Your best friend probably knows your favorite color and how you take your coffee, and your partner knows what type of art you like. You know which rooms get the most use in your home and how you fill your time using that space. These are all intimate details your interior designer should know about you as well.
Working with clients is about providing them with what they want. Whether modern or traditional, in a specific color scheme or with an eclectic flair, a client’s style is singularly their own and should be a direct reflection of their personality and how they live their life.
A home should nurture and relax, while reflecting what’s important to you. Home is a place where you can take a deep breath and leave behind the hectic world around us. Home should be a place that when you walk through the front door, you feel good. You may not know why, but it just feels right.
To achieve the feeling of home, the most important step is to develop a relationship with your interior designer (and the designer with their client). Meet in your home, share how you live within your home, talk about family and whatever else is important to you. In between meetings, look at homes on Houzz or Pinterest and create a portfolio of likes and dislikes. You don’t have to define what it is you like or not; simply recognize when something you’re looking at makes you feel good.
My own home is a true reflection of my appreciation for all different design styles; from modern to historic to European farmhouse, I have bits and pieces of several styles represented – in simple fashion – throughout my home. It is a true representation of the way I live, my family, travels and life experiences.
Paula M. Breuwet-Cohen
PC Designs LLC