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Someone who is dismissive or balks at paying for the value of the creative and customized product that designers provide will not be a good fit or a good client. I’m constantly honing my initial interview meeting questions to make sure I won’t waste my time or a potential clients time. That is definitely the problem, from everything I have seen! Designers really don’t make even a good living considering all the education, skill and knowledge they need to do the job, plus the expenses and risk of running a business. My conclusion is that society simply does not value the work they do. In my experience, many people think they can design just as well as a designer and many people really have no design sensibility- so why would they spend so much money for a designer?
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Train side-by-side with top designers, like former HGTV/TLC Design Show Host, Wanda Colón or New York Home Staging Guru, Kara Woods. Our instructors have decades of design experience. They know exactly what works in the real world. I would look for a designer with experience in construction. Or a designer that does “design and build” I used someone like that to redesign 2 bathrooms where walls had to be moved. She did the design work and I had my builder do the work.
CAP students gain hands-on design experience through lampshade project - CU Denver News
CAP students gain hands-on design experience through lampshade project.
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Which is why, even though I love design and would love to do the work, I don’t. It’s not worth my time, especially when you consider all of the aggravation designers go through working with clients. I never would have guessed that rates were so high. I mean no disrespect, you are all great at what you do, but who besides the 1% can actually afford to hire designers?
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For this project, Sara helped reduce my hours by doing some of her own sourcing, purchasing, and communicating with vendors. Sara coordinated all deliveries and did her own product inspection/inventory. I’d give Mac and Sara a B+ on being “easy to please and quick to make decisions,” which made this process more “cost-effective.” They were fairly good at communicating desires they had upfront and we shared a vibe/vision overall. Still, there were times where one would thumbs up right away and the other would pose questions, want more options, or want each piece to be stand-alone “wow” vs. “within the room wow.” And that’s totally fine. But those moments meant additional sourcing hours. Overall, I’d use them as a great model for how much back-and-forth might be “average” for a particular, yet not-hard-to-please client.
They’d rather pay me to do this work for them than lose time away from their jobs, or miss spending time with their family, or losing peace of mind during the project. They understand that this has value and they’re willing to pay me for that service and my knowledge. Personally, most of my time at work IS billable.
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Hands on Design: Through strength of will, Lindsey and Shane Hanson have turned art into a career - Austin Daily Herald - Austin Daily Herald
Hands on Design: Through strength of will, Lindsey and Shane Hanson have turned art into a career - Austin Daily Herald.
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A designer is carrying risk throughout a project and has to financially plan to eventually correct something that might go wrong. A freelancer only covering their bills/insurance who isn’t prepared to help right a wrong when something (hopefully rarely) gets dropped or missed end up being a less reliable designer. It’s why many designers opt to go into commercial design, where not every dollar spent is stressful to an individual/sometimes overly-questioned. It comes down to- who is actually paying for this?
I 100% know that I could not clean my home at the level a professional would/could do it in the same amount of time. I’d suggest maybe timing yourself sometime to do a full clean and see where you end up for amount of time versus what you’ve been quoted for their services. Might really end up being worth it in the end. If you want to work with a designer but these rates are out of reach, many home stores offer free design advice, often with experienced professionals who don’t want the risk of working for themselves. Alternatively you can look for a designer just starting out who will charge a lower rate. I have done commercial interior design work, never had my own residential business, but this all rings true.
There’s something to be said for the security of a salary. But it’s great to also see successful freelance tales. Insurance or retirement being set aside or 40 hours of pay guaranteed a week. I have to confess, doing all the research for this post lined up serendipitously with my and Bowser’s recent leap into taking on our own clients.
Hi LC I think I understand where you’re coming from when you talk about the gravity of the work that you do compared to that of a designer picking furniture and drawings a room. While everyone could benefit from good design, design is mostly a luxury service. It has been democratized through online and e-design services, and even through blogs like Emily’s, but that still doesn’t mean that other designers are rushing to the lowest common denominator if they want to earn a living. From everything I have read about working as a consultant or an independent business person, you should charge 3-4 times the hourly rate you would make as an employee, just to come out even. I will say on the housekeeping topic, if this is not through a large company, but an individual who runs their own set of clients… health/dental/etc insurance is not cheap. If they have to pay out of pocket healthcare for themselves, and possibly their children, it makes sense that their rate would be $40-50.
