Have an idea of what YOU want before you get into the renovating. Yeah, a lot of contractors have their own interior designers, but a lot of them have THEIR OWN ideas of how things should look when completed. Go through some show homes where the builder uses the same designer, they all look the same, pretty generic in a lot of cases.
The trick is to find one who is open to suggestions and ideas that you want to incorporate. Those type of designers are worth their weight in gold. They can save a lot of legwork and running around on your behalf. And some of the stuff they can access, the general public cant.
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