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Why Home Owners Keep Hiring Interior Designers

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Interior Designers - The Top 2 Misconceptions That Keep Home Owners From Hiring an Interior Designer

By Jeff Mifsud

As an Interior Designer in Atlanta, GA for the last eight years, I’ve noticed a few common threads running through the most popular misconceptions about using Interior Designers. If you’ve never used an interior designer, ask yourself why right now.

Go ahead. I’ll wait.

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Wow, that was quick! I bet you have a pretty good answer, too. I also bet your answer falls into one of the following two major categories:

1) COST: “I can’t afford one. Using an Interior Designer is an excessive luxury reserved for the wealthiest of people that live in mansions and drive Bentley’s.” Or, “I’ll save money if I do all the design work myself, which means I can buy more furniture.”

2) CREATIVE EXPRESSION: “If I use an Interior Designer, I’m afraid I’ll feel like my home won’t be an expression of my unique style and tastes. I have good taste - I can do this on my own.”

If your answer for not hiring an interior designer fits into one of these categories, then read on for some answers that might surprise you.

First of all, I want you to know these reactions are completely normal and understandable based on the amount of information that exists in the marketplace about how the client/ designer process works.