Why hire an interior designer for your new space?
Yes. Why do you need an interior designer when you can decorate your own residential space, your own office, your own restaurant?
A lot of people have often wondered why they need one designer to do this for them. After all, anyone can pick out pretty fabrics, place ready made furniture and make their space more appealing. It sure looks like the job is all about a five- finger exercise that pretty much any one can do. Isn’t it all about having pretty lightings and bringing home extravagant pieces of home décor?
This isn’t a blog to tell you that you don’t have what it takes but you might just take the wrong path. Let me tell the top 5 reasons you should hire a professional designer to make this entire designing process easy-peasy.
- Helps you avoid costly mistakes.
You look around a furniture store and think,” Oh yes! This will look perfect in my living room”. You add it to the cart. You buy the product and place it in your living room and wonder why it doesn’t look as appealing as it did in the store. What went wrong?
Years of study and practice have helped interior designers develop a good eye for detail. An interior designer understands whether to go for customized furniture or get a ready made one to match your space and make it stand out. Understanding the scale, proportion, size, color and texture is important to design a space thoughtfully. Extensive years of training has helped interior designers develop a flair for designing a space intelligently. Yes, decorating one’s space without the help of a professional is possible but it would be a smarter decision to hire a professional to do the job perfectly and add a professional touch to transform a dull space into a beautiful one. It helps you spare the horror of making costly mistakes.
- Helps you stick to your budget
An interior designer understands your financial concerns and hence helps you find the right items that fit well within your budget. How? Well over the years, interior designers develop good contacts with vendors. It saves one’s time spent on research, negotiating and bringing resources to your doorstep. It saves you the hassle of spending a fortune on purchasing items for your space and if that’s not enough, you get to choose products from a variety of brands.
- Helps you get your space professionally assessed
Amateurs wouldn’t simply know what the space would look like after it is made. Hence, they design the space without a proper plan of action and end up overlooking small but important details in the process. An interior designer, on the other hand, will provide you with a layout to help you visualize what the space would look like after you’ve renovated it. Again, they save you from the blunder of making costly errors. A trained pair of eyes will see things that an amateur is likely going to miss. A professional will always assess a space intelligently and connect the dots between functional and aesthetic appeal.
- Helps you get a qualified liaison
Interior designers simply understand the language spoken by architects, contractors, product suppliers and artisans. They understand their clients’ requirements best and help you manage your time, resources and money. They give you a realistic perspective about project completion dates and ensure that the process is smooth and timely. Do it yourself and you’ll find yourself juggling time between various workers, making them understand your requirements and making the process tiresome. Improper planning leads to poor execution. Some issues that you may overlook in this process will be noticed by an interior designer and brought up before execution takes place. Strong and transparent communication between architects, contractors, suppliers, clients and artisans is vital which is handled by a professional.
- Creates an idiosyncratic experience for you
Thinking the regular and ordinary is not what interior designers do. They are constantly updated with the latest trends in designing and can very much create a distinctive space for you. They can set the ambience of the space. A well-designed space has the perfect combination of wall colors, textures, lightings, furniture placement and home décor. Designers with their professional knowledge generate the wow factor by thinking and creating designs that are out-of-the-box. Designs that connect to the soul and make the space look inviting are sure to make your dream home a reality.
