Our Home Furnishing Process: What to Expect
Dec 22, 2022

Our Home Furnishing Process: What to Expect

Furnishing your home involves some pretty big decisions. Between trying to find pieces that suit your personal taste and lifestyle, all while being supremely comfortable and functional, the process can involve many hurdles and challenges before finally getting it right.

To make matters more complicated, when furnishing your home yourself, you’ve also got to deal with all the moving parts involved in project management. You’ve just got to hope that it all comes together in time when liaising with the different tradespeople and vendors, so you’re not stuck eating your dinner off your lap while sitting on lawn furniture for weeks on end.

As professional interior designers, we’ve made things simple for our clients with a seamless home furnishing process so you can enjoy impeccable results without any unnecessary headaches. Let’s look at our step-by-step process that outlines exactly what to expect when you work with one of our expert interior designers.

1. Discovery call

The first step is to schedule your discovery call with one of our friendly, professional designers. Call us or fill out our online contact form here, and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible so you can start creating your dream home.

Your design journey should be deeply personal, so it’s important to see if we are a good fit for one another before making any commitments. During your discovery call, we’ll get to know your unique style, your needs, and your expectations for your project.

2. Consultation at home

At your in-home furniture and design consultation, we’ll walk through your space together to better understand the size and scale of your home, how you use your space, and how you want it to feel. Meeting you in person gives us a better grasp of who you are and your unique personality so we can reflect that back in the style and furnishing choices for your home.

We’ll ask you questions to fully explore every detail of your design plan. This is an essential part of the process to ensure practicality and functionality, especially concerning furniture design and placement. 

3. Designing each space

Whether you’re reimagining just a single room or transforming your entire home, we will begin crafting your design concept and floor plan. We focus on creating incredible spaces that are perfectly tied together with a cohesive theme and flow, while being true to your personality and lifestyle needs.

As professionals, we understand how furniture functions within a space and how to maximize furniture designs and placement for a flow that suits your life, allowing you to experience your home in a totally new way. Comfort is key when it comes to furniture, and that is at the forefront of our approach to furnishing your home.

4. Furniture design presentation

Now the real fun begins for you! Your personal design presentation brings the vision for your home to life with beautifully detailed renderings and floor plans. You’ll enjoy getting to experience your design plans and sampling products and materials in person, creating a more tangible idea of how your space will look and feel.

With 2D designs, you’ll see how your furniture will look in your space and how the room layout flows, created for optimal functionality and comfort. With our premium design experience, you’ll  enjoy additional 3D renderings for even more in-depth and realistic insight into your proposed designs.

5. Home furnishings selection at our studio

Once you’re happy with everything from your design presentation, you can select all of your furniture and furnishings in our Dallas design studio.

You’ll receive supportive guidance in choosing the right furniture for you and your space. With our in-depth knowledge of design and the industry, we can advise on what will work best in terms of style, quality, comfort, and flow for your space so that you can have the ultimate home designer experience.

6. Procurement of furniture and trade coordination

After you’ve selected your furniture and materials, we order all the products for you and look after the management of the whole process. We receive your furnishings and then store them until everything is ready to be delivered and installed by our professional white glove service company..

We’ve carefully refined our process to be as efficient as possible and totally stress-free. Everything is taken care of for you, so all you have to do is wait for the big reveal!

7. Install day and big reveal of furniture design

Our team of diligent, friendly design professionals ensures a smooth installation in the shortest time possible so you can enjoy your space sooner rather than later.

All furniture and rugs will be in place, art installed, and draperies hung. We take care of everything down to the smallest decorative accessory and pillow detail styled to your liking for your big reveal and ready for you to enjoy! You’ll love stepping into a totally fresh space with beautiful, comfortable furniture you’ll enjoy for many years.

8. The astonishing end result

We like to design and style for impact in your big reveal. Not only are things beautifully arranged, but also the placement makes practical sense too.

Your home will be ready to be lived in, allowing you to relax, settle in, and start making memories immediately. You’ll enjoy the personalized luxury of a professionally furnished and designed space for years to come.

When it’s this simple to furnish your home the right way with the help of professional designers, why wait any longer? Whether you’re furnishing your new home from scratch or are reimaging a tired space, we can help you achieve your design dreams without the headaches.

Schedule your discovery call now and get one step closer to pure personal luxury.

Testimonials

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"I had a wonderful experience working with Design Lifestyles, and I love how they have transformed my home! Kim and Lauren are extremely talented and really good at discerning and respecting a client’s likes, dislikes and personal style.

I love how they presented me with options.   I could choose furnishings and materials, without being overwhelmed with too many choices.  It was fun, and it felt good to participate in the process of creating a pretty, cozy home for my family. Their attention to detail is amazing.  Every color, fabric, pattern and accessory is coordinated and intentional, without being too “matchy,” if that makes sense. I also have to say, Kim has a calm, reassuring demeanor that really helps in the midst of a remodel.

Kim and Lauren are kind, talented ladies, and they are a joy to work with.  Stephanie and Kelly are lovely to work with as well! Thank you, Design Lifestyles team! I hope I get to work with you again on future projects!"

Luisa A.

"We’ve hired Design Lifestyles for two rooms in our house now, and are very happy with both results. In each case, they were very receptive and responsive to our inputs and worked to be sure we got the design just right and to a place where we were comfortable with it. They also manage the procurement and install of furniture for one of our rooms and did an excellent job making that process easy and fun for us.

The quality of the design was fantastic, they were very accommodative in working with us, and we are quite happy with how they’ve improved two rooms in our house."

John Sturdivant

"I had a wonderful experience working with Design Lifestyles, and I love how they have transformed my home! Kim and Lauren are extremely talented and really good at discerning and respecting a client’s likes, dislikes and personal style.

I love how they presented me with options.   I could choose furnishings and materials, without being overwhelmed with too many choices.  It was fun, and it felt good to participate in the process of creating a pretty, cozy home for my family. Their attention to detail is amazing.  Every color, fabric, pattern and accessory is coordinated and intentional, without being too “matchy,” if that makes sense. I also have to say, Kim has a calm, reassuring demeanor that really helps in the midst of a remodel.

Kim and Lauren are kind, talented ladies, and they are a joy to work with.  Stephanie and Kelly are lovely to work with as well! Thank you, Design Lifestyles team! I hope I get to work with you again on future projects!"

Luisa A.

"We absolutely LOVE Design Lifestyles!! Shortly after moving into our brand-new house, we had some an idea of how we wanted it to look inside.  However, we soon found ourselves extremely overwhelmed by all the options at our local furniture stores, along with the thousand of ideas from social media sites. To add to our challenge, we have 3 young children that keep us very busy throughout the week. We really needed some professional help, so we contacted Design Lifestyles. After our initial meeting with Kim, we knew we wanted to work with her.  Throughout the entire process, Kim really listened to our desires and took detailed notes of our vision.  She also challenged us to think through the process since we had never hired a design firm before. Kim brought a tremendous amount of creativity and suggested amazing ideas/layouts/colors that we never thought of or imagined we would love. She and her team were very professional, kind, upfront with expectations and on top every single detail of our project. On our reveal day, we were blown away by how Kim had turned our house into a beautiful warm and inviting HOME.  There is no way we could have ever done this without Kim’s expertise, hard work and commitment to her clients.  Our words of gratitude do not adequately express the joy we feel each day living in our new home.

We highly recommend Design Lifestyles to help anyone looking for assistance with your interior design needs. She is amazingly talented at what she does and is truly a treasure to work with.  Looking forward to working with her again in the future!"

Jason H.

"We had the opportunity to work with Design Lifestyles earlier this year to remodel our kitchen and fireplace wall.  I had been following these very talented women on Instagram for nearly two years so I was familiar with their design aesthetic and could not wait to finally have the chance to see them in action. Starting with a very comprehensive in home meeting we discussed what we loved and what we wanted to change in addition to our budget.  Based on this meeting and our Pinterest boards, they created two very thoughtful and gorgeous design renderings for our home. This is truly where the magic happened and we were blown away with their ideas from materials, fabric, and reworking the functionality of our kitchen. They provided us with a detailed budget and a work schedule that stayed on track.  We have never had a project that went as smooth as this.  The attention to detail from small gadgets to proper tile placement, was 100% handled by Kim, Lauren, and Kelly.  Let's talk about the contractors they hired for our project, every single one of them who bid and completed a job was truly a professional.  Not one person didn't show up or came late and we would happily work with anyone of these trades again.  There is so much value in hiring this talented team, we look forward to doing it again when we re-do our master bath. Thank you ladies for bringing the love of what you do to our home. We have enjoyed the new space immensely."

Susan Holdrich
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