Interior Design Support Shaped Around Your Space
Whether you need guidance for one room, help bringing several ideas
together ordesign support through a larger renovation, My Secret Dwelling begins by understanding what you need your space to do, how you want it to fell and what matters most to you.
Interior Design Process
Interior Design Questionnaire
A questionnaire will be completed before the discovery call occurs. This document helps to clarify the scope of the project and saves time during the discovery call. It also allows the client enough time to provide thoughtful feedback.
Discovery (Inquiry) Call
This communication is the connection between the client, scope of work and the designer where details of the project are clarified with more information. The client and designer can ask questions and provide insight.
The next step can be a consultation or a Design service contract.
Consultation
1 or 2 hours in-person visit or virtual call to answer any design questions and address areas of concern. This can also serve as a color consultation.
Design Service Proposal & Contract
My Secret Dwelling provides a proposal for work and a contract with the scope of work and designer fees.
Conceptual Design
This is a time of gathering inspiration and engaging the imagination, brainstorming, using design boards and considering specific design styles.
Design Development
Clear understanding of client’s requirements and space. Put ideas together, sketching, renderings, contractor collaborations. Finalizing layouts, furniture arrangements, color schemes, lighting, finishes, ensuring the materials align with vision.
The Final Design Phase/Project Management
Coordinating with contractors, architects, artisans and vendors to implement the design. Monitor progress made, resolve any issues, and make sure quality of work is up to par.
Overseeing every aspect of implementation.
Project Wrap Up/Final Walk Through
Final walkthrough making any modifications to existing designs. Examples of modifications: changing lighting levels, furniture arrangements, adding finishing touches on the final design.
Start With What Your Space Needs
Every design project is different. Some clients need professional direction before making their next decision. Others need help with layout, color, furnishing,or lighting. Larger projects may require conceptual design, renovation support and coordination through implementation.
My Secret Dwelling offers a range of interior design services that can be matched to the needs and scope of your project.
Design Support for the Decisions in Front of You
You do not need to choose the perfect service before reaching out. The first conversation can help clarify what level of support makes sense.
Consultation: In person or Virtual
A consultation gives you dedicated time to discuss your space, questions and design concerns with Cheryl. We will talk about what is working, what is not, the ideas you are considering and how you want the space to feel. The consultation can help clarify your next decisions and determine whether additional design support would be useful. Consultations may also focus specifically on color when that is the primary need.
Color Palettes
Color, pattern and texture influence the mood, movement and visual connection within a space. My Secret Dwelling helps develop combinations that work together and support the atmosphere you want to create, giving individual areas a more cohesive relationship to the interior as a whole.
Conceptual Design
Sometimes you know you want change but need help seeing what is possible. Conceptual design brings together inspiration, design direction, style considerations and early visual ideas so you can
begin seeing how the space might come together before moving further into design development.
Interior Design
Interior design brings the individual elements of your space into one cohesive direction. From layout and color to furnishings, materials and decorative details, the goal is to create an environment that is visually pleasing, comfortable, functional and reflective of the people who use it.
Space Planning
A room can contain beautiful pieces and still feel wrong when the layout does not support the way the space needs to function. Space planning considers movement, furniture placement, scale and the way people use the room so the design works practically as well as visually.
Furniture and Material Collections
The right furnishings and materials help establish both the function and character of a space. My Secret Dwelling helps select pieces, finishes, textures and materials that work together, suit the design direction and contribute to a cohesive finished environment.
Lighting
Lighting affects more than visibility. It influences how a room is experienced throughout the day. Design considerations may include natural light, fixture selection, placement, layered lighting and the
atmosphere you want to create within the space.
Renovations, Remodel, and New Spaces
Larger projects often require design decisions to be made alongside construction and renovation planning. My Secret Dwelling can help establish and carry the design direction through selections, layouts, finishes and collaboration with the other professionals involved in the project.
Installment Support and Project Management
A strong design still has to make its way from concept into the actual room. Depending on the project scope, My Secret Dwelling can coordinate with contractors, architects, artisans and vendors, help oversee design implementation and address details that arise as the project moves toward
completion.
A clear First Path
Depending on the project, the detailed process may include a discovery conversation, consultation, proposal and contract, conceptual design, design development, implementation support and a final walkthrough.
Share your vision.
Tell us what you want your home or office to feel like, what is not working now and what you hope the space will communicate.
Explore the Possibilities
Together, we consider style, function, natural elements, meaningful pieces, color, texture, light and flow.
Create a Space That Feels like Home
We move toward a space that feels personal, peaceful, cohesive and connected to the way you want to live, work or gather.
Not Sure What Kind of Design Help You Need
You do not have to choose the perfect service before reaching out. Start by telling us about your space, what you are considering and where you feel stuck. The first conversation can help clarify the appropriate next step.