Interior Design New York

Interior Design New York

Good design is what it’s all about. Only if a project is designed and planned successfully it can be successfully executed. Good design consists of the following components: Layout / space planning – What will go where? (Walls, cabinets, fixtures, etc…) Material (products, finishes) selection and specification Budget planning.

All Contractors NYC can quickly handle all three for you. Most designers will be able to handle #1 well, #2 not that well (Because they don’t have a showroom and need to rely on other showrooms. Many designers use All Contractors NYC  as their go to showroom. Don’t get us wrong, we love to work with designers so if you already have a designer please bring her/ him along and introduce us, we’ll explain why below). The 3rd component (budget planning) is usually the most challenging for designers, because not only are they not a showroom, but they are also not a contractor. This makes calculating how much your project will cost and developing a realistic budget with you impossible causing the designer to price everything with showrooms and contractors. In most cases, it may mean that you would only know how much the project will truly cost after it is already designed. Establishing a budget is important, but even if you already know exactly how much you’re planning to spend and you told that to your designer, there’s no telling if completing your project within range from the initial design stages.

While we’re working on the above 3 components (layout, specification, budget planning) we usually like to simultaneously handle the permitting and approval process.

Obtain local building department permits (plumbing, electrical, general construction and any other type of architectural/ expediting matters such as special applications and variances)

If you’re living in a condo or coop requiring board and/ or management company approval we’ll handle all of that on your behalf simultaneously with dealing with DOB permits and applications.

So, as you can see we have a design system that can handle the entire design process using a full service system allowing the design and specification to move along very fast. For sure faster than doing it using only a design firm. No designer can provide all of the above and fast. That’s because designers will have to rely on other suppliers, showrooms and contractors for executing their design.