Molins Design Decoration Projects: Phases and duration
Decoration project VS Interior design project
Many of the clients who come to Molins Design studio have trouble discerning what is a decoration project from an interior design project. Although closely related, these proposals are totally different.
To know what kind of project you need to carry out in your home, commercial space or office you need to answer the following question: Do the spaces you currently have fit your needs?
If the answer is yes, the only thing you need is help and advice on decoration for the home, workplace or business. That is to say, to give an answer to how to furnish and where to place different complements or decoration elements in your space. However, if your rest or work area is not functional and, in addition to changing the lighting or furniture in your rooms, you also need to change some architectural piece of space, you are undoubtedly facing an interior design project.
How to make a decoration project?
Most of the decoration projects we undertake, whether in the domestic or commercial environment, have some key characteristics.
First of all, we may be faced with a blank canvas scenario or decorative intervention. In this case, we are talking about proposals in which everything is to be done. Normally we find the area or room without any furniture, free of decorative elements. They are empty spaces that need to be decorated or covered according to the client’s concerns and tastes.
Secondly, we find the projects of reforms and interior decoration in which there is already some decorative element. Proposals in which you ask for our help as interior decorators to integrate different elements (lighting, furniture of all kinds, textiles, etc.) in the most practical, functional and adapted to your style.
How long does it take to do a decoration project?
The time of a decoration project for homes, commercial spaces or offices depends on the square meters to be worked. It is clear that it will not be the same to decorate a small room in a home, such as a living room or dining room, than to work on a complete decoration project for a 500 square meters office.
Most of the decorative interventions that we do at Molins Design studio are agile and easy to carry out.
If we focus, for example, on the decoration of a living-dining room, we can say that it will take about 3 or 4 weeks. Although, the exact weeks of work will vary depending on the materials chosen.
We always try to disturb the client as little as possible. Therefore, we organize from beginning to end the decoration project, as well as the logistics and the order of all the materials and decorative elements that will be needed.
Phases of decoration projects Molins Design
The phases that we follow from Molins Design studio regarding interior decoration are the following:
1. Contact
First of all, we need to know what your intentions are, what you want us to address and in which spaces you want us to intervene. To do this, it is vital that you tell us your concerns and desires, so that we can capture what you want in your home or business premises.
In this sense, it will be very useful for us if you can share with us some distribution plans of the space, together with some photographs of the current state it is in.
2. Economic estimation
After the collection of information in the first phase, we can move on to phase two, which corresponds to the economic assessment of the project. Here we are going to present you with two documents.
On the one hand, you will have the fees for the decoration project. That is to say, all the stages that we will have to deal with to define the details of the project. On the other hand, we present you another document with the estimated economic valuation of the execution of the project.
That is, we will value each and every one of the elements that we believe that the space will require, both in terms of furniture and accessories. In this way, you will have within your reach a price range, more or less delimited, of all the necessary elements to make your decorative project a reality. This information will undoubtedly be useful to move forward and start with the next stage.
3. Project start-up
We have now reached phase three. First of all, we will go to your space to soak up the sensations it offers, as well as to get to know the environment and context of the place. Once there, our team takes advantage of the moment to take measurements, information that will be essential for the correct distribution of the furniture on the floor plan.
Remember that nowadays we have two ways to take measurements. One of them is the traditional one, with the help of a meter and making a sketch, in case we do not already have a plan of the space. The second, and if the project has a certain complexity or a considerable size, is to resort to measuring with a point cloud scanner. It is a tool that is very useful because it gives us a photograph to the millimeter of what is the interior space.
We then go on to interview you in the studio to get a picture of what your needs and concerns are. In addition to knowing how you intend to inhabit the space. As a result of this contact, a script is generated, which will be of great help to the team to compile all the information of the decorative project.
At this point, it is also essential for us to have a selection of reference images to capture your aesthetic ideology. For this, tools such as Pinterest, Behance or simply a PowerPoint with a selection of images that you find captivating or inspiring are very useful. From there, we can filter your style and what your aesthetic references are.
In a decorative proposal like the one we are dealing with, it may happen that we come with a series of objects from other places that we should take into consideration. We are talking about works of art, sofas or other pieces that are special, with a unique character and that you want to give to this decorative project. Therefore, these measurements and photographs will be necessary to undertake the creative process and the design process.
4. Project development
Once all this information has been compiled, we would enter phase four. Here we deal with the details of the decorative proposal. First of all, we will approach a proposal for the floor plan distribution with furniture and other complements. Once the floor plan layout has been agreed upon, we will go on to detail the elevations. The elevations are a detailed description of what is going to be happening in each of the spaces that we are going to intervene. That is to say, how the eventual furniture that we design to measure will look like, how the decorative lighting will interfere with the complementary furniture, etc.
Together with these elevations, we will also address a proposal for possible modification of the facilities, which sometimes we must modify to accommodate these new spaces that we are proposing. And finally, we end this phase four with the main course: the proposal of materials. That is, all the fabrics, carpets, furniture, and lighting elements, as well as the range of textures, materials and elements that will be part of this decorative proposal.
In this sense, we would like to tell you that, prior to the choice, we are going to propose everything in our studio. We will not go from one showroom to another, but our team will show you all the information and samples of the materials and all the brands, both national and international, in order to make this combination to measure.
5. Space rendering
At this point, we perform what is called 3D interior decoration. A simulation or photomontages, which help us to visualize a first visual proposal of the already decorated space.
6. Economic valuation
Once all the previous stages have been addressed, we will move on to the sixth and last phase, which consists of the economic valuation of the items. That is to say, we will economically value all the elements that we have proposed in the project phase, in order to have an economic summary of what the execution will represent.
We briefly explain how we approach a new decoration project and its six phases:
Contact
Economic estimation
Start of the project
Project development
Space rendering
Economic valuation
How do we approach a decoration project?
Do you need to decorate with taste and simplicity your workspace or the favorite rooms of your home? Contact us, tell us your tastes and we will work to achieve a functional, comfortable and beautiful space.
