Please remember that showroom designers' first goal is to sell product.

Get an independent interior designer. The money is the best you can spend towards a beautiful plan, selection of materials, which involves far more than just "high end tiles". He/she will have better help to do the actual work, and you will have a guide to your functional and lovely dream space. If you think you will get that at any Kohler showroom for 400.00 you are in dream world. Sorry........it's nothing more than a way to pay 400.00 for VERY little help, I will guarantee it.

It's hard to say....everyone charges differently. Sometimes hourly....sometimes design fee......sometimes commissions. I suggest you call a few designers in your area!

Call some in your area , it is impossible for us to give an answer to the question.

Hello Liz!

We normally charge hourly- gauging the amount of hours is difficult to do without discussing many details with you. However, we have done a few kitchens and bathrooms for cost plus. Meaning our fee is based on the cost of the job similar to many contractors. We charge this way because we do full drawings for contractors detailing the millwork, tile design etc. We turn out normally charging 20% of the whole job- including all work done by contractors and items purchased by the client.

We like this direction for a few reasons:

1. The client is not concerned about calling us about helping through design problems because we are not charging hourly.

2. If the job gets more complex it normally is being reflected in the overall costs. For example, if we need to specify specialty pull outs, research them and coordinate our drawings, the cost of the cost plus on the pull outs will cover our time.

3. We believe the client and the design benefit from this. It allows us to help run the job with the GC and help with every detail needed.

Keep in mind, our fee is based on our area, expertise and the types of jobs we do. We have evaluated how our cost plus fee compares to our hourly and they are very close to each other. So on our jobs, where we are providing a full set of drawings and designing. We are about 20%.

Lastly, I am guessing the Kohler designers are not going to assist too much, if at all, with details that Kohler does not specialize in. Meaning, if you would like millwork that Kohler does not manufacture, they will not help you with those items.

Hopefully this helps!

Cosa Belle Interiors