If these questions become overwhelming, it might be a good time to consider working with an interior designer. Interior designers offer a wealth of expertise and resources in order to meet your decorating desires and can often save you from costly mistakes. For example, sometimes people will buy the wrong scale for the room. A couch may look the right size in the showroom, but when it gets delivered and put in the living room, it looks too big. That can be an expensive mistake. If the couch has been custom-covered, you may not be able to return it. The other expensive mistake people will sometimes make is adding a little something to one room and then a little something to another room, but never giving any one room all the attention and work it needs.
Working with an interior designer has many benefits. Designers have access to items that can't be bought in a store, including more fabrics and wall coverings than a person might find in any one shop. Sometimes the items someone is looking for can only be bought through a designer. In fact, even do-it-yourselfers will often need to order certain products from an interior designer, she says. Most importantly, good designers have developed a sense of what works and what doesn't. It's not that people can't learn how tall a table lamp or a bed-side table should be, or what kind of lighting works best in any given space but most may not want to take the considerable time required to learn. Skilled interior designers offers expertise in arranging rooms; they know how to use color, texture, and patterns to bring interest to a room.
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