PLANNING & ORDERING

GET ORGANIZED

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  • Get Organized. Use your Project Work Sheet

  • Know your Costs

    • Before you order any major selections, get all the costs before you start ordering. This allows to put actual hard numbers in the budget.

  • Set a Timeline and Ordering Schedule with your contractor. Find out when they will need items in by and where items should ship to. It is important that all items be inspected immediately as they arrive. If not this can be problematic for your schedule and budget. Most vendors have a small window to be notified of damaged items.

  • Now you know your costs, create priorities on your project scope.

 
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TIPS // See our guides to help breakdown the ordering process. When finically possible we love it when all items can be shipped and stored to a receivers. That way they can inspect items on arrival and store everything safely. When ordereing PLEASE make sure that all furniture can be brought into house. You must consider: Front Door Opening Hallways, bends in hallways Stairways. Room Doorways

THE FULL PROCESS-sTEP BY STEP ON SELECTING AND ORDERING

  1. Floor Plan

  2. Lighting Plan

  3. Callout Materials for Budget

    • Woodwork, tile, stone, carpet or floors per room

    • Millwork plans (wainscoting, shiplap, how much crown…)

      • Window & Doors

  4. Select Doors and Windows (including hardware that often comes with sliding doors)

  5. Millwork Design

      • Wainscoting, shiplap, Board and baton,

      • Door and window casings

      • Crown and Baseboard

      • Painted walls, wallpapered walls

  6. Order Plumbing, in the framing process they will need to know where and what types of valves needed. They need to know in advance if the faucets are wall mounted, rain shower locations, vanity heights and styles.

  7. Order Light Fixtures. See our Lighting Guide (coming soon) with our tips on what to think about while going through this process. We are working on a list of things one should consider with each fixture (coming soon)

      • Create a Lighting Schedule. This is a useful thing to give the electricam with all locations, descriptions and specs. I like them to review everything prior to ordering. Things the Electrical will want to know in advance is also coming soon.

  8. Review HVAC locations. It is best to walk through the project to review where the returns and vents will be located to make sure they don’t interfere with locations like:

    • Furniture

    • Cabinetry that goes to the ceiling

    • Toekicks

    • Recessed lighting or fans/vemts

    • Recessed speakers

  9. Review AV. You need to consider where the TV is mounted, does the wall have enough blocking to support the wieght. Does the TV have built in speaker or will it require speakers, are they in the ceiling or will they be mounted to the wall or on bookcases. All these details matter. Also the relationship of the TV height and a fireplace mantle matter. The more information you have and can consider in advance, the better off you are.

  10. Lighting Walkthrus

    • This is something I advice you do a few times along the way. You should know in advance where the:

      • Cabinets are

      • Furniture Layout

      • Dimensions of selected fixtures

    • Look at Outlet Locations

      • Great to avoid outlets in middle of a backsplash, I love to stack them to the side where I can hide them with accessories or where I know where we will be placing an appliance.

    • Look at switch locations

      • There is noting worse than wanting to hang a piece of art and there is a freggin light switch in the middle of the wall. Get ahead of that, Know where you want art and plan in advance. Look at how many switches and what fixtures each box will control/

      • Write all this down!! This can be confusing. Keep Record

  11. Framing Walkthrough

    • At tiMes there are area you can call out in advance that you know might be extra heavy and you will want to add extra blocking. Examples

      • Heavy Window Treatments

      • Heavy Chandeliers

      • TVs

      • Heavy Mirrors

  12. Order Tile & Counters

  13. Door Hardware:

    • Interior

    • Exterior

    • Sliding

    • Privacy

    • Passage

    • Pocket door with lock

    • Sliding door

  14. Paint Schedule. Soon you will be able to see our Painting Guide for our Tips on Painting

  15. Window Treatments

    • Romans

    • Motorized Window Treatments - if motorized you must know to add wiring

    • Curtains (make sure you have room above to mount hardware

    • Shutters (heights, boxes, can they open, window crank thing

    • It is good in advance to know how much fabric you will need.

    • The window treatment hardware, romans or shutters should not be ordered until window casings are in. At times rods can be shortened on site at installation, I try and avoid telescope rods.

  16. Measure for Rugs so that you can in advance check for stock availability and also discuss binding issues. You will need to know where wood floors or stairs meet wall to wall carrels and decide on those transitions. They will have to come back when baseboard is in to do final measure.

  17. Order Furniture, Rugs and Fabrics. See our Guides. Advice on blue taping out a space

  18. Order Window treatments (when window casings are done)

  19. Order Art and Accessories