Create An Interior Design Project With Your Partner
You live with your partner and you’ve decided to decorate your home with the help of an interior designer, but here comes the problem. Both of you have very dissimilar tastes, like and dislikes and you can’t find a way to compromise on your design ideas for the home that you share.
Employing or commissioning an interior designer or interior decorator to come sort out the problem for you may only be half the solution. An interior designer goes to school to learn their art. However as an interior designer is also a business person, they know that they must leave a project with the customer(s) completely happy with the work they have done, otherwise they won’t get referred on to other friends of family. They therefore have to find a way to please both parties and this will never be the case if both parties are at loggerheads over the design ideas.
It behooves you and your partner, the customers, to find a way to compromise your differing tastes so that you both can work with your interior design professional to get an outcome from your home renovation that you will both love.
Compromising Your Interior Design Ideas
There are different strategies that you can use to ensure that your the designs you will be creating with your partner and the interior designer work for everyone. One approach you can take is to split your home into zones that for which one partner has responsibility. Try to decide on areas of your home that have some sort of meaning to you when dividing the project. Perhaps your partner spends and enjoys being in the Kitchen, whilst you enjoy the living room. It would be easy to let your partner have the responsibility of deciding the decor, layout and remodelling of the kitchen with the interior designer, then you have the responsibility of the living room.
In this way, each feels they are contributing to the project, utilizing their best ideas for an area of your home that you each love.
Another solution is to try to find common areas of interest and taste. Often a brain storming session will highlight these common areas and in this way decisions are made quickly and without much conflict. Perhaps a small compromise in one area by one partner gives the other the opportunity to get their design idea accepted in another.
The whole point of this exercise is to find areas of compromise where at first there seems to be none. Of course, if you and your partner have the same exact tastes in interior decor, this situation would not arise in the first place and so you are able to create the interior design project with your partner that you both love. However this is often not the scenario that most of us face. It is therefore ideal if you can find the compromise, find the areas where there is least conflict or aversion to the others ideas.
This will ensure that your interior design project runs as smooth as can be, and will ensure that your interior designer or interior decorator can satisfy both clients and so leave their reputation intact once the project is over.
What is more, either your or your partner may find you have a certain flair for interior decorating and may venture to take a class or gain interior design qualifications as the result of a successful project that you’ve been able to accomplish together.
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DIY can be easy, so long as you have the right resources, like this one! I recommend low cost online interior design packages as well. These can provide some solid direction, but yet arent so rigid. The idea is to use the general guidelines (architectural style, color palette preferences, etc) and allow the entire household to collaborate on the applications that work best for everyone.