5 Things Most People Don't Know about Interior Designers

When people hear you are a designer, the first thing that comes to mind is shopping for decorating items or picking out fabric for drapery. Most people think we spend our days walking in and out of stores browsing for the finishing touches for a space.

What most people don't know is that designing involves so much more than going to stores and shopping for pretty items, selecting fabrics, or finding the finishing touches for a room. In this blog, we will be sharing 5 things most people don't know about what designers actually do…

1. We Manage All Project Components to Eliminate Stress

What most clients are pleased to find out when they begin working with us is that our design services include project management.

We keep the project timeline moving, the budget within the investment amount set, oversee all the trades, source all items in the home, and order everything from large furniture and lighting to art, finishing touches, and decor.

We even spot potentially expensive mistakes before they are made saving, our clients time, money, and stress.

2. We Expand Client Access to Vendors and Trades

We have been in business for 8.5 years. During this time, we have worked hard to build and cultivate relationships with local craftsmen, to-the-trade vendors, and some of the best contractors in the Metro Detroit area.

We offer our clients access to these relationships when they work with us. This allows you to enjoy the process knowing you are in good hands and don't have to stress about working with people you aren't sure about. We've trusted these people for years so you can have the confidence in our team because they've been tried and proven true.

3. We Bring Expertise and Experience to All Projects

We offer years of design experience, whether we are working on site with our team of contractors, or listening to what your style is and knowing exactly the perfect vendor to purchase your furniture and materials from so we can take your vision to reality.

We do everything from sourcing your entire room to creating lighting plans and floor plans that ensure proper space planning. We create elevations and renderings to visually show you what your room can look like before we even begin.

We create and manage a spreadsheet to stay on budget and have a client portal to keep everything organized in one place so we move seamlessly through your entire project from start to finish.

4. We Save Time and Money from Start to Finish

We make your life so much easier when we help with your project. When we, as designers, get involved in your project, we save you time and money by doing all the research on products so you don't have to.

We know what products are excellent pieces that fit your budget and style. We are there to take deliveries, and if there are any problems with products, we quickly find a solution and correct it. We do all of this so you don't have to slow your busy schedule to accommodate any of this work.

5. We Transform Lives through Beautiful Spaces

Our favorite thing to tell our clients is that we don't just renovate spaces, we transform them! Working with an interior designer should be a great experience. We not only will create a beautiful space for you, we will have fun walking through the process with you.

When you work with us, you can rest assured that we've got it all worked out for you so you can have a stress-free design project and the end result will be a gorgeous home that's exactly your style and gives you a space to create life-long memories in.

We love to work with busy professionals who don’t have the time or energy to pull their homes together themselves. We create spaces for them that are not only stunning enough to impress their guests at every party, but also functional enough to give them that place to easily live and relax in.

While we definitely do add those finishing touches to any space, we also do so much more. When you sign on to work with us, you will find that we are the most fun, hardworking, and understanding interior design firm you will ever meet!

We absolutely love what we do! We love that we get to turn plain houses into beautiful homes for each of our clients.

Our favorite thing is getting to the end of the job and seeing our client look around their home with happy tears, saying, “This doesn’t even look like my old home, thank you.” Best feeling ever!

We offer a 3-step design process to each of our clients, whether we are designing just one room or the entire home. Either way, each client moves through each of the steps: Design, Procurement/Ordering/Project Management, and Styling.

And it all begins with a Discovery Call. If you’re ready to take the next step in working with us, schedule yours today.

Until next time,
Amy