and approvals

The final step is to cross-check if you have mentioned everything in place. Go through the work descriptions and especially the numbers. Re-calculate your bill amounts to avoid last minute hassles. After checking up on everything, it’s time to place the BOQ on the client’s table. Take his suggestions, make some edits if suitable and get the approval stamp to get your work going.

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The Process of Starting an Interior Designing Project

Here’s a typical process followed when going for interior designing in India:

Approach an Interior Designer: Typically, we search for them online, you come to know about by word of mouth, friends and family, or even by some newspaper ads. You get in touch with them, arrange a meeting and proceed.

Meeting and Budget Discussion: Most of us have an estimate as to how much money are we comfortable in spending on the project. So, we understand what options are available within the budget.

Get the Quotation - Negotiate - Begin: Depending on our budget, the designer would give us a quotation. We negotiate, and some more and the project begins. Didn’t it all sound so very simple! We are sure it did. But the crucial factor on what determines your budget and what negotiations is the interior designer willing to get into and on what basis the costs are being altered is something most of us do not know, are not interested in knowing. BIG MISTAKE!

What Determines your Interior Designing Cost

There are two components that matter in this case, which are as follows:

The Interior designer is a professional so do expect to pay for his/her services. There are a number of ways in which your designer might charge you, the most popular 4 models are described below.

This type of model is often followed for one off consultation, where in you only want only the design ideas from them and not the entire project. This type of model is most used by designers who focus on a single service and give you the estimated time and cost involved for the project.

2. Per sq. ft of carpet area of your space

To begin with, the rates are from INR 40- 50 per sq. ft but might go up to a whopping INR 500+. Generally INR 100 per sq. ft is fairly an average range. Many interior designers follow the per sq. ft model when projects are executed by them as well.

3. Percent of total cost of project

This is most common model opted for, and it starts from anywhere around 8-10%. However, the designers who are highly experienced will charge at least 12-15% or above for their services. This is again followed when the interior designers look into the execution of the project.

4. No separate cost

In case of projects where everything is taken care of end-to-end by the interior designer, also known as turnkey projects, a designer may not ask separate fee for a service. Since the project includes all the services, the fee of the interior designer is also included in the project itself. This model is mostly seen in case of premium and luxury projects.