Interior Design Estimate Template
Design fee, procurement and a furnishings budget that is an estimate rather than a price. Free PDF.
An interior design estimate covers two kinds of money that behave nothing alike. The fee is yours and you control it; the furnishings budget is a projection of what somebody else's showroom will charge for pieces that have not been selected, at lead times nobody can hold. Keeping the two apart on the estimate is what stops a sofa's price increase reading as a designer's overrun — and what makes the number of revision rounds a conversation before it is a grievance.
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ESTIMATE
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Issued by
Marchetti Interiors
312 Harrison Avenue 02116 Boston, MA United States studio@marchettiinteriors.example |
Bill to
Rosalind Ferreira
14 Chestnut Hill Avenue 02445 Brookline, MA United States r.ferreira@example.com |
| Description | Qty | Rate | Tax | Amount |
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Design fee — concept and two revision rounds Living room, dining room and entry; further rounds at 175.00/hr | 1 | $8,600.00 | — | $8,600.00 |
Furnishings budget — estimated, payable to suppliers Upholstery, case goods, lighting and rugs at current trade pricing | 1 | $42,000.00 | — | $42,000.00 |
Procurement and order management 12% of the furnishings spend, charged as ordered | 1 | $5,040.00 | — | $5,040.00 |
Freight, receiving and white-glove install Estimated; billed at the receiver's actual charges | 1 | $3,800.00 | — | $3,800.00 |
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What this estimate commits you to
- How long it stands
- Thirty days on the fee, and no time at all on the specification — every piece in it is at today's list price and today's lead time, and both move without notice.
- What it does not cover
- The trades. General contracting, electrical, plastering, painting, millwork and anything structural the drawings call for are contracted separately, as is window treatment installation and warehouse storage past thirty days. The furnishings line is a budget for the client's own purchases at trade price, not a price the studio is charging.
- What would change the price
- Choices and rounds. A revision past the two included, a room added to the scope, a substitution when a specified piece is discontinued or backordered past the install date, and trade coordination the drawings turn out to require.
- How the client accepts it
- Sign the letter of agreement and pay the retainer; procurement then begins item by item against a signed specification list, because an order placed on a custom piece cannot be cancelled.
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What to put on an interior design estimate
- How the fee is charged — flat by phase, hourly, or a percentage of the furnishings spend — and which phases it covers
- The furnishings budget stated per room as an estimate, distinct from the fee and not payable to you
- The number of concept and revision rounds included, and the hourly rate beyond them
- Whether pieces are bought at trade price through you, and what the procurement fee on them is
- Freight, receiving, warehousing and white-glove delivery, which are charged by the receiver rather than by the showroom
- Lead times as an expectation, and what happens to the install date when one slips
Questions
Should the furnishings budget be on the same estimate as the design fee?
On the same document, in a separate block. A client needs to see the whole cost of the room, but merging them makes your fee look like a fifth of a number you did not set — and makes every showroom price rise look like your estimate was wrong.
How many revision rounds should an estimate include?
Two is the common answer and the number matters less than writing it down. Unlimited revisions are not generosity, they are an unpriced service; naming the included rounds and the rate beyond them is how a designer stays profitable on the client who loves talking about it.
Why do lead times belong on an estimate?
Because they are the thing most likely to break the client's expectation. Custom upholstery in twelve to sixteen weeks, an imported light fitting in twenty, and an install date that follows the last piece to arrive — a client who reads that at the start does not read a delay as a failure.
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