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Each interior design project feels discouraging at the beginning. If you star on an empty floor plan (or Pinterest board), feel lost at sea. If you receive the advice of a professional designer, you can clarify your vision and implement it into reality. However, if you do not have the budget to take a professional or prefer to save your money for the parts yourself, you should consider a hack.

Several luxurious home retailers, including House beautiful Favorites such as articles and Lulu and Georgia offer free design services. Your internal professional designers are clever in taking your home wishes and finding the perfect pieces. Not to mention that you often help with layout and size, everyone is tailored to them. Yes, these free design services are often offered to promote the purchase of your products, but it is a great place to start when you have a certain aesthetics in mind.

As a design-obsessed writer, we wanted to see how the process was for ourselves. Associate Shopping editor Janae McKenzie and House beautiful A participant Margaux Lushing set four Hb-Favorite brands for the test. We tried out your free design services and have been on speed, communication, budget liability and how well we were suitable for our creative vision. In the following you will find our results which services were best.

Additional copy and research by Margaux Lushing.

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The design services of the article were first on the Lushing list to try it. The brand offers a complete design project service and decided to use its modern taste for a bar area outdoors. It began with an e -mail in which style settings, images and measurements were requested. It was lavishly connected to a designer who planned a 30-minute zoo call, in front of which she sent some Moodboards to get a point of discussion.

After the zoom, a proposed design plan was lush in the form of a deck. The recommendations were super thorough, including an inspiration slide, a recommended product slide and product alternatives. At the very end, there was a citate with prices for recommended articles and a next step for purchasing.

“The cover delivered was most thorough in terms of the design recommendations for the services I tried,” says Lushing. “While the pillows that I bought to combine with bar stools, ultimately did not fit the stools, everything I ordered worked so well for the room and achieved exactly that I was looking for.”

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For the Lushing living room, her main challenge was to nail a versatile, cat -friendly sofa. With the focus of Maiden Home on investment pieces, it was the perfect starting point. The brand process started with a request for pictures and a floor plan and provided an proposed design plan by e -mail in about a week. The design plan includes two instructions with floor plans – on the scale – with material recommendations, some additional furniture recommendations for space and pricing.

Lushing's favorite matter about Maiden Home's Services? The quality of communication. When she tried to determine the best style and the best size for the room, the design team was incredibly patient.

“There is no limitation for the amount of back and forth that you can have via email or phone with your deputies, which was very helpful because I sank and whipped through measurements to ensure that it fits exactly as I wanted,” says Lushing. “Ultimately, I bought a sofa and it fit exactly as I hoped. The only disadvantage of using Maiden Home services is that your selection of furniture is so curated and concentrated that it can feel limited for everyone who wants to go beyond the core collection.”

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Lulu and Georgia

When McKenzie set off to finally lift her landlord, she wanted it to be two things: airy and relaxed. The bathroom was windowless and completely gray, from color to the tiles. Because she loves Lulu and Georgia's ability to make a room like a soft place to the country, she spent her free design service. After filling out an incredibly thorough design form, she had a five -minute chat on the phone with a designer of Lulu and Georgia. The conversation has completely clarified her wish for a spa-like space and achieved quite a bit in a short time.

“The designer I worked with was incredibly thorough,” says McKenzie. “She took my wish for tenant-friendly wallpaper, organization and storage and even according to a towel texture. It also kept it below $ 1,000, although the lowest budget range is $ 1,000 to $ 2,500, which I appreciated very much.”

After the call, the designer worked on a Mood board and communicated with text. McKenzie estimated the flexibility she had, very, because there were many back and forth fine votes to create a look that felt seamless. “My main concern was the selection of different parts that would actually go together,” says McKenzie. “When I suggested that I wanted another wallpaper pattern or a kind of cork bare, she quickly found alternatives that fit the room for the warm view. The entire process only lasted 24 hours and I felt cared for all the time.”

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Serena & Lily

Lushing tried the free and virtual design service from Serena & Lily to revive a covered outdoor entrance. The service began with a digital form that demands pictures and notes on the style. It was then planned for a 30-minute zoom meeting with a designer in her local design business. After some initial planning challenges, which included a last-minute cancellation and a rescheduling plan, she showed the designer practical in her room.

“Within a week, she informed a beautiful mood board that contained articles that could give me the perfect Coastal-Mit-A-Touch-of-McM look that I wanted,” says Lushing. There was a follow-up zoom chat to optimize the plan, which was also promoted due to a planning problem. But at some point she was able to combine furniture, decor and unique location in a slightly opaque floor plan.

“With a little patience, the styling recommendations provided by Serena & Lily's designers were very helpful to see the kind of seats, memory and styling options that could completely increase an area that felt much too confusing for this amateur in order to fight them themselves,” says Lushing.

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