Find the right designer for your family.
“To me, finding a designer is like interviewing a roommate,” Marcia Moore says. “We see you when you’re bickering with your spouse; we see what your kids are like; we see what your house looks like when you haven’t cleaned it…so you have to have a designer whose company you enjoy and who really gets you.”
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Be honest with your designer.
Moore recommends that homeowners take time to really think about how they use their space and what they want out of it. Then, she says, “don’t hold back about what your budget is, about what your needs are, about what your likes and dislikes are.”
Trust your designer.
One of the most frustrating experiences in design, Moore says, is when a client has carefully selected a designer but then doesn’t want to let that person use their expertise: “You pay a lot of money for a good designer,” she says. “You need to trust that they know what they’re doing.”
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