TEN TIPS for SUCCESSFULLY WORKING
WITH AN INTERIOR DESIGNER

1. Set up an initial meeting to ensure that the chemistry is right.

2. Share your budget issues with your Designer.

3. Require a detailed written agreement outlining the phases of the project and what the Designer's role will be in each phase.

4. Insist that your Designer communicate clearly with you, avoiding industry jargon.

5. Use your Designer in meetings with other contractors as part of the "project team."

6. Select color with the guidance of your Designer to achieve the mood, the setting, the feeling that you desire.

7. Utilize your Designer to open up a world of unique and distinctive furnishings and accessories through exclusive "to-the-trade" resources.

8. Capitalize on your Designer's understanding of "scale" to integrate all of the elements to achieve balance.

9. Depend upon your Designer to achieve exceptional results with window treatments by considering all of the essentials in the art of "window dressing."

10. Keep an open mind! But be clear about what you don't like!