For interior designers
Every project starts in somebody’s living room. Sell the first visit with its address, scope the design as a project with a share up front, and keep the rest for when the room is done.
From the first visit to the last cushion
A paid first visit at their address
Sell the consultation as a session at a price, and your booking question asks for the address, so you arrive knowing where you’re going.
The design fee in two parts
Set what’s due at booking on the project, and the rest waits on Today until the room is finished.
Questions interior designers ask
Should an interior designer charge for the first consultation?
Yes, when it’s a visit to the home. A morning on site with measurements and advice is work, and clients who pay for it are the ones serious about the project.
How do interior designers charge for a project?
A flat design fee per room or per project is easiest to agree to, with any purchasing handled separately. Take part of the fee up front.
What should an interior design agreement say about changes?
How many rounds of revisions the fee covers, what counts as a new room, and how extra work is priced.
Your page on the first day
This is the design or creative setup, and it’s what your page starts with. Change any of it where it appears.
- Clients can book from tomorrow onward.
- Moving or canceling is free up to 24 hours before.
- Before booking, your page asks: “What are we making, and by when?”
Your project agreement opens with this: Half of the project price is due up front and half on delivery. The scope is what we agreed in writing; new work is a new agreement.
What gets in the way
The first visit takes a morning, and clients expect it to be free.
A design fee paid at the end is a design fee negotiated after the client has seen everything.
A project quoted for one room becomes the whole floor, one conversation at a time.
What it doesn’t do for you
There’s no mood board, no product sourcing and no purchasing on the client’s behalf. You’ll design in your own tools and order through your own accounts.
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