Stacey Lapuk Interior Design Somona

Stacey Lapuk Interior Design Group is a full-service design firm specializing in high-end residential interiors. Each of our projects are custom designed to meet each of our clients' unique tastes and needs. In order to demystify the design process, we have composed a brief explanation about who we are and what we do. Design is an art, a craft, and a business, entailing a process as well as an end product. Clients often have many questions, including the all-important: "How much time can the process be expected to take, and what factors influence the final cost?" We pride ourselves in being inventive yet practical designers who employ our experience, expertise, and talents to create appropriate environments for our clients. In order to work together to achieve your dream, we as the designers need certain things from you, the client. We need you to do your homework: Verbal descriptions of likes, dislikes, needs and wants; visual examples - pictures from magazines, your sketches and swatches. Information about the project: photos, plans, city planning and building department information, and neighborhood information. The more thorough you can be in the earlier stages, the less time will be spent, in fact-gathering and planning, and the more expediently the project will proceed. Secondly, in the course of the design process, we will offer you several options for any particular item based on your requirements and our knowledge of the many options available - whether space, layout, style, color or fabric. There will be many decisions about things you may never have considered before: Do you like this knob or that, this faucet or that, contrasting welts on your sofa or not? You may have strong feelings about each minor detail, or care about some and not others, or not have any interest and prefer we decide based upon our overview of the project. Be assured that we are keeping an eye both on the "macro" and the "micro" so that everything will come together in the end. In order to do our job efficiently, we need to have your decisions made in a timely manner. If you can't decide, or change your mind, then you must realize that there is a time and cost factor for us to delay, re-draw, re-select, and re-present further options. The decision -making process is critical during the planning stage of a project. If decisions aren't made, phone calls not returned, we would have to operate on assumptions, which we prefer not to do since we want to give you what you want. Finally, we will gently stretch your perceptions of what a warm, welcoming space can be. We bring our knowledge of color, comfort, function and style to your particular situation, and sometimes a leap of faith will be required; we have been through hundreds of projects. Our experience is that often, after completion, clients look back and realize how much they have grown, how wonderful a space can be, and are very glad they have trusted us with the work. We will help you visualize the end result with artist renderings, sketches, drawings, samples, etc.