What do you need to know before start
Laws
This is where would-be designers may opt to avoid the education and become decorators, thereby avoiding some of the doldrum of learning building codes and local laws.
Some of the details can certainly be boring, but they are required knowledge for interior designers. Learning about plumbing codes, electricity and load-bearing walls may not excite you, but it is required. Staying abreast of such things gives interior designers an advantage and marketability that decorators simply do not have.
Explore the legal issues in your country in the interior design field and international design codes.
Room Planner Reports
Room Planner has a variety of options to export project documentation:
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Floor Plans
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Statistics
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Shopping list
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PDF report
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Plans of walls and ceiling
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Export of photos and panoramas
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3ds Max project
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Project link for co-editing and renovation supervision
Floor Plans
Statistics
Shopping List
PDF report
Click here to open an example
2D Wall Plan
Click Wall in 3D mode - Open 2D
Ceiling 2D Plan
Click Ceiling in 3D mode - Open 2D Plan
Photos and 360 Panoramas
Creating a renovation checklist and supervising
The last stage before starting a renovation. Creating a checklist with dates of completion for every department to understand their duties and responsibilities. By having a checklist, parties can properly prepare works in order to bring it all together within the scheduled timeline. Create spreadsheets with all the information about renovation. If you are working offline you can provide design supervision or just provide the result to the client.
Checklist incudes:
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Space name and description
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Size
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Proxemics
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Equipment/Furnishing
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Thermal
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Acoustics
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Lighting
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Materials and colors
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Environmental Qualities
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Future Factors
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Responsible parties
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Timing
Here is an example of renovation checklist from Space planning basics by Mark Karlen.
