Book an English Speaking Interior Designer in Europe
Sixty minutes, in English,
about your home in Europe
This books a private consultation with one of our designers, by phone or video, entirely in English. You can choose the designer yourself from the list below, or tell us about the project and we will put you with the one who fits it.
Our designers are resident across Europe rather than visiting it, so the person you speak to knows what an Altbau ceiling does to a lighting plan, how doorway widths differ between countries, and which suppliers will actually deliver to where you live.
What an hour can settle,
and what it cannot
An hour is enough to get direction on layout, furniture and styling, to work out where your budget is best spent and where it is being wasted, and to leave with a clear next step rather than a longer list of options. It is usually enough to stop one expensive purchase going wrong, which is the part people write to us about afterwards.
An hour is not a design. You will not leave with a floor plan, a mood board or a shopping list, and anybody offering all three in sixty minutes is selling you the meeting rather than the outcome. What you will leave with is a decision about what to do next, and an honest view on whether that is a full design service, a smaller one, or nothing from us at all.
That is its own problem, separate from the design. Quotes arrive in a language you half follow, trades assume local conventions nobody writes down, and the expensive misunderstandings happen in the gaps. Working in English with a designer who knows the local market does not remove that, but it does mean somebody on your side reads the specification the same way the supplier does. More on how we work across Europe is on the English speaking design page.
What to have ready
None of this is required and the call works without it. Each item you do have moves the hour from questions to decisions.
What you actually
come away with
The hour is worth nothing if it evaporates the moment it ends, so it does not end with the call.
- A short written recap, with the next steps in it. What was decided and what to do about it, in writing, so you can act on it in your own time rather than reconstructing it from memory.
- A proposal, if you want one. A fixed price package and a timeline shaped around your project. Fixed price rather than an hourly estimate, so the number you are quoted is the number.
- Work that can start reasonably quickly. Typically within one to two weeks of the call, depending on the scope and the designer's availability.
- A scheme aligned to your budget, not to ours. If you have a figure, the design scope and the product choices are set against it, and the work is phased where that makes more sense than doing everything at once.
Booking, paying
and changing your mind
Set out here rather than left to be discovered. When you submit the form you are taken to a secure payment platform to confirm the booking, which is what reserves the designer's time and lets them prepare before you speak. We reply within one to two business days with available times, and confirm your designer match if you did not choose one yourself.
If you need to move the call, give us twenty four hours notice and we will rearrange it. If you cancel within that notice period you are refunded in full. We would rather say that plainly on this page than have you find it in a confirmation email.
What each design package covers is on the packages page, how a project runs from brief to installation on the process page, completed homes on the projects page, and the designers themselves on the team page.