Process



Working With Us

Our straightforward design process allows us to focus on your unique design project.


Here's The Rundown:

  • Discovery Call:
    A quick 30-minute video call to get to know each other and chat about the project.
  • Consultation:
    A more in-depth in-person meeting, to have a deeper conversation, to collect detailed measurements, and to gather reference photos.  All collected data will be used to generate a “rough-draft” of the design plan, including scope of work, photorealistic 3D renderings, and pricing that will later be presented.
  • Presentation:
    A sit down in-person meeting to review early design concepts and materials, pricing, and scope of work with the purpose of deciding whether we will work together.
  • Design and Proposals Meeting:
    Touching base to further review design concepts and materials.
  • Trade Day:
    Scheduled on-site trade day to review your spaces with our trade partners and third parties.
  • Design and Proposals Meeting:
    Meet to further develop your design, refine your selections, create quotes for custom items, produce additional drawings and/or revise existing drawings, select additional materials, and schedule tradespeople and craftsmen.
  • Refinement:
    Completed drawings and item lists are ready to be presented for approval and final edits.
  • Project Management:
    The Design Librarian team manages all communications and meetings with tradespeople and third party vendors. Detailed construction documents are prepared as roadmaps for trades.  We obtain all of the product -- including ordering, tracking, quality assurance, warehousing, and white-glove delivery.
  • Installation:
    All items are white-glove delivered and all packaging removed.  We hang your artwork, mount your window treatments, make your beds, and add professional styling finishing touches.
  • Punchlist:
    We resolve any issues that may have occurred before we consider the job complete and final payment is requested.

We worked with Emily on renovating our whole house, including completely redone bathrooms and kitchen, built-in bookshelves, custom cabinetry and storage, kid's, master, and guest bedrooms, lighting, and furniture and art selection. She helped us make perfect use of the modestly-sized spaces, and months later we still walk around and comment on how happy everything makes us. We always felt like she was listening to what we really wanted and everything about the place just feels so perfect for us. We also felt like we were in very safe hands, and she would tell us honestly if any of our ideas were just not going to work how we imagined. She nudged us just enough out of our comfort zone to make some choices that weren't obvious too us at first, but worked out great. I'd recommend Design Librarian highly for any scale of project you are considering.
-Roban K.

This is how the sausage gets made.
-Emily S.

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