Focus On: Finding a designer for your project

So you’ve got a vision for your home design, you’ve set a budget and you are ready to take the first step towards your dream space. Suddenly you find yourself overwhelmed as you try to wade through the Google results for home designer.

Hearing about so many situations like this is what drove Emily Barnes to launch Design for Me, an online platform that matches your project with a designer – much like a dating site.

I’ve asked Emily to explain to me how to find the right the professional, why it’s important to ask questions and how to make sure there’s good communication between the designer and yourself.

What is Design for Me and how does it help self-builders and renovators?

Design for Me is an online platform for property owners to connect with architects, interior and garden designers. The goal is to match people’s plans and ideas with the best professional to help deliver the scheme.

The designers in our database focus on residential works – they are often small practices and start-ups or simply studios whose passion is home design. This means the platform instantly weeds out all the bigger, commercial practices that perhaps show up on search engines but may not be right for a standard kitchen extension.

When a person posts their project to the website, we send it out across our database so professionals can show their interest.

The profiles have been tailored to make it easy to compare like-for-like, so it’s a lot less overwhelming than looking at companies’ websites separately. For instance, if you are searching for someone who specialises in eco builds, you can easily discover who has experience in that field.

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