The designer is to formulate a reasonable design scheme according to the needs of the owner, which usually includes the original house type drawing, wall tiles demolition and building drawing, floor tiles layout drawing, ceiling layout drawing, water and electricity wiring drawing, switch and socket drawing, effect drawing, elevation drawing, detail drawing, section drawing, as well as the design scheme description, budget table, etc. Here is everything you should know about choosing the best interior designer.

The role of interior designers

1. Preliminary formulation of interior design scheme

The interior designer will understand your family process, family members' living habits, style, color matching, and other needs, and then give a preliminary interior design scheme according to the needs. This step is mainly to determine the house type transformation scheme, style, and other aspects.

2. Prepare decoration budget according to the owner's budget

By understanding the owner's budget and the size and complexity of the house type, the designer formulates a decoration budget table according to the space, including the material cost and labor cost of each decoration link.

3. Help the owner to purchase building materials

If it is a half package or clean package decoration method, then some building materials need to be purchased by the owner. At this time, you can ask the designer to help you purchase building materials. The designer knows more about the types of building materials.

4. Provide soft-fitting suggestions

It is very difficult to grasp the collocation of soft decoration. The designer needs to provide suggestions to the owner based on rich collocation experience and use interior design software such as 3DMAX or aifuwo cloud design to make effect drawings so that the owner can have a more intuitive feeling about the collocation effect of soft decoration.

5. Put forward construction suggestions during decoration

A good designer must have run through many construction sites and have rich experience in actual decoration construction. Then in the construction process of the owner, the designer will put forward many specific construction suggestions to help the owner avoid various decoration traps.

How to select excellent designers

1. View designer qualifications

There are two aspects to inspect the qualifications of designers: one is the working years of designers, and the other is to ask about the qualifications of designers. There are three kinds of designer qualification certificates, namely senior interior decoration designer, intermediate interior decoration designer, and assistant interior decoration designer. Senior > intermediate > assistant.

2. Observe the professional quality of designers

Observe whether the designer is present at the appointed time and whether his speech and behavior are appropriate. Excellent designers are not only competent in their own design work but also able to maintain their own personal image.

3. Communicate ideas with designers

This is the most important aspect. The designer's real ability can only be fully reflected in the discussion of specific design schemes. The key point is to judge whether the designer helps the owner with appropriate schemes based on the needs of your family members and their own design ideas.

4. See designer works

You can ask the designer for his previous design schemes and works to understand the designer's habitual design techniques and understanding of the design. You can also ask his previous customers to understand and obtain real public praise.

5. Horizontal comparison of multiple designers

As the saying goes, you can also contact multiple designers to select a designer, and ask them to measure the room and draw out the preliminary design scheme, and then make a horizontal comparison from the aspects of professional quality and design ability to select the most suitable design.

How to communicate with designers

1. Clearly indicate the composition of family members, living habits, professional conditions, etc. to the designer, preferably in the form of documents. Communicate and feedback more about the designer's suggestions, and discuss the optimal solution under reasonable circumstances.

2. Carefully understand the designer's introduction to the design scheme, discuss the rationality of the design space by space, and give the designer respect and tolerance, because designers often have their own unique design ideas.

3. If it is contrary to the opinion of the designer, please ask the designer to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the two schemes. Do not blindly listen to the opinions of the designer, but also have your own opinions, but do not stubbornly adhere to very unreasonable requirements.

Common misconceptions suffered by designers

1. The designer is one of many jobs. Since it is a job, there will be labor remuneration. Although it seems to save money to find acquaintances to design for free, in fact, you are squeezing designer friends. The industry of designers is actually very tired and hard. If you sincerely treat designers as friends, you should pay their due remuneration, and they are more willing to help you design more reasonable and cost-effective schemes.

2. Now many people have misunderstandings with the designer, thinking that the designer will produce a few drawings and finish them in a few minutes. In fact, all design schemes have to be modified and optimized repeatedly by the designer and include the painstaking efforts of the designer. We should respect the labor achievements of the designer because a good design scheme can help you save a lot of decoration costs.

3. In the process of communicating with the owners, designers often receive various picky demands from the owners, because the owners always have a kind of psychological activity, that is, I have paid for this design scheme, and I can't let you do the design scheme so simply, but I don't know that the patience of the designers has been eroded, which also causes many designers to simply not pursue perfection in the first version of the scheme, and cooperate with the owners to change it several times, In fact, this is a waste to designers and owners! Why?

4. Since it is natural to collect money for business, it is also proper to charge a friend for a design scheme. As a friend or owner, you should not be dissatisfied with the designer's charging behavior, let alone roast that the designer is stingy.