Saturday, October 6, 2007

Signed the lease today.

We today we signed the 3 year lease on 130 sqm (1,400 sq foot) commercial space. As my this is the first time signing I did a quick search to see if I could get any tips on signing the lease. I found these two sources of a few quick tips. "What to know before signing a commercial lease" and "Ten things you need to know.."

I think the terms sound fair. The rent is just under 42,000 baht per month. We pay phone, electric, water and the condo fee is built in. We though is was going to be a lease where the price rises 10% a year, but luckily that is not the case. The lease starts Nov 1, 2007.? and ends 3 years later.

Now the next step is for the designers to get into the room and do the measurements. After that they plan to show us the overall design.

I must say I'm a bit worried here. I know from my design experience that most design starts with thumbnail sketches to figure out the overall traffic plans. Lets go to Wikipedia to see what they have to say about the design process:


Typical steps

A design process may include a series of steps followed by designers. Depending on the product or service, some of these stages may be irrelevant, ignored in real-world situations in order to save time, reduce cost, or because they may be redundant in the situation.

Typical stages of the design process include:

  • Pre-production design
  • Design during production
  • Post-production design feedback for future designs
  • Redesign - any or all stages in the design process repeated (with corrections made) at any time before, during, or after production.
A few other places list their ideas of steps in design. here, here, and here.

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