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FULL ROOM DESIGN
Lisa’s Specialty: A designer-caliber space, maintaining a cohesive, elevated look - without the high-end designer costs, markups, and long-lead times of luxury custom full-service turnkey interior design.
When custom isn’t required, our clients can be enjoying their new room in a matter of weeks, if they desire, compared to year-long installations, since Lisa works diligently to source mostly in-stock, readily available pieces with this service. Every detail for your new room—from top to bottom (chandelier to area rug)—is methodically chosen by Lisa, tailored for your individual space, style, needs, and budget - whether your personal preference is for modest, mid-range, or high-end furnishings and decor.
For kitchen and bathroom remodel projects, we’ll create the new vision for your room, selecting finishes, fixtures & decor, so you know exactly where you are headed, all before the contractor starts.
You’ll receive everything you need to easily bring your new designer curated room to life, at your own pace, on your own timeline—without the pressure or investment of a full-service install. And although we have relationships with the best contractors and happy to make the introduction, our clients have the freedom to work with their own.
WHAT’S INCLUDED IN A FULL ROOM DESIGN?
New design concept development based on your wishes
2D Layout Plan included for many room types: a professionally crafted floor plan to maximize space and flow with properly scaled furnishings and decor for the space
Lighting plans (for lamps, decorative ceiling fixtures + sconces: proper scale, clearances, & placement)
Expert curation of furniture, rugs, artwork, flooring and décor from mostly in-stock pieces (custom when needed)
Custom room design built around your preferred price tier, without compromising on style
Ready-made or custom window treatments
Masterful mix of colors, patterns, textures, styles, and finishes
Professional recommendations, styling tips, and installation guidance
Curated Design Procurement Packet includes: Style Board + 2D Layout for many room types + Procurement and Installation Guide with clickable links for easy ordering + Local Contacts (when needed, to help with paint, tile, counter tops, wallpaper installation, custom window treatment fabrication and installation, etc.)
All work done entirely by Lisa, bringing her down-to-earth approach, trained eye, and 23 years as one of Boston North Shore’s most trusted local experts into your home
FULL ROOM DESIGN IS PERFECT FOR…
Clients who want the luxury, exclusivity, and convenience of working with a professional decorator, but without the markup of full-service interior design
New homeowners who need to furnish and design their home but don’t want to wait six months, twelve months, or longer
Anyone who is tired of their existing space, wants to update it, but needs a professional plan, so it comes out right
Clients who are building a new home, addition, or remodeling and would benefit from knowing exact colors, finishes, flooring, furnishings, lighting, textiles, and decor to be ordered, to have a plan in place - ahead of their contractor or builder needeing decisions/answers - and before move in day
HOW MUCH DOES FULL ROOM INTERIOR DESIGN COST?
The short answer: It will be a flat fee, but we need to understand your project and the variables first.
The long answer: Grab a coffee or tea, sit by the fireplace, curl up with your cat or dog in your lap, and read below:
Our clients appreciate our respectful, flat investment rate, up front transparent cost so they never worry about surprise hourly invoices from us, ever. They pay one time for Lisa’s design work and can then sit back and relax, knowing something beautiful and right for them is being created with a lot of love, care, expertise, and creative vision. Our track record speaks for itself, check out Lisa Jensen Interior Design’s client testimonials page. In fact, it was clients green lighting every single project Lisa presented year after year, that led her to create her simplified, flat rate interior design services. After many years on the job figuring out what worked best for her clients, Lisa created her streamlined unique process that she continues offering today.
That said, for Full Room Designs, there are too many variables involved between project needs, client requests, and many other factors, to give just one cost for a Full Room Design to everyone, but we will give you some ideas below to make sure we’re in the same ballapark. If after reading below we don’t sound too low, or too high, for you, then we’re probably going to be a good fit! The next step would be to submit our Contact Form to start the conversation. If we’re not the right fit, no worries and good luck with your project.
The first thing to note about our interior design pricing is that we’re not doing lower budget online e-designs here. We’re not doing cookie-cutter or basic room designs. We’re not a new, lesser-experienced designer. And we’re not churning out designs for the same type of room, over and over. There is nothing formulaic about our work. If you look at our portfolio, you will see every type of residential space from kitchens, bathrooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and home offices. You’ll also see styles ranging from Modern, Transitional, Traditional, Coastal, Farmhouse, Bohemian, Eclectic, Edgy, and more. There is also Lisa’s 23 years of skill development with hundreds of completed room designs over the past couple decades with hundreds of satisfied clients - many repeatedly hiring Lisa for over 15 years. A lot of time and effort goes into Lisa’s meticulous work, so we can tell you our Full Room Design in your home won’t be $999.
Unlike high-end, luxury-only design firms, we’re skilled at working in varying budget levels that range from modest, to mid-range, to luxury, and we don’t require our clients invest 6 figures to furnish just one room, or invest in all custom pieces. You will have the freedom to control your own furniture and decor budget. Lisa is respectful of her client’s money and is a master at knowing where to indulge, where to scale back, and choosing items that look like they are more than they are. Oftentimes, lower budgets make developing the Full Room Design more challenging, so a lower furnishings and decor budget does not mean a lower cost for the design service.
To give you a general idea of the investment for your personalized custom room design, separate from your furnishings and decor budget, a Full Room Design for a smaller, less complicated space, like a light foyer in a Colonial, or a very small, basic half bathroom, or changing some key pieces in a living room or bathroom (a partial room design) may be an investment of ballpark $1795-$2795.
A more typical Full Room Design for an average family or living room, dining room, bedroom, home office, study, kitchen, or bathroom could be in the ballpark of $3495 - $5495. That is for a Full Room Design planned out, even if we’re incorporating some of your existing pieces. Our clients receive final selections for colors, finishes, hardware, textiles, all large furniture pieces, small accent furnishings, rugs, lamps, chandeliers, artwork, art lights, window treatments and hardware, plants/planters, decorative items, accent pillows, throw blankets, baskets, etc., a 2D Layout for most spaces, a visual Style Board, and a comprehensive Procurement and Installation Guide with links to swiftly + easily purchase their new items and know exactly where to place them in the room. This is our way to give you a stress-free, completely personalized, custom new room - without the high-end full service install price tag. We do offer an optional higher level service as well, utilizing a white-glove receiving and delivery company for a single delivery and installation.
I’m sure that is a big range for some folks, but it truly depends on the specifics of your project, the condition of the space, the complexity of the room, the level of work I’ll need to do to develop a fitting design, and of course the client’s individual requests can really be a factor, so that cost could increase. For example, a living room may have a few built-in bookcases that require the planning and sourcing of 36 unique accessories - that’s a lot of work! We are not going to a big box or home store and picking 36 accessories off their shelves in a couple hours - that is not the level of uniqueness, thoughtfulness, and soul we bring to each of our projects. A room that needs an additional 36 accessories will call for a lot of careful planning (drafting elevations of the built-ins so we can plan precise size/scale/shape and placement of each of the 36 pieces). It will then call for a lot of curating time (absolute best case scenario is finding a great item and then specifying it in the procurement packet with link, best case ever would be 20 minutes, but realistically more like double that. Imagining best case 20 minutes per item x 36 items = 12 hours, just for bookcase accessories) and this will have an impact on the flat rate, requiring quite a bit more work than a straightforward space would. Or, a client may have a challenging room to lay out, or want me to locate a super unusual or difficult to source piece, or customize window treatments or furniture, so there are many variables that will go into our flat Full Room Design fee.
Every room design project starts with a paid intake consultation that happens at the job site, in order to interview you in depth, to view the space or plans, to photograph and measure the room, architectural elements, and any pieces you plan to keep, to review costs and budget options, and to learn everything we can about your goals, dreams, and more, so that in the end your new space will reflect your wishes (not ours). Our in-depth consultations and getting to know our clients is the reason our projects are successful and have been continuously green-lighted nearly 100% for 23 years. We know all the right questions to ask to get a thorough understanding of you. And we’re a master at bridging differing tastes between partners and landing somewhere in the middle.
I hope this helps give you a ballpark idea about a typical investment in our Full Room Design service. We’re obviously far below high-end, luxury full-service interior design, where an example for designer fees in Massachusetts for a kitchen will be 25-30% of the overall project (so designer fees would run about $37,000 - $45,000 for a $150,000 kitchen). Instead, Lisa Jensen Interior Design can create the vision (out of thin air), the new “look” for your kitchen, for a fraction of those fees. Sure, you’ll have to be involved with the kitchen cabinet vendor (we know some great ones) and contractor, but you will get a custom, beautiful well-designed space, with the hard decisions made for you ahead of the project, such as flooring, counter top for island, counter top for perimeter, edging detail and finish, knobs, pulls or both and on which cabinets or drawers, cabinet styles and finishes, island lighting, back splash tile, installation pattern, grout color, wall paint color, sink, faucet, stools, runner, counter top accents, artwork, and more, for roughly $4,500-$6,500 and save $32,000 to $40,000 to put toward your cabinets, counter tops, light fixtures, stools, window treatments, and more - and still have a magazine worthy new kitchen when it’s finished!
The investment in our service is far below high-end, luxury design firms, or celebrity designers and influencers like Amber Lewis of Amber Interiors who does lovely work and charges $1,250 for a 25-minute virtual consultation, or Leanne Ford who charges $2,000 for 55-minute virtual consultation, or Bobby Berk who also charges $2,000 for a 55-minute virtual consultation, for example. And we’re also not offering budget decorating service either.
There’s a place for all interior decorators and designers of all levels, but the important thing is that if we sound right for you, then great, we look forward to helping transform your home soon. Our limited spots fill up fast, so we recommend contacting us soon to reserve your spot!
Are You Ready? Let’s Create Your Beautiful Space Next!
Book your virtual consultation today to get started if you live outside the Northeastern Massachusetts area, or contact us to be added to our Full Room Design waiting list if you’re local.
“Lisa, thank you so very much for the work you have done for us. To say we were blown away by the selections and details would be an understatement. My husband already has said we will need Lisa to help us fine tune the other rooms. Thank you again.”
Newburyport, MA
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