Designing a healthy home at your pace is easy.

 

Developing an Interior Design plan is essential and should be available to all.

 

HBZ helps ease the process by offering an affordable, yet effective way to start your process.

 

Let’s explore the integrative design process and see how you can finance your design:

 

  1. Reach out to an interior designer at the first thought of designing your home. You don’t have to commit right away and reaching out to several designers helps you find the right fit. Upon reaching out, let the designer know everything you want. Then, they’ll draft a proposal.

 

  1. Look at the proposal the designer made and consider how many years you’d like to keep the design. For instance: proposal is divided by the number of years. The calculation is how much the design will cost per year. You can go even further and calculate how much per month. You’ll see that the proposal is not as shocking as we first thought.

 

  1. Write out a budget planner for a year or two and how much you can spend on elements and their installation per month.

 

  1. It’s okay to take baby steps by either having the designer focus on a couple rooms, or the entire home and focus the installation on a couple rooms at a time.

 

  1. Wait patiently — good and healthy design doesn’t happen in a day or a month. We may not see final results for a year or longer. Incremental steps help you finance your own project, without needing to take out a loan. Many homeowners refinance their home and put that money back into the design of their home: it is an investment after-all, and the improvements can positively impact resale and community values. Start with priority rooms and elements first. Look at what is still functional and what needs function.

 

  1. Consider DIY where applicable. Installing wainscoting is not any different from hanging a couple pictures. Wainscoting doesn’t need to be an elaborate installation, nor does it need to impact the integrity of the wall. No one is going to be so up-close to your wainscoting and start criticizing the fact that you only used nails.

 

All these steps are a part of the pre-planning and conceptual stages of the integrative design process.