Elevate Your Renfaire Aesthetics
Design Guide for Builders
The Essential Handbook for Crafting Authentic Renaissance Visuals
Unlock the secrets to transporting patrons to the renaissance era through purposeful design choices and historically-informed aesthetics.
If you...
...struggle to choose a look that captures an authentic historical village feel
...lack guidance on material use and placement for an immersive experience
...need to establish consistent design standards across all festival buildings
...want to avoid client rework after failed design approvals
There's a comprehensive solution!
Envision the Transformation...
Your Renfaire's architectural backdrops come alive with authentic aesthetics from the Renaissance period
Design elements like materials, textures and styles align flawlessly
Consistent guidelines allow you to maintain aesthetic integrity year after year
You elevate your craftsmanship to new levels of historical authenticity while maintaining modern building codes.
Introducing...
Renfest Builders’
Guide to Design
The definitive resource for Renaissance festival aesthetics, deconstructing every aspect of immersive design - from historical aesthetics to material applications and more.
What You'll Discover:
Symbolic historical meanings behind traditional renfaire design choices
Guidance on modern material use to recreate historical aesthetics
Examples showcasing masterful design executions to emulate
And so much more!
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Elevate your Renfaire designs today!
With this Guide you'll be able to...
Set unwavering design standards that align with management's vision Gain steadfast confidence in historically-accurate design approvals Establish trust through consistent quality for client satisfaction Streamline communication with clear creative direction for all builders
Leave the guesswork behind
Elevate your Renfaire designs today!
While most people see either an impossible, or at best, an improbable situation - Rhonni sees the innovative solutions that save business owners time and valuable resources...
These solutions lead to the most profitable outcomes, all while playing to the natural strengths of the business owner on the other side of the table."
Rhonni’s coaching and business insight helped me ask better questions of myself and my goals.
By recognizing certain things about myself, about my business style, and with a better visualization of my true goals, I now “work my business” with less stress and much greater productivity.”
My darlings, why should you listen to me … about any of this?
Hi, I'm Rhonni.
Renfaire Management and Vendor Consultant
For some background: I’m an Air Force Brat with a restaurateur father (someone has to run those NCO and Officers’ Clubs on base); my first job on the renfest circuit was as a carpenter’s helper, which evolved into festival building designer. Most of our Design Build work in the early years of being on circuit was for a group of Food Vendors, for whom I also hired and trained festival workers.
Fortunately for this lifelong learner, the Renfaire industry rewards the expansion of skillsets and encourages constant evolution. Self-taught CAD skills and familiarity with 4 different regional building codes meant I could design, draw for permits and then GET those permits in municipalities in multiple states.
Design-Builders on the renfest circuit are called to help a vendor create a workspace design that fits within the parameters of the event’s theme. It also needs to be efficient and cost-effective. These conversations require the same interpersonal skills I had to use as the Building Coordinator when the Georgia Renaissance Festival relocated their entire site in its 12th year.
As Building Coordinator, I was tasked with the following:
- Interface with vendors to convince them to invest in the park with their buildings
- Work to place Vendors in their preferred locations within the new park, while still maintaining a good product mix for each neighborhood.
- Tweak and correct the original sketches of the new park to work with the actual terrain of the site, and correcting traffic flows
- Translate show specific needs to building inspectors i.e. Deck vs stage and what’s necessary for a working stage (code handrails do not work here)
- Translate new-to-them building code to carpenters twice my age
- Relationship building and maintenance between Vendors and Show Management
- Understanding and strengthening the Festival’s relationships with Locals in maintaining Goodwill
In recent years, I’ve applied my skills to building my own businesses, and am quite proud to be a Food Vendor within the largest Renfaire in the US, where we have 10 shops.
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