Next steps
Are you interested in working with me?
I would love to hear from you. There's many ways I can help you. So let's discuss next steps....
Full service design
Help from beginning to end for a full project
Consultation
My consultations can be used for a key area or issue
Designer on call
Help on an hourly basis when you need it, with a 6 hour minimum
Some queries you may have:
What services can you help with?.....
- Concept design
- Problem solving use of spaces
- Space planning and ergonomics
- Sourcing items: furniture, fixtures and equipment
- Procurement: furniture, fixtures and equipment
- Finding tradespeople or general contractor
- Sourcing a bespoke item or signage
- Designing a bespoke item
- Help with a colour scheme
- Help with specification finishes
- Detail drawing pack
- 3D visuals
- Collaboration with a client's architect
- Collaborate on branding creation and execution
- Budget planning
- Project planning
- Submissions to Local Authority for planning consent & change of use (working with a planning consultant or architect)
- Visiting showrooms and shops together
- Designer on Site - monitor implementation through to handover
- Installation: furniture, fixtures and equipment
- Snagging of works
- Preparation of Health & Safety File
- Evaluation and post occupancy feedback
How long might it take?.....
This very much depends on the size of the project, clarity of brief, available budget and room size/s.
Typically, as guide one to two rooms can take (without revisions)….
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Briefing session and site visit: 2 hours
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General floor plan with furniture can take 2-6 hours - working from a CAD survey. Add 4-5 hours if measured survey and drawing of a floor plan is required.
- Design concept: 2-5 hours
- Furniture sourcing: 2-5 hours
- Window coverage design + sourcing: 2-5 hours
- Small power and lighting specification : 2-4 hours
- Colour scheme: 2-4 hours
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Fabric sourcing: 2-3 hours
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Flooring sourcing: 2-4 hours
- Costing summary: 2-4 hours
Drawings for quotations and installation:
- Builders work drawing: 2-4 hours
- Electrical small power drawing: 2-4 hours
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Lighting drawing: 3-5 hours
- Decoration drawing: 3-5 hours
- Bespoke furniture drawing: 3-5 hours
For a full service design, what are the project stages?.....
Next steps
Book a FREE discovery call
Book a dedicated Discovery Call into my diary - where I can find out ahead more about what help you need and we can speak or have a video call
Call me
Feel free to call to chat straightaway
I'll be glad to help you
Send a message
Leave a message and I will email you back - or I can call you if you provide a phone number and suitable day & time
Book a FREE discovery meeting
For more involved projects, this is for us to meet each other and look at the site/drawings. It can happen in person, in the Brighton & Hove area - or online. Up to one hour.
Online two hour consultation
This consultation happens on video conferencing. It can be used as an initial consultation look at your full service project together - or it can be used as a stand alone problem solving consultation.
In person two hour consultation
If you are in the Brighton & Hove area, this consultation can be used to look at your full service project together - or it can be used as a stand alone problem solving consultation.
Would you like to know more about the process + how I can help you?
Below are some guides...
Introduction to working with me
This guide provides more on my background and the benefits of using me as your interior designer. It also shows you the design process and gives feedback from my clients.
Unlike some designers I very much work to my client's brief rather than have my own house-style aesthetic, so the briefing process is important and I will guide you through it.
BIID: A Client's Guide to Working With An Interior Designer
I’m really proud to have been a BIID Registered Interior Designer® at the British Institute of Interior Design since 2013. This is the only professional institute for interior designers in the UK recognised by the British Government.
This guide helps clients to find and appoint an interior designer, what a designer will do, ways fees can be charged and the process.
For more information on the title and also guidance for clients on choosing and appointing an interior designer, please see www.biid.org.uk⠀⠀
BIID guide: An architect, a designer or both?
British Institute of Interior Design have published this guide to help potential clients - as there's lots of middle ground and crossovers between the two roles.
ONLINE SERVICES are always available
I've been helping clients with many interior design services remotely for years and most of my services are easy to help from a distance. My project portal makes this even easier. Guides are provided to help you.
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Giving Back
By working with me you are also Giving Back. This means at least 5% of turnaover are donated to my favourite animal, people and planet related charities, community interest companies & non-profits READ MORE HERE Here's just some of them....
I've supported PETA for many years and became a Business Friend in 2018. Their investigations have been of pivotal importance to the vegan design movement
Supporting hero Jane Goodall's work to restoring a wildlife habitat and corridor
ECOLOGI & MILLION TREE PLEDGE
I also plant trees with Ecologi and both of my treeplanting projects count towards the Million Tree Pledge
MICROFINANCE LENDING
Supporting fellow small businesses in the developing world through microfinance loans
Supplying cookstoves to the developing world means trees are preserved, reduced carbon emissions, improved air quality and women are supported