To ask your experience of home / interior designers and if it really is worth the money?!

[Claliscool]

Is it? Are they? Ive been having a great time working with mine her ideas are amazing... I think it will come out at 2k for the kitchen and living room. Is that about that others have paid and have you been happy with it?
Obviously I know this is a massively first world dilemma!!

I sent karen an email last night to see if she's been affected by the covid shutdown. She responded straight away (which is another thing I like about her) she's not stopped working the whole of lockdown and is booking end of June start of July currently!

Karen is a busy lady!!

Yes we had advice when redesigning our kitchen. He completely changed the original plan and it’s much better.

And out of interest @LovingLola, how much did you spend??

£700.

OK thank you!

Her site says "To design a kitchen, with your input and ideas too, would usually come into the £450 to £675 bracket, (about the cost of a good dishwasher) That’s for a personally tailored design, keeping you in the loop at each stage. (much larger rooms or a collection of rooms ie kitchen, utility and boot room etc may work out more, if covering more area)"

Well I ended up putting mine on pause as when she showed me the mood board she had come up with it was in a pallette which would have required the repurchasing of literally everything I own and the total denial of the existence of children and their stuff! I didn't understand it all - the 'pallette' she had chosen was full of colours I actively dislike. What is that about?! I've taken a few ideas and I'll just incorporate them into what I've already got but I'm a bit disappointed tbh.