Interior Designers & The Benefits of Engaging An Industry Professional For Your Build
Answering your frequently asked builders questions…
If you are investing a significant amount of money into your renovation or new build project, it is crucial that it not only functions effectively, but also maintains its aesthetic appeal for years ahead. Utilising an interior designer can help you achieve this, while making the most out of your investment.
Interior Design - Creating An Atmosphere In Your Home
Interior design is all about how we experience spaces and is a delicate balance of the design elements. Interior design can greatly impact the atmosphere of your home. Consciously curating textures, lighting, colours and layout can help create specific atmospheres or emotions in your home. A thoughtfully designed home, not only looks aesthetically appealing, but also feels uplifting.
The colour, furniture, textures, accessories and accents that you select, work simultaneously together to create an environment that reflects your personality and style.
Design & Making The Most Out Of Your Money
If you are investing a significant amount of money into your renovation or new build project, it is crucial that it not only functions effectively, but also maintains its aesthetic appeal for years ahead. Utilising an interior designer can help you achieve this, while making the most out of your investment.
Whether you are building small with renovating a bathroom, or conducting major works, restructuring your home or building new, you will have a range of interior design selections to make. This may include, tile choices, paint colours, flooring, skirting, fixtures, fittings, appliances, bench tops, cabinetry, furniture, lighting, plumbing and electrical supplies. The list goes on.
Working with an interior designer can help provide you with advice and create functional room layouts, pinpoint potential design issues and provide innovative solutions to help make the most out of your spaces.
Cohesion & Communication
An interior designer that understands your style can take the stress out of making these design decisions, and can help formulate your selections for each room, detailing prices, suppliers, brands and quantities in an organised and clear format that helps you easily communicate your choices to your builder.
They can also design 3D visual renders of your spaces and help ensure that each room in your home is cohesive in their design selections. We recommend utilising an interior designer to all our clients, however, this is emphasised for major full home builds or renovations, to help create synergy and functionality throughout your home.
Benefits Of Engaging An Interior Designer
An interior designer will help you define your style. Interior designers can work closely with you to help define your personal style and harness your ideas. Transforming your brief into a beautiful and cohesive aesthetic design, that resonates with you.
Have a read of some of the benefits of engaging an interior designer for your build or renovation.
Mitigate Design Mistakes & Potential Building Regulation Issues
Interior designers can actually help you save money by mitigating costly mistakes, such as incorrect colour choices or clashing tiles, requiring a full repaint or reinstall, or incorrectly sized furniture or cabinetry, causing costly delays. They can also help advise on potential building regulation issues early in the design process that may influence design and construction later in the build. Additionally, achieving a design that works and is functional to work towards increasing the value of your home.
Budget & Industry Resources
Interior designers are great at assessing the scale of your work to ensure it is kept within scope, and can help to ensure that your project remains within its budgetary range by providing suitable products that meet your design and budget needs.
Interior designers have a strong network of industry suppliers and representatives that can help provide recommendations for specific design needs, as well as provide access to exclusive industry products and services, such as special offers, limited stock items or trade discounts, that are not available to the general public. With their valued extensive supplier knowledge and trade contacts, interior designers can provide recommendations that cater to a range of budgets. As well as providing strategies and tips, helping you to save in specific areas, so you can invest in other areas, to potentially upscale tapwares or tiles.
Professional Experience & A Trained Eye
Interior designers have a great understanding of the balance of design elements, and an extensive knowledge base of what works and what doesn’t. An experienced interior designer can help pinpoint design issues promptly before installation or construction, and can help avoid any design complications through innovative design strategies, helping to save you time and ensure the end product is not compromised.
They can also take basic internal plans of your home and provide additional advice for functionality, layouts and interior selections to ensure you are getting the most out of your design. As well as providing highly detailed plans for cabinetry, such as kitchens, wardrobes, laundries, vanities or other joinery, that you can take straight to a cabinet maker.
Summary
We hope we have been able to provide you more of an insight into the importance, and role of interior designers, and the benefits of utilising an industry professional for your build. Helping you to make the most out of your investment, bringing valuable knowledge and industry experience to mitigate problems and helping you to curate a functional and cohesive home.
We know from our industry experience that utilising an interior designer makes for a well organised and more streamline experience for our clients.
Keep an eye out across the next couple of weeks, as we bring you some professional recommendations direct from our collaborative interior designers.