How much does an interior designer cost?
6 REASONS HIRING AN INTERIOR DESIGNER CAN SAVE YOU MONEY!
So many people think that hiring an interior designer is a luxury you just can’t afford? I often get asked ‘How much does an interior designer cost?’ Lots of people seem to think that interior designers are only for high-end houses, but this is not the case, and I am about to share with you why!
Hiring an interior designer can actually SAVE you money because you are going to avoid a lot of costly mistakes. An interior designer can guide you through the entire design process and hold your hand along the way.
In addition to that, an interior designer can add to the value of your property. A well designed home is more likely to sell quicker and for a higher asking price.
1. Interior Designers get you discounts
By hiring an interior designer, you may save a significant amount of money on furniture, lighting, paint, wallpaper, soft furnishings, fabrics and more. The designer furniture you dreamt of may not be out of your price range after all! It is important to have in mind that this discount usually covers the designer’s fee or at least a large proportion of it. Therefore, you end up paying much less for the interior design services than what you thought.
2. Interior Designers save you time
Time is very precious these days. A designer looking after your interior design project can save you a lot of it. Time is money, and to achieve a fabulous design you need to invest time in the research of creating a perfect space. Interior designers will check everything that you may or may not have thought about to create the perfect dream home. Different layout possibilities, measurements, materials and finishes based on your likes and dislikes. Furniture selection, pricing, sourcing… those are just some of the things an interior designer will take into account. Design is about hundreds of details behind the scenes that take a lot of time. Time that you can spend doing what you love while we are doing what we love the most.
3. Budget Planning
Interior Designers will help you to allocate your funds to the right places! For example in a living room, its worth investing more of your budget on a good quality sofa rather than an expensive side table or lamp because we sit on our sofa every day and it bears a lot of wear and tear! Your designer is likely to know whats around that will create the right ‘look’ in the right price bracket!
4. Interior designers coordinate the reuse of existing furniture
If you have items in your home that you love, and would like to keep, your interior designer can integrate them into the new design so that they look fabulous. This can save you money, reusing or repurposing existing items as you won’t need to buy replacements. We can look at the pieces you already own and work out if we can keep them or edit them, for example, by reupholstering them to give them a new lease of life and match them to new pieces to cohesively integrate with everything in the new design. We come in and style your home at the end of the project.
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5. Interior designers save you from costly mistakes
It is so important to think about the final design before thinking about its parts. This means, that you have to visualise the final result of the design and what you want to achieve, before making any decision or purchase.
Most people buy items they see, without thinking about the final picture. Once the homeowners place these items or furniture together in their space, they realise that the result of their room was not what they had dreamt of and doesn’t always work together.
An interior designer can visualise your space and guide you through the process. We even have tools to show our clients their final designs with furniture layouts and 3D images of their space. Every room detail and piece of furniture would be measured, planned and carefully chosen to work beautifully together to create the dream space.
6. Increase the value of your house
An interior designer not only helps you to create a beautiful home for you to live in now. At the same time, if you want to sell your house in the future, it will happen faster and for a better price, a well designed house is also easier to sell. Interior designers maximise the potential of your home.
To Summarise - How much does an interior designer cost?
Interior designers help to hold your hand every step of your project. We are that expert eye to rely on in all the decisions you need to make. Our job is to give you confidence and to make the design process a positive and fun experience. We bring your home together by exploring your lifestyle, likes and dislikes, how you want to use the space and how you want to feel in the space to create a practical, cohesive and beautiful home.
We provide a to suit every budget.
If you are interested in some extra help for your home, check out my range of services today!
The best value for your money in my opinion is to jump on my online course Happy Home Design which teaches you my interior design process in easy steps to give you the tools and support to create your dream home, with live Q&A calls, access to an exclusive community and lots of bonuses.
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Holly Scott Interior Design is an award winning Interior Designer based in Oxfordshire, and provides Interior Design Services in Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and online.
