The Design Behind My New Logo

The Covid Pandemic was a terrible thing that happened to our world. Yet for some people, it took them in new directions. My architectural career was revived by one of those who found light during these difficult times.

My client was renting space in Athens, GA for her hair salon. Just like many of us, March 2020 closed her down. Shortly after closing, her clients started asking if she could continue to take care of them. Her response was, “Sure, as long as you come to my house”, which is about 25 minutes from her salon in Athens. To her amazement her clients kept coming and she found there was no need to spend money on renting a distant space anymore.

In 2019 she attended an open house for the Gillen House Luxury Bed and Breakfast in Maxeys, Georgia, which I co-own. Touring the house she saw the extensive renovations I had done to convert the 100 year old, six bedroom, two bath house into a five en-suite bedroom home. In September 2020, when she had the idea to build a free standing hair salon on her 100 acre farm, she told me she was very impressed with my work on the B and B and asked me to design her hair salon.

I didn’t think twice about it and I took the job. Here was the opportunity to once again work on one of my passions: design. At first I was working the old fashioned way, drawing by hand with a parallel bar and triangles, and making a working model out of foam board. When the time to produce the final drawings came, I decided to acquire the three dimensional program Sketchup. It was love at first click. This program has been so much fun to work with that now I do all my design work on Sketchup and use Autocad LT for final drawings.

The 500 sq. ft. hair salon was completed by the end of the year and opened to the public in January of 2021. I am extremely grateful to my client and now good friend who believed in my talents and shared her light with me.