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5 Things your designer wants you to know before you start planning your move

Professional interior designer services will be an integral part of your move process. Joining the project team at the earliest planning stage, we share the excitement of planning, the angst of negotiating, the trials of construction and the success that arrives when the move is complete.

The experience can be a roller coaster trip, and we’d like to give you 5 tips to smooth out the ride. 

  1. With your designer’s input, establish how much square footage you will need over the term of your lease before you start looking for space. If you try to skimp, you’re diminishing your employees’ ability to perform effectively. If you take too much space, you’re wasting dollars on rent that could be better spent elsewhere.
  2. Determine in advance how much you can afford for rent and how much extra you can go out of pocket for the fit out and new furniture.  Share this budget with your designer so they can design a budget-appropriate space that addresses your priorities.
  3. Get all decision makers on board early and keep your decision-making team small. Too many players can generate expensive, confusing revisions. The process is better managed as an enlightened monarchy than a democracy.
  4. Focus properly on the decisions needed for construction and personally review your construction documents, or delegate it to someone who can do so for you, before the drawings go out to bid. Poor communication can have negative, expensive results.
  5. Don’t schedule your open house until the art has arrived!  It takes a while to complete the punch list properly and to settle into the new space. The panic surrounding an unrealistic open house date is completely avoidable.

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PLDA Interiors is a professional interior architecture firm specializing in commercial office and healthcare space. We have registered architects and certified interior designers on staff to bring you the highest level of competence, professionalism and creativity. Visit us at www.pldainteriors.com or call Barbara Portnoy at 410-234-8998 to discuss your next project with us.