“Where do I start?”
If you haven’t already, we suggest you look through decorating magazines and collect pictures of rooms you like. You may not know what exactly you like about that room, or it may be exactly what you’d like to do in your own home. Either way, it gives us a really good idea of what you like. We can then find out what details you’d like to incorporate in your room.

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“Do you come to my home?”
Absolutely. I think it would be almost impossible to create a room, or a new look unless we saw what you already had. Once we’ve been in your home, we can get a better idea of traffic flow, natural lighting, existing colors you’d like to work with (or eliminate), and if you’re doing your project a little at a time, we can better suggest which piece or service you should start with.

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“How do you charge for your time? I’m not sure which way is right for me.”
Designers and Decorators basically charge 4 ways. We’re #4

One is if you’re working with a large furniture store, there is sometimes no charge for the store designer to come to your home to get a better idea of what you could use from their store. Generally they are limited by what services they can provide you to what their store carries on their floor or in approved vendor catalogs. They often are unable to provide you with full service, which includes among other things, flooring and window coverings.
Another way Designers work, is to charge you by the hour for their time, usually around $125-$150 per hour, depending on their level of experience, and they shop for you, going different places to find what will work in your home. These Designers traditionally don’t have a store, and sometimes have a limited on site resource library, so they need to charge more per hour for their time. They charge for designing your room, and then they charge for shopping.

They also generally have design degrees, and are members of ASID, the

American Society of Interior Designers.

When you work with a Designer this way, generally they find resources for you and because they are not licensed General

Contractors, they refer you to tradespeople. They can’t do the workfor you themselves.

A third way designers work, is to charge a less expensive fee if they don’t have their degree in design, and they work a lot like the Interior Designers. They usually don’t have a store or showroom, and they have to shop for resources and refer you to tradespeople. Because they generally are not licensed general contractors, they cannot do some work directly for you. You pay them by the hour to design your room and then to shop for you.

The 4th way is how we work. Because we want to offer the broadest cross section of decorating staff, we have both Designers and Decorators, whom we call Design Consultants.

Also, because we are Licensed General Contractors, you work directly with us for all your projects.
Because we have an extensive Design Library, with fabrics, books, samples and a selection of merchandise on the floor, we’re able to pull from hundreds of resources to work on your project, without ever leaving our showroom.

We’re considered a Complete Home Decorating and Design Showroom.
We charge $85 per hour when we come to your home to do our initial Design Consultation. When we visit your home, we get the best ideas, and we can do a better job of helping you. Our Initial Consultations generally run 1-2 hours, depending on the scope of work you’d like to have done.
Once we know what you have in mind, we can then give you a total price for Design Time. Because we have almost unlimited resources on site, we don’t need to travel and find what’s perfect for you, so you’re not paying for that time.

Then we get started.

If the project involves furniture placement, we’ll do a floor plan, hopefully giving you several options for where new and existing pieces will go. Then we’ll pull furniture, fabrics for window coverings, reupholstery or new furniture, and then you meet us back in our showroom, and we do a presentation showing everything we’ve pulled.
It’s a great way to envision your whole room, even if you’re doing one thing at a time.


If you’re working on a project and have our own General Contractor, we can help you there also. If we provide design time only, and no services or merchandise, we charge $125 per hour.

This is still a great value because we help with blueprints, furniture and window placement before the project is built, materials selections that your installer will purchase and install, cabinet colors, flooring and counter tops.
This actually makes your life, and your contractor’s job easier. Most contractors are not set up to help you actually design your project, but to build it.

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What if I don’t like what you’ve pulled for me?
Great question! Our goal is to make you 100% satisfied with what we do for you, no matter the size of the project.
This is why we really need to visit your home so we can ask questions and get the best ideas we can. We also find out what you like and don’t like.

Once we’ve pulled some suggestions for you, you have the final say over whether it works or not. Our job is to pull what will fit and work together; your job is to continually communicate your preferences to us so we can stay on track.

Maybe you like the color but not the scale of print. Or maybe the print has too much of one color and you don’t care for it…..what’s great about doing the presentation in our showroom is that we’re will all our materials, and we can keep pulling until we find the perfect item.

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Ok, one more question. Won’t using a Designer end up costing me more money?
Another great question! Actually, by using a Designer, you will save time and money because you won’t be making decorating mistakes. Have you ever said “I wish I would never have bought that?” We all do it. But by having a Designer help you with selections, everything goes together.

Even if it’s window treatments, wouldn’t you rather know you’re purchasing the right treatment for the application?
And when you pay for Design help, you’re only paying for Design, and not paying more for your furniture so design time can be added in.

Make sense????

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