We haven’t updated our house’s interior in 15 years and it’s in bad shape. I have no sense of style or design so need to hire a professional to tell me what to do. Can anyone recommend a good designer in the DSM area? TIA
Recommendation for interior designer in DSM metro
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Save your money and Paint everything cardinal and gold.
Save yourself some quan and put up flyers at ISU in the College of Design seeing if students would be interested in helping you out. I guarantee you'd get responses. Students will take any chance they can get to do real-world work and add to their professional portfolio, you'd get young and fresh perspective at a very heavy discount. Win/Win/Win
Iowa requires Interior designers to be licensed. You may get a student in trouble
You serious, Clark?
Surely even OUR government wouldn't have such a ludicrous requirement. What benefit could there possibly be for a designer to be licensed..?
A bachelor's and a NCIDQ.......................it's BS. My advice to the OP is to just get yourself someone who knows how to do it i.e. "decorator". Ask around. Designing interiors isn't a science or even a trade. And you don't need a "professional" to do it right.
This was just discussed in one of the Iowa house committees. Their reasoning is things like the ADA and fire codes
https://plb.iowa.gov/board/interior-designers
There is a place in NW Iowa that I have not personally used but have had friends use them before and they had great results. The main store is in Storm Lake and is called The Elements by K Sorbe. Probably in the past year they opened a store in Ankeny and it’s called The Elements at Prarie Trail. The Elements have a bunch of different levels of service at different price points. I know my friends would recommend them highly.
https://www.elementsbyksorbe.com/
I'm very curious about this (I'm a licensed engineer, but don't do anything with residential). I'm hoping you can clear it up for me. My initial reaction was the same to the previous poster in that, I don't understand what a license would be protecting the public from.
The ADA stuff makes sense, but wouldn't that fall under the purview of an (licensed) architect, not an interior designer? Maybe I don't understand the profession enough, but to me, an interior designer does colors, textures, finishes, etc, but doesn't do anything with structure.
When I questioned this, I was told that a interior designer can prepare interior drawings as long as they that do not affect the structural or mechanical systems of a building
Guess Iowa wants to make sure that all building codes are followed
