{"id":654,"date":"2010-06-23T08:59:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T12:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hickoryfurniture.blogs.eprevue.net\/?p=654"},"modified":"2010-06-23T08:59:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T12:59:15","slug":"designing-women-how-to-work-with-an-interior-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/designing-women-how-to-work-with-an-interior-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing Women: How to work with an Interior Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-meta\">Last Updated Wednesday, June 23, 2010<\/div> <p>Decorating a home can be a time-consuming task, especially if you are trying to do it yourself during one visit to our North Carolina furniture outlets and showrooms.\u00a0 Many people will block off one or two days to try to find all the perfect pieces at once for their home, but it is important to consider the assistance of an interior designer while you are here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-657 size-full\" title=\"CR Laine Living Room\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2010\/06\/CR-Laine-Living-Room.bmp\" alt=\"Interior Design at Hickory Furniture Mart\" width=\"324\" height=\"432\" \/>The designers at <a href=\"\/design-services\/\">Designing Women, Inc.<\/a> offer professional design services to help you create a space that reflects your specific taste and personality.\u00a0\u00a0A designer will ask questions about your likes, dislikes, how the space will be used, what your priorities are at this point in your life, kids, pets, and entertaining styles among other things.\u00a0 You need to be prepared to let the designer know how you truly live your life.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, there are a few things you should bring with you to be prepared for the meeting.\u00a0 A set of house plans that show the overall layout and scale is key, as are pictures of the space.\u00a0 The interior designer will need the dimensions of the space you are looking to decorate to help make the proper choices in furniture size and layout.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the interview stage of the meeting, your designer will try to find out what styles you like, and the colors that attract you.\u00a0 Most people can tell you what they don\u2019t like, so it is recommended to take some time prior to your trip to Hickory Furniture Mart to pull pictures from magazines or tag pages in books of the things that speak to you.\u00a0 This will help you and the interior designer formulate a game plan.<\/p>\n<p>Stop in and visit our North Carolina furniture showrooms for their Summer Sales and to take advantage of our Gas Card Promotion through July 17th.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find great deals on those necessary pieces that will make your house a home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Updated Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Decorating a home can be a time-consuming task, especially if you are trying to do it yourself during one visit to our North Carolina furniture outlets and showrooms.\u00a0 Many people will block off one or two days to try to find all the perfect pieces at once for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,25],"tags":[12],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}