What is important when selecting an interior designer?

Choosing an authentic and professional interior design company for your residential or commercial spaces like home, apartment, or villa renovation could be challenging. As a client, you want the best possible results as your return on investment. What happens if that interior design company cannot deliver, what you wanted? A waste of time and investment.

Therefore, you need to search the market and choose the best interior design company that can help you turn your dream home into reality and makes you feel connected with your home. We are here to help you understand important things that you need to keep in mind while finding the ideal interior design company for your residential or commercial spaces in Dubai.

  1. Set a budget
Budget

Set your budget before you hire an interior design company to remodel your house because this is the first and most important part of your project. You need to set up a budget that you can afford to design your space before hiring an interior design company. Once they start your project, they will keep the budget in mind and purchase the things that adjust to your budget and gives the best results. Some designers have fixed service charges and few of them charge an hourly rate. Setting up a budget helps you to determine if you can afford their service charges or if you would like to go for another company that suits your budget.

  • Check Portfolio:
Blak Interiors Portfolio

A portfolio is the most important thing that you need to consider before hiring an interior designer. Look at their past projects and you’ll have an idea of their work. Their past projects can help you determine whether they are professional, whether they have worked in your region previously, are they updating their scope of work according to the trends and place where they are working right now. Don’t hesitate to ask more questions you have in your mind before hiring an interior designer otherwise you will risk your investment. For instance, if you’re hiring them for your office interior design, ask them to show you their recent projects and office design by them.

  • Setup a meeting:
meeting

Once you shortlist some interior design companies ask them for a face-to-face meeting. Understanding is the key to completion. When you talk to your interior designer onsite you get to know if they can change your thoughts into reality. Tell them what you want to achieve in your project and see if they connect with your thoughts. Ask them to show you some project pictures related to what you are looking for and don’t miss the designer’s suggestions take note of everything and plan accordingly.

  • Planning is Everything: 
planning

When you decide to design or renovate your property, you might have something in your imagination that you want your home to look beautiful in a unique way. This is where planning is needed. You can’t just look for interior designs online and ask your interior designer to make the same copy because you might be able to buy the same furniture and decorations, but you can never have the same space that someone has in their house. And interior designers always design the interior according to the space available. So, as we said previously planning is everything, if you are investing money to make your home beautiful then you must create a proper plan with your interior designer and process it accordingly. Don’t just create a replicate of something because there is nothing unique in a copy. Ask your Interior designer to give you suggestions about furniture and design, trust me this is worth it because you are taking advice from a person who has spent years learning how to design an interior and they are very creative in their imagination. They can tell you which furniture is going to look attractive in your space and the best part is that they have contacts with the suppliers which can give him a good discount, he knows the prices, material, and quality of the things. You don’t need to worry about going to different furniture shops and wasting your time and money. Also, they can help you by working with your contractor to get things done properly. They will ensure that the contractor is working accordingly to the design requirements, saving you a lot of time and dilemma.

BY BLAK INTERIORS

- Marketing team

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