Lisa Vander Meulen Portfolio Contact Information:

cell: 616.638.8947 e-mail: lisa.vandermeulen@gmail.com

45,000 sq. ft. culinary school. Fine dining restaurant and supporting kitchens, retail, assorted teaching kitchens, demonstration areas and traditional classrooms.

Courses Restaurant

Courses Restaurant Guests are treated to food and service provided by culinary students.

Baker College CIM – The Sweet Spot Sales of specialty pastries and desserts created on site.

The Sweet Spot – Community Space

Rotunda and Central Staircase

CIM Central Rotunda

CIM – Teaching Kitchen (Skills Lab 1)

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CIM – Skills Lab 1

CIM – Skills Lab II

Note that all casework is stainless steel and freestanding. Floors are a slip-resistant heavy-duty sheet vinyl with welded seams.

Students at work

CIM – 3rd Floor Classroom Waiting Area & Library

CIM – 3rd floor Classroom

Modular doors can separate this classroom from two others, or can be opened up to create a larger space.

CIM – Demo/TV Kitchen During Installation

Note 3 heights of tables and chairs. Kitchen casework not yet installed . The original design called for poured concrete risers. These concrete risers were deleted as a cost savings and 3 different heights of furnishings used to create a tiered effect.

Baker College Welcome Center

Baker College Welcome Center

Potential student welcome and check in

Baker College Welcome Center

Lobby seating area

Nature Education Center LEED Gold Facility

LEED Gold Certified Building. Provided complete interior design services – finish , furniture specification, bid document development Coordinated sourcing of donated furnishings.

Hemlock Crossings Nature Education Center

Welcome Desk

Multi-purpose Room

Critter Den – Discovery Area

Critter Den – Aquarium

Critter Den – Animal Feeder Viewing Area

A LEED requirement is that materials originate within 500 miles of the site. Flooring is Morton Gneiss granite from Minnesota, local fieldstone, red pine logs and pine trim.

Classroom

Gift Shop and Library

Engineering Firm

Engineering firm with furnishings and finishes that support the company’s 24 hour operations and relate to it’s purpose – Civil Engineering/Bridge building

Clean lines and easily maintained finishes carry into public areas and private offices.

Furniture classics compliment clean lines of desking units.

Financial Services

Community Shores Grand Haven – Lobby Strong colors balance company’s corporate blue and contribute to the facility branding.

Community Shores Grand Haven – Teller Line. Finish palette and furnishings typicals were used for 2 additional branches to help establish corporate identity and branding.

Muskegon Chamber of Commerce

Visitor Welcome Area

Coffee/Gathering Area

Office Area

Law Office

Law Office – Waiting Area Horizontal reveals in built-in casework and fireplace were designed to line up exactly with reveals in furniture system.

Law Office- Casework/ Fireplace Detail

Cherry panels are touch-latch doors on coat closet and storage cabinet.

Law Office – Conference Room

Medical/Dental Office

Orthodontist Office – Waiting Area

Orthodontist Office – Operatory

Retail

Sweet Temptations In this candy/ice cream chain the whimsical chair fabric inspired the color palette and flooring design.