Project Progress - Timetable

Project Start

Agreed:
It is fun to be integrated into a project so early.
But from the keel laying it still takes months until the interior work can really begin.
First, all installations that will later no longer be visible – water and electrical lines, etc. – must be built in, so that afterwards floors, ceilings, walls and furniture can be mounted.

Product Selection

Of course, I am pleased when I can select fabrics and materials together with my client as early as possible.
Most of the time this happens in large specialist stores, sometimes at trade fairs, and for tableware often also from high-quality product catalogues.

Moodboard

The choice of colours must be consistent and understandable for both client and craftsman.
Ceiling and wall coverings, carpets, furniture and cushions must be coordinated just as carefully as the tableware, cutlery and glasses so that they stylishly suit the owner, his family and guests.

Offer

An offer for a larger yacht is quite elaborate and can easily comprise 80 pages.
Owners, guests and crew all have very different requirements, so almost every ‘product category’ needs its own ‘offer chapter’.
Beds are also custom built. In the children’s cabin there are bunk beds, in other cabins sliding single beds, in the crew cabin everything is smaller anyway, and in the fore cabin the mattresses taper to a point.
Every yacht is ‘custom built’, a true one-off!

The Construction is Already Well Advanced

Now it is a matter of making the final fine adjustments together with the client.

• Where does everything go?
• How is the tableware made ‘sea‑proof’?
• How many cushions make sense?
• Do the towels (in various sizes) have enough storage space?
  
• What additional kitchen utensils does the crew still wish for?

Finish

Almost ‘done’.
Of course, now it is about presenting all delivered objects in their full splendour.
I am only satisfied with my work when crew and owner proudly present their jewel to the invited guests at the christening of the ship.