Visualisations are a promise. They show a client, a builder and a joiner the same picture before a single wall is touched — and they are the most honest tool we have for talking about proportion, light and colour.
But a rendering is a still image on a bright screen. Real rooms have weather. Morning light on the lake is cooler than any monitor, and a chalk wall reads differently at four in the afternoon than at nine.
What we render, and what we do not
We render the decisions: layout, palette, materials, the height of a pendant, the depth of a window seat. We do not render the mood — that comes from the people who live there.
The finished family house on Lake Como sits within a few percent of its first visualisation. The difference is the part we were hoping for.
