downstream of them can proceed. Tile chosen from a discontinued line, a plumbing fixture on back order, an appliance whose dimensions dictate the cabinet opening, a light fixture whose box has to be positioned during rough-in - each is a decision that gates work, and each is invisible as a bottleneck until it is late.

A construction-informed design process front-loads those decisions instead. It also means the drawings reflect the building as it exists. An accurate as-built survey of a house being remodelled - actual dimensions, actual wall thicknesses, where the structure and services really run - is the difference between a design that can be built and one that is redrawn on site. Older houses in particular are rarely square and rarely match their original plans, and a beam or a stack discovered during demolition is far cheaper to design around on paper than to encounter with the walls open and trades scheduled.

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