Scandi living room – perfect for work and play

We recently moved and I wasn’t really sure what to do with the space so I got the Designbx team to help me out.
My first impressions were genius. I love the set fee for the process, hourly rates make me a bit nervous, I kind of feel like an interior designer might just be strolling around a design centre and just picking up things and I would be paying for it. Whereas this one was just a flat rate and I knew what I was getting at the beginning.
I did the style quiz on the design box website and it turns out I like a style called Scandi. I’d never really knew much about that but I thought that it was fun to identify with something and every image I looked at that was Scandi i went ‘oh that is perfect that is exactly me’.
Using the website was really easy. I took some photos and uploaded them and then the most amazing thing happened. interior designers sent me ideas and incredible layouts of my space and we ended up having about 5 interior designers all with completely different ideas submitting concepts. I might be out shopping and my phone would go beep beep and I would have a notification that we had a new offer or new experience come through from design box about my space. So that was really exciting.
Choosing one of them was really difficult because there were 2 or 3 designs out of the 5 that I loved.
In the end the one that I decided on was a wonderful local lady called Donna and she submitted an image that had some incredible chairs that really caught my eye I looked at it and went I love everything in there and it really speaks to me and it was really my style. Everything she suggested was just bang on.
When an idea came through sometimes I sat with it for a week or a few days. I would have been under a bit of pressure had she been in the room and asking questions I would have gone ‘ooh yes/no’ and made a snap decision.
And there were a few nights I sat on the couch with the pictures and imagined things and having the time and the space of online I just don’t know why you would do it any other way.
I could just check my emails or respond to the team at a time that suited me
The personal shopper service I think it’s an add on service but I don’t think it should be.You couldn’t possibly go out and find these pieces yourself. I looked up online once the pieces were selected and they were much more expensive at a couple of other places that I found with huge lead times. so the shopper service I think was integral to the process so yes definitely tick that box.
I walk in and go ‘it looks like a proper lounge room a really beautiful space’ instead of there just being some isolated pieces of furniture that I just couldn’t bring together. that makes me go wow every time I come in here.
I think the online solution for interior design is so much better than working 1 on 1. It’s innovative because it’s better and I think it’s absolutely where interior design is heading. Why would you pick 1 person when you can have a handful of people all giving you fantastic ideas? It’s a no brainer for me.