Programming and discovery session at Vanessa Empire Interiors — Phase I of the design process A custom home is not decorated at the end. It is programmed before it is planned — and that is where we begin. Most people expect a design project to start with drawings. Ours starts with data. Programming is how we gather it: real time spent on how you actually live. Where the day happens. Where the mess lands. How you entertain, what each room has to hold, and what you want this ho