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[quote=Anonymous]OP - This all depends on the agreement you reached with Designer at start of working with her. Hourly fees plus materials’ mark ups normal but if you take on the ordering and arranged to take that work on at the beginning-good for you. As others have mentioned some material/products are only available to the trade and if that’s not important to you you can forego those products but the relationships and investment a skilled designer has developed w/various companies creates good will (translation includes timely delivery, accommodation especially on smaller deliveries, trouble shooting and no questions asked warranties.) The Designer I worked with tweaked custom
furniture to make sure the stain & finish I really wanted was done (even though it wasn’t offered as an option.); she worked with the tile supplier to locate enough of a discontinued pattern to use as an accent in my backsplash. When my $6K bed frame developed an odd crack (not structural) 3 years after we bought she got it repaired for us for free. 
I have also used designers just to produce a floor plan with options listed and ordered materials myself. If I calculated cost of my time spent on that process it probably would have been more than what I would have paid the knowledgeable professional to do insteas.[/quote]

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