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SUMMARY:Before the First Cabinet: Designing Kitchens That Survive Permit
DESCRIPTION:A kitchen remodel gets approved in design. It gets redesigned at permit. It happens on projects across the country\, and it costs clients money they weren't planning to spend\, delays projects by weeks or months\, and quietly damages the relationships between designers\, contractors\, and architects.\nThe reason it keeps happening isn't bad design. It's a sequencing problem. The kitchen gets designed before anyone asked the structural questions. Before anyone confirmed what's in the wall. Before anyone looked at what the permit jurisdiction actually requires for egress\, ventilation\, or mechanical clearances in a remodel scenario. The design work was beautiful and the design work was premature.\nThis session is for designers who are tired of watching their best work get value-engineered or field-modified after permit. It's also for anyone who has ever been in a client meeting where the contractor delivered the redesign news and the designer had to explain why the plan changed.\nWe're going to work through real project examples. You'll see exactly where the design went wrong and what one early conversation with a licensed architect would have changed.\nThen we're going to put you in the seat. You'll get a project brief: site type\, scope\, jurisdiction\, client priorities. Small groups. Fifteen minutes. Your task is to identify the questions you should have asked before the first cabinet layout went to the client. Not after SD. Before.\nThe groups that get it right won't necessarily know the structural answers. They'll know which answers they didn't have and who to call before the design opened.\nThat's the skill. Knowing where your scope ends and where the risk begins. Not so you stop designing. So your designs survive.\nWhat attendees will leave with:\n\nA diagnostic framework for identifying permit-risk conditions before design opens\nA short checklist of pre-design questions that belong in every kitchen and bath project brief\nA clearer understanding of when to loop in an architect and how to frame that conversation with clients so it doesn't undermine their confidence in you
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