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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s so frustrating and why I can’t work with a designer.

We were installing carpet in an entire house and the flooring company did provide us with a designer for that. I was skeptical but went to meet her just for fun. I came away really dazzled by her guidance, especially because she was young and seemingly inexperienced.

I gave her really basic ideas- like wool carpet, a preppy look for certain rooms, and ideas about texture in others. For one room I just gave her a vibe. She ran with it and from an huge showroom of samples she pulled 20-30 samples and worked with me to narrow it down to the 5 different carpets we used across the entire house.

I would say that I liked something for one reason or hated it for another, and she used that to narrow the funnel of options rapidly as well as expand her ideas when needed. In my mind, that’s the ideal designer- a thought partner who understands the resources that exist and can match them to the sense they get of your goals. The woman we worked with was not paid by us but I am thinking about hiring her for one-off projects in the future.[/quote]

This is how it should be. A designer should get your vibe; ours had me create a "style file" of things I liked -- pages from design magazines, pieces of furniture we already had and wanted to use, even clothing and jewelry. And she was willing to suggest less-expensive things when appropriate, such as Ikea pieces for a kid's room, but also to-the-trade things for the grown-ups [/quote]

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