Respect their opinions, privacy and confidentiality
Honor their budget
Respond to their calls and deadlines in a timely fashion
Grant access to my full range of creative resources
My client can also expect my enthusiasm and my commitment to the project.
What I would like from my clients:
Offer and fully express their vision, opinions and preferences
Openness to consider creative options and solutions
Clarity regarding their budget
Patience with the process
Fee
Hourly fee is $125 per hour, billed on an hourly basis at the end of the month. Payment is requested within 10 days of receipt of an invoice. A detailed explanatory record will be kept for those hours, and outlined.
Billable hours include time spent with or without the client in their home, design center or shopping, and my hours creating room plans and doing research.
Purchases
You will have full access to all of the relationships I have built in the retail market. If an item is "exclusive to the trade" you will be charged my cost plus 25%, plus shipping, receiving and delivery. In this case payment in full is required to place the order. There are no refunds or exchanges on custom orders.
There are times when I will require a retainer, depending on the size and scope of the project.
I look forward to assisting you in creating an artfully designed space that will reflect who you are.
COLOR CONSULTATION
Color transforms more efficiently than any other design action. I work with you to create a color composition of your home. In trying to describe that composition, we speak of harmony, balance, warmth, comfort, surprise, but those words, individually or in sum, can't capture the rightness and ease of a good color plan implemented. An effective consultation isn't rocket science, but seeing colors in their rightness is a gift and I am pleased to have it.
Fee
Two hours for $250, with a written plan and all the design ideas I can summon in that time.
FENG SHUI
I find satisfaction in creating living spaces in which there is an aesthetically pleasing and comfortable balancing of color, space, material, texture and energy - a long time practitioner of Feng Shui, I am convinced environment affects energy and harmony. In its subtle reaches, Feng Shui is the study of how to refine an environment to enhance the flow of ch'i, life force energy. Taken deep or kept simple, Feng Shui is committed to the conviction that our living spaces should nourish our body, mind and spirit. I have a gift for color and envision schemes pleasing in ways simple and subtle. During your Feng Shui consultation, I will bring all of the above into the mix while incorporating my clients needs and preferences.
Fee
Up to two hours - $270
SPACELIFT
Rooms you don't use or like? Try a spacelift, which transforms your home through fresh eyes and the magic of placement. We'll create aesthetic impact by finding a room's focal point and solving problems of balance, harmony, flow, comfort. We'll shop your home and use what you have to discover grace and charm. Some call it redesign, but that doesn't capture the freshness, and the instant gratification, of a spacelift. Wall colors if you want, further design steps if you insist, but the heart of the mission is a one day makeover that will leave you open for a party that night.
