How to Choose an Interior Designer or Redecorator

What types of professional interior designers are available?

Have you heard of Interior redecorators? These professional interior decorators transform your home using things you have accumulated over the years. The end result is a balanced, harmonious space that reflects the personality of the people who use it. Many interior designers have added this service to their repertoire. Alternate terms for professional interior designers specializing in interior redecorating are interior redesigners, interior arrangers, interior stylists, one day decorators, visual coordinators or interior refiners.

What is a Certified Interior Designer? (from B&P Code Section 5800,5538)

A Certified interior designer is a competent design professional who is qualified to design, prepare, and submit any type of nonstructural, non-seismic interior construction plans and specifications to local building departments. Certified interior designers have demonstrated through education, experience, and examination their knowledge of the Uniform Building Code as it relates to space planning, life safety, flammability, and disabled access code issues. Most interior designers have a minimum four-year education. Many have Master of Interior Design degrees or other additional education in architecture or interior design. Interior designers who have many years experience may not have a Bachelors in Interior Design, but usually are well educated and have many years of qualified experience. All qualified interior designers will indicate that they have passed the NCIDQ (National Council for Interior Design Certification) examination and/or are registered/ certified/ licensed in their state.

How do Interior Decorators charge for their services?

Flat Design Fee: The client pays a flat fee for the professional interior designer’s services based on the design plan, time required, and scope of services.
Hourly Rate: The interior decorator bills a negotiated rate per hour.
Cost Plus Method: Professional interior designers charge a set percentage on all merchandise purchased and tradesmen's services rendered.
Mixed Method: The client pays both a set percentage on purchases and a base design fee for hourly rate.
Per square foot: This method is used especially in new construction.


What to ask at the first meeting:
• Ask to see the interior designer's portfolio, but remember that the designs reflect other people's tastes,¬ not necessarily the interior decorator's, and possibly not your own.
• Ask what size projects the interior designer has worked on, where, and what was the budget range.
• Ask how the established budget will be handled, and the kind of payment schedules the interior decorator requires.
• Ask about the types of services the designer can provide.
• Ask for a list of references.

What you may be asked at the first meeting:
It is a good idea to prepare for your first meeting with a professional interior designer by creating your own folder of clippings from magazines, catalogs, and books of design ideas that appeal to you.
You may also be asked some or all of the following questions:
• For whom is the space being designed?
• What activities will take place in the space?
• How long do you plan to occupy the space?
• What is your time frame for completing the project?
• What is your budget?
• Are you relocating or remodeling?
• What image do you want to project?
• What colors, style, and effects do you like?
• What are your objective and lifestyle needs?
• What is the approximate square footage to be designed?

If a professional interior designer, or anyone, for that matter, tells you the process is easy, stress-free, and will be complete in two weeks, they're either lying or stupid. Don't hire that person.

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Kimberly M. Stone, is the owner of Adore Your Décor™, an interior decorating firm specializing in interior redesigns and home staging. She also serves as the Feature Editor of http://www.MySpaceDesigners.com, a resource directory for professional interior designers and for consumers looking to locate professional, innovative designers for small space, residential and/or commercial design projects. For more valuable tips on how to choose an interior designer, visit http://www.MySpaceDesigners.com.

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Interior Design Without Fulfill Your Requirement

Consider a room, which is beautifully design, but not fulfilling your requirement, what this design called? Design Failure, Interior designing is not for designing home or office just to look beautiful, important factor is to fulfill requirement while keeping it beautiful, so interior designing is to balance both, designing aspect and requirement aspect, if you just start designing by making room space beautiful, your client might rejects your design.

First step in the interior designing is to understand the requirement of your client, its always be a better idea to make questionnaire, put as much detail questions as you can do, sit with your client and observe his personality, invite him or her in your office, when you think you fully understand client requirement, now start your drawing, first only draw basic requirement, no fancy curves, nothing, just simple basic design, just put things in better places, measurement aspect and that’s all, when you finish basic design, now start making your design beautiful.

Imagine, imagine, imagine, your imagination is king in interior design, if you are not good at imagination, you might be fail in interior designing, imagine different colors, lighting, material, curves in mind, start making it beautiful, lighting, colors, material, curve, whatever you have in your mind, place it at your canvas, than make a master piece, this will be approve by client guaranteed, because this 100 % fulfill your client requirement and also its beautifully design, this is the formula of designing,

1. Understand requirement of client.
2. Making things out of this requirement,
3. Putting these things at better places.
4. At final step, start making it beautiful.

Follow this formula and your design will be a winner design.

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