Magazine article LexpressProperty 70 (August - September )
Their mission? To create your interior design project while respecting your desires, your budget and the constraints of your home... Thanks to a sharpened expertise, acquired through professional training, the interior architect helps you to think about the overall design of your home with coherence. Combining technicality, functionality and aesthetics, the interior designer will help you conceive your home, office or business.
Why hire an interior designer?
The expertise of the latter is truly valuable when it comes to the layout and decoration of your project. He/she will be able to recommend the best possible design for your home or office, based on its environment, architecture, as well as your lifestyle and budget.
Create what you imagined
An interior designer can draw 2D or 3D plans, computer-generated perspectives or set up virtual tours. In this way, you can be sure that it matches what you have really imagined.
The interior designer can then pick out the colours and materials and outline a work schedule.
Expertise and solutions
The interior architect will assist you in developing your project by assisting you from a technical, functional and aesthetic point of view. Not limiting themselves to decoration, between the placement of partitions, pipes and staircases, they will be able to deal with any constraints. With his overall vision of the project and the work to be carried out, the specialist will be able to design an interior that reflects your personality.
Increase the value of your property
Creating a unique interior that stands out from the crowd also increases the value of your property. By renovating, you will be able to enhance the aesthetics and ergonomics of the rooms and then sell it for more than you paid for it. Hiring an interior designer is an investment that can bring you more in the long run.
Tips on getting started
It is important to be properly accompanied in your renovation project, as it represents a considerable investment. For this reason, people often fear to undertake the project, worrying about messing things up! Here are some tips to help you...
First, be sure you have a well-defined project. Take the time to think about the mission you are going to entrust to the interior designer. Do you want to remodel your kitchen, optimise the space by knocking down certain walls, or just give your decor a fresh look? The more precise your needs are, the easier it will be to guide the interior designer on what to do or not to do.
Before deciding on the person or agency to work with, review their experience on similar projects. Consult the interior designer's portfolio and make sure you adhere to their style. If you can, ask for testimonials and check out reviews from previous clients to get a better idea of the interior designer's professionalism.
The 3D design process provides total immersion
If an individual decides to invest and call on a professional, it is to ensure that he or she has a complete service and obtains a result as close as possible to what he or she had imagined. It is thus beyond the realm of possibility to go in blindly, without having a concrete idea of what to expect!
The 3D visualization of the project improves the client's understanding. Reassured, the client tends to endorse the contract more quickly, with complete confidence. Even if modelling requires more time, whether it be for graphic creation or fine-tuning, or even rendering time, it is a fabulous tool that allows total immersion in the future home or renovated room.
As you can see, three-dimensional technology is the best way to bring an architectural project to life before the work begins. It is a tool that an increasing number of interior architects are using relentlessly, to help the design and implementation of a project run smoothly.
