Fees & Payments

Homeowners often need clarification about how to work with a decorator or interior designer. This Fee Schedule should answer some of your questions:

Retainer

After we have completed our initial meeting and decided to work together, we’ll discuss a suitable budget and ensure a good understanding of what can be achieved within that budget. Then, based on the size of your project, we may secure a retainer. The retainer is a show of good faith and covers your project’s planning, drawings, and selections. The retainer will be applied to the final payment on completion of your project. The retainer is non-refundable if we do not continue with the purchasing part of the project; however, it covers the design time invested in your project up to that point in time.

Project pricing

Each decorating project we undertake, whether a single room or the whole house, is based on a budget agreed upon before the design process starts.

This way, you always know how much you are spending.

We offer a complimentary initial consultation to get to know you and your project. For information on, or to book a complimentary initial consultation, please contact us here. Should you only want to have a color consultation or general suggestions we would charge a fee at that time to do so.

If you are building a new home

If you are considering building a new home, we can work with you to help you make the myriad choices that are involved with a new build. You are normally given one day to view your options, then one day to make final choices for your new home. This can be quite daunting, so before they are locked in by your builder let us be there at your side as a sounding board and to help you with your choices. We will guide you with:

 

  • choosing cabinetry for kitchen and bathrooms
  • discussing the benefits of quartz or granite countertops
  • helping with choices for tile, faucets and lighting
  • assist with flooring choices
  • help with paint choices

Paint consultations 

House painters seldom want the responsibility of choosing paint colors with you. If you need help choosing color, we will come to your home with paint kits. We will discuss what you are trying to achieve and help you achieve a coordinated color palette for interior or exterior paint. There will be a charge for a paint consultation, paid in advance.

2D-3D Renderings

We offer 2D Space Planning by creating true-to-scale, high-quality, accurate floor plans, photorealistic 12K 3D renders and 3D walkthroughs. We would charge a fee that vary, depending on the size of the project, that can be simple or complex.

 

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