A Day in the Life of an Interior Designer

A day in the life of an interior designer. The days start with coffee...fancy espresso machines are a bonus, but any coffee will do. We meet weekly as a team to review our project milestones, assign tasks and work on our quarterly "design that restore" projects. We also meet in smaller groups to review project details: for example, tile selections, CAD drawings and kitchen designs. Lunch, snacks and charcuterie boards are usually prominently involved. Some days, we visit vendors to review selections for specific projects (like all the tile), and other days we visit vendors to gain product knowledge, gather samples we might use in the future, or just spend time with our vendor representatives whom we have come to know and trust.

Most importantly, we meet with our clients!

Initial meetings and design plan presentations are always done in person, and we love to meet with our clients in their homes so we can get to know them and their design style better. Many of our projects last over a year, so we like to keep the communication on-going with both our clients and the project managers.

What are the less glamorous (but very much needed!) parts of our job? Monitoring budgets and allowances, unexpected delays or mistakes, carrying and lugging things around, accounting (well I did leave this career behind for a reason - HA!). Every job has its less desirable points, but we are truly grateful to be able to design homes, to guide our clients as they bring restoration to their families through their homes.