I Heard About David's Interior Design Business from My Business Partner, Who Went on And

I heard about David's interior design business from my business partner, who went on and on about how David had supposedly created an accurate representation of the night sky in her sisters bedroom. Despite being highly sceptical, I found curiosity getting the better of me, and had no choice but to head over toDavid’s new showroom inTrafalgar Square, so as toreview this purportedly, wonderful and most unusual design concept for myself. After all, I was thinking (somewhat sarcastically) that anyone can dab a few dots of paint on a ceiling witha paintbrushand call it a constellation, so what could possibly be so special about this?

Over a cup of coffee, David and his wife explained to me how they came up with this concept and shared some interesting anecdotal stories about how people had reacted when experiencing the relaxing and romantic ambience that they are able to create.

David’s wife, said that there was something that she had to do before we could go on to witness this spectacular sight, so David suggested that we should pop into the next room for a moment or two.

On re-entering the room, I was, to be honest, astounded. I had assumed that the ceiling in the showroom was going to be black; so I fully expected that David was going to take me into yet another room. However, unbeknown to me, we had already been sitting in the showroom. In daylight, the ceiling looked just like any ordinary ceiling and there was nothing particularly out of the ordinary about the showroom at all, other than it looking somewhat plain, what with the absence of any pictures or artwork on the walls

As it was just after lunchtime; while David and I were in the room next door, Flavia had been covering the windows with blackout material. I was then invited to lie on the strategically positioned futon that I had previously been drinking coffee on; now in its position as a bed, so as to get a better view of the ceiling.

Just before David switched off the lights, he suggested that I close my eyes for a while, so that they could adjust to night vision.

OK I thought; I’ll humour him. However, as I waited for David’s prompt that it might be time to open my eyes, I took a sneak peek, and immediately caught sight of a shooting star… but surely, that’s not possible… all of the imaging is static; not dynamic? I was, to be honest, astounded!

What…? As my eyes adjusted even further, it hit me – my eyes wandered around the room; there were indeed stars and constellations and, yes, over in the corner, even the Milky Way, spreading its way across the vast expanse of space, just as thoughI were looking up at the awesome sight of a real night sky.

The sense of depth was truly amazing. Now I don’t know how that was done, but it’s very clever; and as my eyes moved around the ceiling in order to identify the different constellations, I was aware of anamazing sense of movement.Not only that, but I was beginning to feel that I was no longer within the confines of the room any more.

I simply could not believe my eyes… here I am, in a blacked out room looking up at the night sky – just as if somebody, had removed the ceiling, but no… not just the ceiling… where have the walls gone? (David must have done something whilst my eyes were closed, or did he put something in my coffee!).

Now… this was getting serious… way out in the distance, I can see the silhouette of a mountain range that David told me are the Virunga Mountains: home to the Mountain Gorillas from the film, Gorillas in the Mist; on the joint border of Uganda, Rwanda and The Congo. I was impressed to say the least, but when considering the added effect of introducing into this amazing visual experience, the scents and sounds of the African night, I was truly lost for words.

To my amazement, not only did David and Flavia explain that this incredible sensation was an exact representation of what I would have experienced if I had been with them in a lodge at the Queen Elizabeth National Park in South Western Uganda on the evening of their engagement, but with the use of a small black light, I was able to compare what I was seeing on the ceiling, with the actual star chart indicating which stars were there at that very place and time.

What AWESOME attention to detail!

I had already become aware of the gentle rhythmic sound of crickets chirping away into the night, but now, I began to perceive the subtlest scent of warm earth drifting on the breeze towards me from the surrounding bush, hidden by the darkness from our romantic hill top location on the edge of the vast national park.

I have to admit that it was absolutely stunning, and it is so difficult not to keep using the word “AWESOME”; but what’s truly awesome, is that not only does David create all of this by hand, but as the blackout material was removed from the windows, and the sunlight came streaming back into the room, I could see no visible evidence at all of what I had just experienced. Even on close examination of the walls, where just moments before, I had been gazing at a star filled horizon, I found it difficult to see any evidence of the special paint that he uses to create these remarkable scenes.

This is truly, an amazing concept, which I have never seen the like of before, other than a visit to the vast commercial and impersonal entity that is the London Planetarium.

I hope that you are suitably intrigued as to what it was that I experienced on that wonderful sunny spring day, and that you will want to find out more about what David can do: arrange a viewing and see for yourself.