An interior designer is a person who can design your home on the paper. While hiring an interior designer it is very important to understand that why you need an interior designer and how to hire one for doing the interiors of your home. Let us now discuss what all points you must consider before hiring an interior designer.
Plan and budget
1. First and foremost you must make a plan on the paper that what sort of work you want to get done.
2. Then the other most important thing is the budget. You must decide the budget for the work that you want to do. How much money are you willing to spend?
3. The third thing is to select at least 4 or 5 interior designers that you want to work with. Then fix a one-on one meeting with them and after the meeting visit at least 3 to 4 projects that they have done. After watching all these projects you can have discussions with them based on what you like.
Share your preferences with the interior designer?
So these are the points that you must consider before hiring an interior designer. Now let us discuss how interior designers can work for you.
1. When you are talking to an interior designer what is important is what your taste is and what your need is and why you are getting the interior designing done.
2. An experienced interior designer will always ask you what you like and what you dislike, else you should tell them about your likes and dislikes. So they don’t make something that you do not like.
3. Third thing is your colour preference. You must tell your interior designer what colours you like and what colours you don’t like. This is because colour is a matter of personal taste.
4. Also tell about your choice related to material. However, while telling about your likes and dislikes also keep your heart and mind open as the designer can also suggest a better option to you keeping in mind your likes and dislikes.
5. You must share your living style with the interior designer. You must share with your interior designer how you want to spend time in your house. A very good way of doing this is to invite the designer in your living premises and it will give the designer a feel of your living style. So the designer will design the home taking into consideration your living style.
Discuss and reevaluate
6. After meeting and discussion with the interior designer again reevaluate the budget because you will now have a greater understanding of the expense, so if you want to increase or decrease the budget you can do that at this stage and estimate the whole budget again based on the inputs from the designer.
7. After all this discussion when the designer will have inputs from you they will create a pre-design for your premises. You must not implement the first pre-design, you must discuss it with the designer according to your requirement. If you want to contemplate about it yourself you may do so or if you want to discuss it along with the designer you can do that. This is before the creation of the final design so you can add if there is something missing in it. If you do not like any element of the design that the designer has created in the design then you can eliminate it too. Since it is your money that is going to be spent to build something so it is your right to save the money if it is not as per your liking or taste, or is not important for you.
8. After this discussion the overall design will be made again and then you can understand the overall working plan for that.
9. After this discussion the final design will be created, which you will review and the designer will also review. Still at the time of implementation there may be minor changes that can be done but there should not be any big changes as it would be a major deviation from the design.
Time frame and payment
10. Set a time frame for the entire project and ask from the designer how long the different tasks would take, like how long it would take to do the flooring, how long it would take to do the ceiling, and how long would it take to do electricity work etc.
11. Do a clear discussion about money and payment. In what phases money will be given and when it will be given.
12. Ask for a list of the sequence of activities that will be done in the implementation of the plan from the designer, so that you will have a clear idea of what task will be done when and when it will be finished.
13. After your project will be completed the interior designer will hand over the project to you. So you must check everything while taking the project from the designer because once the designer will leave it will be difficult to call the workers for the work.
14. At the time of the handover ask from the designer a list of all people who have worked on the project, who has done what, their office address, phone no, email id etc. so that you may contact them for any need in the future.
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