If you want your home to reflect your taste and style why in the world would you hire
someone else? Who, better than you, would know what you want?
Many people know what they want, or have an idea about what they want but they don’t
know how to achieve it. Many people have trouble defining or articulating their style type;
they just will “know it when they see it.”
A professional interior decorator can guide you to best determine the style that suits you.
Decorators are very visual, they see what your style is by looking around at what you have,
how you live and what you tell them you like and don’t like of what you currently own. A
good decorator will ask the right questions to
get you to articulate what you are looking
for and why. They will lead you down a path
that defines what you are hoping to achieve
so that the end result of your project is not only
visually beautiful but is practical and
functional for your lifestyle and that of your family.
But the real reason to hire an interior decorator is because interior decorators have vision.
They can look at a space and see its potential. They can visualize the strengths and
challenges of a space. Like a good chiropractor who looks at a patient and sees that they
are leaning slightly to the right or one shoulder is lower than the other, so too does a
decorator see the good and the bad and can assess how to make the right changes to
play up the strengths of a space and minimize the negatives.
A professional decorator understands space and proportion. They know how to place
furniture together so that it harmonizes. They know how to select lighting, draperies, rugs
and accessories to complement the space and enhance the ambiance of the room. And
most importantly, they understand that all elements in a room play off of each other so that
the space functions and flows properly for the owner’s needs.
So many people get stuck on selecting a paint color. Yet most often paint colors are the
backdrop to the other decorative elements in the room and don’t look their best until those
other elements have been added. Often the client can’t visualize the finished product, the
complete room, so a paint choice overwhelms them. A professional decorator knows how
to bring all the elements together so that ones at the forefront get top billing and those that
are background sit quietly.
Professional decorators have a much greater
selection of products to choose from because
many products are only available to the “trade”.
In addition, professional decorators have a wide
array of qualified contractors, sub-contractors
and tradesmen with whom they have long-standing relationships so they know who best to
recommend to meet the client’s needs.
Why would you ever hire an Interior Decorator? Because an interior decorator will get
you where you want to go. Professional guidance can save you from making unnecessary
and expensive mistakes.
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