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Join Joann Kandrac and Kelly Kole as they share their insights on how working with a professional designer can save money, help you avoid costly mistakes and how you can take advantage of a professionals buying power. Plus they’ll share their Top 6 Reasons why you should hire an interior designer.

What professional help do you pay for already that you may or may not be able to do yourself?
a. Financial Planning/CPA/Taxes
b. Landscaping
c. Painting
d. Plumbing/Electrical
e. Car Maintenance and Repairs
f. Physical Trainers
g. Kelly’s HAIR☺

Dispelling Myths
a. Designers are snobby
b. Designers will rip you off
c. If you tell a designer what your budget is, they will either ignore it and go over your requested amount or use every penny of it.

Our Top 6 Reasons why you should hire an interior designer and how we can relate
1. Save Money
-- Avoid costly mistakes
-- Take advantage of our buying power

2. Professional, Honest Advice
   -- We are looking at your home with fresh eyes
   -- We will be straight up honest with our assessment

-- We will will help you focus – so many of our clients are all over the place with a laundry list way bigger than their budget

3. We help clients figure out what they need/want by probing and asking questions about things they never thought about.
   -- Example: Reworking a client’s  original plan - Altered the plan from the architect and builder to make a significant difference to the way the family functioned and their lifestyle.
   -- Saving Our Clients Time and Effort
   -- Our clients are professional working folk – no time to make their homes comfortable and beautiful.
   -- We do all the dirty work – and there is a lot of it.
   -- Our resource list is much more in depth and varied than any client would have access to.
   
   
4. Contacts
   -- Vetting, professional reliable contractors in every category
   -- Artisans for custom creations - Our carpenter who added circular trim to flat doors for a show house we did - check out the blog post on this.  Other projects include a custom 116” long sofa table with a beautiful fretwork design and then lacquered in a gloss navy blue as well as a custom designed nightstand with beautiful woodwork to house a CPAP machine and all the accessories that go with it.  There are awful options in the marketplace that would never work with a high end design with a beautiful headboard and linens.
   -- Specialty manufacturers for custom furnishings, art, rugs, lighting etc.
   
   
5. A “WOW” Personal Design
   -- We aren’t afraid to try new things and think outside of the box – so we take this burden off of our clients.  - COLOR
   -- We have the skills to work with textures, colors, patterns – to mix antiques with modern, to work in a room spatially that our clients aren’t trained to do.
   -- We create renderings to give our clients a beautiful, realistic visual of their new spaces.
   
   
6. Return on Your Investment & Resale
   -- Hi-Lo Design and encouraging investing in those things that need to last.
   -- Not designing for the short term but the long term (our personal style).
   -- Helping our clients de-clutter and multi function for a simpler, more beautiful way of life that shows better in real estate