Designer Contracts

A written contract or spoken understanding between a designer to client, used in employment, product sales, or rental and mortgage occupancy, is proposed to be imposed by the laws of the city, state, country, and internationally. This legal document explains the relationship or terms between a designer and a client. The parties involved in the contract must sign his or her to consent to the agreement. The following form is a template for a painting contract, but before using any contract, the designer should create the designer’s own agreement and the contract should be drafted in his or her specifics, and someone should review all contracts carefully.

Interior Designers' Contract

This agreement made the _________________ day of ______________ between Customer(s)__________________________ & company(s)_____________________________ for the following Project: ____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Resonsibilities _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(In agreement: Terms and Conditions: The design company will complete tasks called the "Scope of Work," the design company will produce a service or instruments called the "Documentation," and the client will pay the fees and reimbursement of expenses, called the "Project Fee.")

Scope of Work (Problem solutions)

• The work(s) detailed by the designer to complete a design/service specific to the client's wants and needs.

Documentation Quotation Preliminary Design

• Plans, procedures, and products written as a unit and priced as stated.

Documentation Actual Development Design

• Scope of work defined
• Refinements to Preliminary designs
• Materials and finishes used to complete the work
• Location Permits
• Units
• Pricing

Develop Agreement Finalize agreement

• Amendment or changes
• Client signature and Date
• Company signature and Date

Notice of Cancelation

• You may cancel this transaction, with no penalty or obligation, within three (3) business days from the above date
• Other rules may apply in state codes.

Notes and questions

Schedule Objective

Scheduling or writing a work schedule is a plan or method to complete a job. The written schedule is for a planned objective of completing a design and supplying the appropriate materials in the design job. This schedule will reference the sequence of the work specified, the contractors used on the job, and the operation of timeframe to complete the job as per date agreed upon. As an example, it allocated the work in a three-week completion date.

Scheduling

A planned objective for completing a design: A schematic of the work, and an outline of what the client and designer want to achieve on the job. This complete design needs to be estimated out and decided on by the client and designer. In this aspect, can the client afford this work, and does the designer want to take on the Job?

Supplying the materials in the design: Make a list of materials, fixtures, hardware, paint, lumber, plumbing, electrical, flooring, etc. Get a set price on the materials, where to buy the materials, availability of the product, and installation of materials, and the installers agreed upon by the client and the designer.  

Contractors used on the job: Make a list of potential contractors and have three to five options for the client to choose from. Have the client meet the contractor and review the scope of work schedule and business qualification. The operation or timeframe to complete the job as per date agreed upon in writing.

Reference the sequence of the work specified: Make or create a timeline or a work schedule for the time allocated IE: three weeks to four months. One way is to create a Gantt chart.

You can find a template copy online under "Gantt Chart for Construction" or through an Excel program if provided by your computer.