letter to the editor Dear Editor, Based on your article “Designing Your Practice” that ap-peared in the May 2010 issue of Canadian Chiropractor magazine, our office became motivated to make some design changes of our own. I am a chiropractic assistant working for Dr. Larry Smith, a DC who has had a successful practice in Parks-ville, B.C., since 1987. After years in the same space, he decided it was time to finally undertake that dreaded task – renovation!! Although the property had been well maintained, the inside of the practice really needed the “extreme makeover” version to re-energize the space, and to bring it up to date. It needed treatment. It needed a “design adjustment.” The design project was offered to me since I have pri-or experience in interior design. I developed the overall plan; chose the colour palette; collected estimates from the various trades and sourced out the new elements to be installed. I also sourced out a company that does “etched” glass signs and had beautiful and very classy looking signage done on the full front window, and as a border Before: The cluttered hallway and harsh fluorescent lighting and “wood-look” moldings. After: The cleaner look of the white trim and the new crown and baseboard moldings. Note the new softer pendant lighting. 42 • Canadian ChiropraCtor | September 2011 www.canadianchiropractor.ca
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