Design Fee Structure
Design a Space provide a free-of-charge 90 minute consultation meeting to new clients either in our showroom in Amersham, or at your property within a 10-mile radius of our Amersham showroom*. During this consultation meeting, the designer and client have a chance to get to know one another, to view the areas involved in your home or business where you anticipate developing the space and to discuss initial ideas, budgets and fee structures applicable to your project.
After the initial meeting and if both parties are interested in moving forward, the first stage design service which Design A Space offers involves a £600 fee**. The brief for this fee commitment and the scope of design work included will be based on the initial 90 minute consultation meeting and will be confirmed within a document, outlining how the 12 hours of designer time will be attributed.
Upon receipt of the 50% of the fee, the designated designer will begin work on the project, adhering to the budgets and agreed time constraints. Throughout the process, the client is able to contribute additional thoughts as this is a very fluid process between the two parties and the designer will do their best to incorporate these thoughts whilst expertly guiding the first stage design to an effective conclusion.
The client will then be invited to our Amersham showroom for a presentation of the ideas, which may take the form of plans, moodboards, sketches or computer-generated visuals which will be available for the client to take away, on payment of the final 50% of the initial £600 fee.
Should the client wish to proceed to a further stage of the detailed design and specification, an additional fee is payable depending on the complexity of the further work. This may range from an additional hour or two of design work for small alterations to an initial scheme at a rate of £60/hour, or extend to a full-scale design project whereby Design a Space designers design, specify and supply everything within a new scheme, including trades people, furniture, floor coverings and accessories.
Design A Space can undertake complete project management for any design and build works and a fee structure for such works can be prepared, on a job-by-job basis, depending on specifics.
*mileage to be charged at the standard rate of 46p per mile beyond a 10-mile radius of the DAS showroom
**all prices inclusive of VAT