Design
Senior Designer
Ensuring your vision and expectations for your home, garden, or landscape project is realized in every detail is our top priority. Integral Design prides itself on being a true Design/Build firm, at the core of which is the design process kicking off each and every job.
Our design process is lead by our Senior Designer, Nate Bomford. Nate has an extensive background in a wide array of visual and creative arts and has been applying this to homes, landscapes and gardens in the Victoria region and beyond for many years.
Nate is a practicing contemporary artist. He obtained a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Victoria in 2006, a Bachelor of Fine Art, with a major in photography, from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2003, and a Diploma of Visual Art from Camosun College in 2001. It is the marriage of his artistic and design sensibilities, with the wishes of the client, and the individual challenges of the site, that lead each project to a unique conclusion.
The design process can range from very simple to more complex, depending on several aspects of the project at hand, and typically carries the following phases:
Consultation
An in-depth consultation and review of your property and its potential and limitations with a strong focus on answering your questions and finding solutions to challenging situations.
Design
Preparation of preliminary plans may include rough or detailed conceptual and spatial plans to help illustrate the vision we have based on everything we have learned to this point. From here, we can go deeper into the planning and design process based on the project requirements and prepare fully detailed plans and illustrations, irrigation plans, lighting plans, drainage plans, planting plans and more.
