Occasionally we'll come across a customer with a real dilemma: While they know they need to upgrade their home, they haven't yet decided whether they are making the changes with a view to staying, or with the aim of selling, and finding a new home.
This poses a certain challenge for our designers, because the two goals demand two pretty different plans of attack...
When you design to stay, you are “the client”. This means that we work with you to discover your needs and requirements, likes and dislikes. But when you design to sell, your home becomes “the client”, and our job is to discover it's strong and weak points, it's immediate surroundings, and the expectations of the people who will most likely be it's next owners: the buyer. But if our customer is wanting their renovation that covers both eventualities, we have to find a solution for them: a design solution, coupled with a design-to-sell solution.
An easy task? Yes...and no! Yes, because we can always find ways to marry the two goals...and No, because our customer has to accept to be a little more flexible in their choices, but if that flexibility is not present, it makes it much harder for us to achieve the best result for both solutions. So, co-operation is “the name of the game” when we need to make one home fit two goals.
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| Making a "sell or stay" decision about your home can feel like being in a maze! Talking to our designers can help you define your real goals, then help you reach them. |
But often, we find that our customer is helped by going through the research procedure with us, and by the end of the process has taken the decision whether the home will be for sale in the near future, or not. This too is part of our job: to help you reach decisions by accompanying you through a simple process, step-by-step.
Sometimes, that's the help you need, that allows you to see things more clearly.
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