This is a long one already, so let's get into it. I have not done commercial and have no experience with commercial design agreements. This is a residential interior design agreement. Your business is special and unique, don't try to protect yourself with someone else's contract. Hire a lawyer, don't just use a contract you find off the internet. You should have a professional look over your interior design agreement. This article, 2.0, is for designers to help clarify their interior design agreement. The first was geared more toward helping clients navigate a design agreement.
This article also has a bit of a different perspective than the first. Each project will be a new lesson and you want to record those lessons in your design agreement. You should be continually updating and revising your interior design agreement. Not just what I have learned in my own experiences, but in my fellow designer's experiences as well.
Today, I am refreshing and revitalizing that post because my interior design agreement has been updated with all that I have learned over the past few years. It became one of my most successful posts. What should be inside of an interior design contract?Ī couple of years ago, I wrote The Anatomy of an Interior Design Agreement.
