I have to say, I am often asked this and very often my reply is that an initial consultation can cost less that seeing an osteopath! Though in reality, most clients who need support require more than an hour but it can help steer you in the right direction. To give a general idea of cost, the hourly fee for an interior designer in the UK can range from £60-120ph depending on experience.
As a general rule of thumb, if an interior designer is appointed to work as part of a wider team on a construction project, their fees can range from 5-10% of the overall project value rising to 10-15% for design and project management services combined.
Although do remember, this is the cost as opposed to the value as interior design is often seen as a ‘luxury’ service. However, this misses an important consideration of the value and the savings that an interior designer brings to your project.
Louise aims to keep her fees to a minimum whilst finding the balance between affordability, value for money and those costly errors which can arise from a poorly coordinated design. She wants to reduce the stigma of interior design and project management only being for the few who can afford such a luxury service and actually encourage people generally to seek professional advise and support to create lasting design with decent build quality and thoughtful spaces which work.
She also offers her trade discounts to her clients which offsets her fees so much so that one client recently quoted “the budget she helped us save more than covered her fees three times over”.