How to present your interior design ideas to clients

After all, not every design concept is a winner. This is exactly why client presentations are a crucial part of every interior designer’s job. If you truly want to create an impact, the way you recent your ideas to the client is important. This is exactly why it is essential to begin only after you are convinced and completely confident about your designs. Only then will you be able to take the client through a visual journey through the design concept that you are presenting.

To begin with, the initial phase in design is very critical. Gathering inspiration to put together a presentation board is quite a creative process which is time consuming too. What you do in this phase decides how the remaining of the design or project will go. So, before you begin, talk extensively to the client and gather all the relevant information. It’s important to find out a little about the family and the members living in the house, their age groups, their general lifestyle and most importantly – their budget. Taking measurements and photographs of the place is also essential. When you have all the data at hand, you can begin working on the design plan. Well, presenting your plans to clients is a different challenge altogether. Here are a few tips to help you with the presentations:

Design boards
Design boards form the foundation of design presentations. Simple boards with pins and paper are highly effective. Print out each piece of furniture and use pins to ‘pin’ it up on the design board. In this way, you can move the pieces around and explain to your customers why a certain piece will look better in the living room and not the study. You can also use cut outs of fabric for upholstery and curtains. Design boards are a great way to present your clients with a basic idea of the design.

Digital designs
Digital designs give a realistic view of what the design will look like after it is completed. Pictures and Photoshop versions of the most probable design gives the client a fair idea of what the house will look like when finished. It is more convincing than printed boards.

CAD drawn furniture plan
A software drawn design is more accurate in terms of measurements and proportions. It gives the client proper reasoning for the selection of certain furniture due to either space restrictions or abundance.

3D models
3D models allow you to describe the project more effectively to the client. It need not always be a physical model; a computer based 3D model could also be used to virtually walk the client through the designs.

Finally, if you have any real samples to show, such as fabrics that will be used or materials, it would put the entire design in the right light.

Above all, be confident. Confidence could make or break any social interaction! It’s the key to convince your clients that you are right on track for the job you are hired!

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Is your interior design just not coming together? Tips to shake up your style a bit!

Sometimes as a designer, we tend to get into a zone where we are too comfortable with a particular type of style or design. Familiarity and comfort often reflect on our work and many of our projects begin to look like they have a similar ‘touch’. Your interior design just does not seem to come together.  Well, whenever you find yourself in this kind of a design rut – it’s important to challenge yourself and shake up your style a bit! Design ruts are not just boring places to be in, but are dangerous too. Here’s how you can bust that rut and move on to an interesting design style for each of your projects.

Start by thinking something different
Especially is it is a project that involves redesign of an existing home, you can start with flipping your perspective of the entire space. Thinking out of the box is essential here. Otherwise, you can simply try a reshuffle of the entire decor in the house. Switch whole rooms – do something different. If it’s a fresh design, put on your thinking caps and conjure up a new design!

Switch it up – make things dramatic
Sometimes thinking of something dramatic could make all the difference. Take a look at the artwork you have at hand. Is there something dramatic you could do with it? Are there some unusual that you could add to it? Think of everything that could help you redesign your design.

Do something out of character
It’s evident that when the usual things don’t work out, it’s time to do something out of character. Even as designers we tend to go along with things that are comfortable for us. We find ourselves attracted to certain colours and certain styles of interior designs. So, think out of the box, and try something that you would have never thought – think wild.

Get some distance
If your design is just not coming together, move away from the place for a while – travel places. Gathering inspiration from different places is a good idea. It gives you a different outlook towards designs. After you feel inspired enough, get back to the project you were working on. You will see that your perspective has changed and the distance made all the difference.

Online resources
There are a number of portals online that have emerged recently that allow designers to save their design inspirations. You will find that over a period of time, you have enough ideas to work with! Well, other social media sites such as Pinterest and design sites are a good place to look too.

So, whenever in a design rut, always make sure that you stop – think – and if possible distance yourself from the project for a while. You will see the same space with a fresh outlook and you can let your imaginations run wild and rethink all the design elements more clearly.

Each design project must look unique and still should reflect your personal style. However, sometimes, even the best designers find themselves in a design rut – completely out of new ideas! That’s when you need to take a break and rethink your options – and everything will fall back into place!

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The Trend of 3D Prints in Interior Design

In a modern world with technology that allows designers to use 3d printing, the interior design industry has been revolutionised. A quick look at any interior design portal will explain to you how 3d printing is the next big thing. Designers are going crazy as the possibilities are endless and the results are out of the world. This article will tell you more about this new trend that has taken over the world by storm.

Lamps and home decor articles
By the process of adding layer upon layer to achieve desired shapes and results, porcelain, metals and other materials are being used to create new age designs that were unthinkable before. Whatever the designer can draw or design, can be turned into reality very simply. Intricate designs and the use of new materials are changing the entire concept of home decor. Lamps have been made that look like they’ve been made from lace. Animal heads as wall lights and chandeliers in the shape of bicycle gear have come into being. Geometric patterns and artistic craftsmanship have changed the concept of aesthetic lighting.

Waterworks
Facets in the bathroom no longer have the same conventional look. Innovating sinks and taps with intricately carved out designs are being made. These designs are absolutely new age and would not have been possible without 3d printing.

Furniture
Chairs with backs that have intricate cut-out designs add a lovely look. Most furniture are built in different parts and then assembled together. Adding even one of these pieces to your home will make it the talking point for guests.

Eco-friendly designs
With the need for conservation of nature, 3d printing is also being used to develop eco friendly furniture or decor items. These blend in parts of nature and make the interiors of your house more aesthetic.

Nobody even a decade ago could have imagined the growth and functioning of a form of technology that can prototype designs into physical things. Traditional methods of manufacturing wouldn’t; have allowed that. Personalised designs, intricate details and a high level of creativity come to the forefront if you browse through an interior design portal that offers 3d printing.