Three Ways Designers Save You Time & Money

Three Ways Designers Save You Time & Money

Guest blog post submitted by the Indiana Design Center.

Creating a home that truly reflects your personality and lifestyle is an exciting process. It can also be daunting with the myriad of details, budgets and choices that go into the crafting of each space. Whether you are remodeling an entire home or revamping a room, hiring a professional interior designer will offer you peace of mind, knowing that you won’t make costly decorating mistakes. A designer’s guidance is based on years of experience, expertise, creativity and access to resources that make the process easier.

Here are three ways that designers can save you time and money:

1) Avoid Costly Mistakes

Every dollar and detail counts when you are updating your home, and the wrong decision can be costly. Seemingly simple choices, like a shade of gray paint, may skew green, yellow or purple once in the room and not be what you envisioned. Paying for new paint and the labor to re-do it can be thousands of dollars in a large space.

A design pro can help you pick the paint color that will
account for the variables in your space that affect color.

2) Find the Right Products Quickly

Designers work on several design and remodeling projects throughout the year and can quickly navigate showrooms and online resources to help you narrow down to the right choices. What could take several trips around town and hours of personal online research to find, a designer professional can narrow down in much less time and make a more efficient process for you.

Let a designer narrow down design options for you from trusted sources to move decisions along quickly and make the best use of your time and money.

3) Tap Into a Network of Professionals  

Over the years, designers build a team of professionals they trust to work on various aspects of projects like painting, plumbing, refinishing and more. It can be difficult to find a tradesperson on your own that is trustworthy, reasonably-priced and does good work. Take advantage of a designer’s network and build a strong team for your project from the start.

Ready to enlist the help of a designer? Contact one of the professionals involved with this year’s Show House; you can also browse over 20 designer portfolios on the Indiana Design Center’s website.

Visit www.indianadesigncenter.com to browse designer portfolios online.

Spring Renewal for Your Home

Spring Renewal for Your Home 

Guest blog post submitted by the Indiana Design Center.

With spring around the corner, it’s natural to think about the updates and tweaks that will breathe new life into your home. At the Indiana Design Center (IDC), showrooms and design professionals are taking note of national and international design movements seen within new product introductions and design markets. Around the design center, you’ll find a prevalence of Pantone’s 2017 Color of the Year, Greenery, and of designers dreaming up luxurious outdoor living spaces. 

Renew. Refresh. Reinvigorate. These are all words that come to mind when one thinks of spring and Pantone’s Color of the Year, Greenery, is the perfect hue to start your design renewal. Seen on runways around the globe and furniture introductions from Milan to High Point, Greenery has been creeping onto the design world’s radar.

So how do you integrate Greenery into your space? Reupholster a chair or two. Throw down a rug with verdant tones of green. Bring nature inside with a statement-making, large scale plant such as a fiddle leaf fig tree. Paint a room with it. Whatever the scale at which you choose to incorporate green, it will be sure to lift your spirits and give you hope for the future. 

Living room design by Design Studio Vriesman
with green Knoll Saarinen executive chairs. 

Outdoor Living Space

Outdoor living spaces have become true extensions of the home’s interior and boast the luxuries we enjoy indoors like kitchens, weather-resistant TVs, comfortable seating and cozy fire features. Homeowners are investing and entertaining in these spaces like never before and spring is the perfect time to start your project so it can be enjoyed through the summer and fall.

Sonoma gas fireplace from Godby Hearth & Home, suite 113 at IDC.

Ready to reimagine your space for 2017? Showrooms and professionals at the IDC keep their fingers on the pulse of the industry and combine to make up the best design resource across the state — all under one roof. The IDC is open to the public and located in downtown Carmel at 200 South Rangeline Road. Visit indianadesigncenter.com for details and call 317-569-5975 to set up your personal tour.

Indiana Design Center, Carmel, Indiana