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How to Map the Interior Design Floor Plan with Products

2024-05-30

Creating a detailed and accurate floor plan is a crucial step in any interior design project🏠 Whether you are a professional interior designer, architect, contractor, or project manager, having the right tools and techniques can make a significant difference in the success of your project and satisfy your client. In this article, we will explore how important to map specific products with the right information for clients and projects. There are multiple floor plan creating tools like Autodesk AutoCAD Architecture, SketchUp, Planner5D, Fusion, or RooomSketcher etc. But for the actual project, it’s also very important to map the actual product information correctly in order to budget the project, source the products, install the products, and maintain the interior after handover.

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How to make Interior Design Product Specification

2024-05-03

What is Product Specification? If you are an interior designer or architect, I believe you daily make Product Specification. Product Specification is to show the product information to be used in your interior design project.It shows what product / furniture / hardware / system / finish / fabric&leather should be used for in your project. The owner, sourcing agent, contractor, or vendor/supplier will source or produce the product based on this Product Specification. It is important to show full information with images for everyone to clearly understand what should be used.However, it is often difficult to do it because of the time restriction and multiple revisions over project. What contents should it have? Typically, the document to contain: Project Name

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INTEBEE SPEC MAKER is now for free for Single Device Users

2023-02-13

We are pleased to announce that INTEBEE SPEC MAKER is now for free to use without any limitations for Single Device users.Anyone use SPEC MAKER with one device only does not have to pay license fee and they can use INTEBE SPEC MAKER without any time limitations or functional limitations. You can upload the application to the host too.Since SPEC MAKER does not limit Filemaker GO (iOS device) or Web browser connection, you or your team can check/edit the specifications outside of your office by using those methods, while only one registered device can export PDF files. This is a great opportunity for anyone wants to try interior design specifications management application with as low cost as possible. We are

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FileMaker – Invoice & Payment Management Template (free)

2022-12-30

Cash Flow Management Cash Flow management is one of the headache for your business. You might try many online tools, but have you ever thought you want to customize them by your own? If so, ClarisFileMaker can be a solution for you! Free to Use template This payment / invoice management system is similar to what we internally use. We decided to provide this template for free with complete access right, means you can edit it in the way you like. You can customize it to have your own designs or add any data type or functions. Function of Invoice / Payment Tool : Invoice registration Payment In / Out registration Payment per Invoice and Due management Cash Balance Management

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Introduction of AI Drawings for Interior Design and Architecture

2022-12-18

AI Drawings As you have heard, AI drawing is a trend now, and there are many applications that can generate the images for free. Stable Diffusion is one of the most famous Deep Learning models which brought everyone’s attention.And many of the recent applications are using this model or branch of this model. One of the issue of generating drawing is the process requires high-spec PC (GPU) However, as an interior designer or architect, you may have considerably high-spec PC. I will show you examples of AI drawings for Interior Designers & Architects using Mac OS. If you are using Windows, I highly recommend to use AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion Web UI As of now, I think this application has the

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How does Claris FileMaker work for Interior Design Studios & Architects

2022-12-17

Today, we will write about how Claris Filemaker can be a useful tool for Interior Designers, Architects, Procurement Companies, and Hospitality management company. What is Claris FileMaker? Claris FileMaker is a “no-code” business application builder. It’s similar to Microsoft Access. You can build a business application for your studio / company easily without writing many codes. There are a lot of business applications works in Web Browser like Edge, Safari, or Google Chrome, like Salesforce, Quickbooks, Zoho, Monday.com, ZenDesk. Or AirTable might be similar too. However, after trying these applications, have you ever thought that you wanted to make your own application? These applications are all great, but they might not be able to 100% fulfill your demand. Claris FileMaker

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5 tools (software) to make Interior Design Product Specifications / Spec Sheets

2022-12-16

Have you ever considered what tool, application, software you should use to make Interior Design Product Specifications? Here is some tips… 1. INTEBEE We are proud to introduce INTEBEE as the best Product Specification tool considering it’s flexibility to export PDF in several different ways with related specs or even with related PDF document to make entire book. And not like other service, you can own your data in your sever. This is the great advantage to protect your data for safety. It is not easy to set-up in the beginning since it’s based on Filemaker software, but it will provide the powerful functions after setup with user friendly UI. Name Function Platform Price Website INTEBEE – Unlimited Projects– Unlimited

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About Interior Design Fee

2020-12-06

Here is a question always been asked.

“How much is the average interior design fee?”

Design fee is always varied depending on the requirement, and every design company has different standard or formula.

Below is the main factors that differentiate the design fee:

Site Condition

  • How large the space is (m2 / sqf)
  • New Built or Existing Building or Renovation
  • Any 3rd party design management is involved or not

Design Requirement

  • The purpose of space (Residence, Villa, Store/Shop, Restaurant/Bar, Public Space, School, Museum, Exhibition, Hotel, etc)
  • Concept Design only
  • Detail Design is inclusive or not
  • Architectural Design is inclusive or not
  • Interior Decoration only (furniture, lighting, window treatment, and art only)
  • Signage or Branding tool design is inclusive or not
  • Facade design is inclusive or not

Client Requirement

  • Concept / Design direction is clear or not
  • How many renderings are expected
  • How many revisions are expected
  • How many meetings/business trips are expected
  • Architectural Management / Site Management is inclusive or not
  • Procurement is inclusive or not
  • Project Management is inclusive or not
  • Construction work is inclusive or not

If the construction work is inclusive, the design fee will be around 5-15% of total construction fee.

Normally it costs lower than appointing an independent designer however,  it might be difficult to control the quality of design or the uniqueness of design.

If you appoint an independent designer,  the simple formula is “Design Fee x Area (m2 or sqf)”.

In this way, the design fee will be generally USD80.0 – USD200 up to USD1,000 per m2  (*roughly 1/10 for sqf conversation).

This is really depending on the requirement, countries, purpose of space, or designer’s standard.

Also, this is very depending on what is included, like CAD drawings, furniture/lighting/accessory specification, travel fee, management fee, signage design, facade design, menu/marketing tool design fee etec.

Larger space would have discount, but there will be minimum charge as well.

Store/Shop would cost normally lower, but Restaurant/Bar would cost higher.

 

For example, let’s say you are opening new small (100m2) size middle-end restaurant in Tokyo, then the fee will be:

Design Fee ( USD10,000 – USD50,000) + Construction Fee (USD30,000 – USD60,000 for existing building / USD100,000 – USD150,000 for new built)

= USD40,000 – USD200,000 or more.

So that it’s important to find out the “goal” of the project in the begging.

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