Design Services

At Morris Lare Interior Design, we understand that your home is more than just a space – it’s where your story unfolds. Many homeowners feel overwhelmed by the challenge of turning their vision into reality, unsure of where to start or afraid of making costly mistakes. That’s why we’ve crafted design services that guide you, step by step, towards creating a home that not only reflects your unique personality but also enhances your daily life. With Morris Lare by your side, you’re not just investing in a beautiful space—you’re ensuring every chapter of your home story is as inspiring as you’ve always imagined.

DESIGN SERVICES

At Morris Lare Interior Design, we understand that your home is more than just a space – it’s where your story unfolds. Many homeowners feel overwhelmed by the challenge of turning their vision into reality, unsure of where to start or afraid of making costly mistakes. That’s why we’ve crafted design services that guide you, step by step, towards creating a home that not only reflects your unique personality but also enhances your daily life. With Morris Lare by your side, you’re not just investing in a beautiful space—you’re ensuring every chapter of your home story is as inspiring as you’ve always imagined.

How to Work With Us

Strategy Session

In-home or virtually, we offer a two -hour Strategy Session that you can easily book online at any time. Jump start your design project with expert advice.

Designer for a Day

We created this service for clients who need more than a  Strategy Session but less than Full Service. Customizable to your projects needs.

Hourly consulting

We offer a limited number of hourly consulting packages based on our current availability. Purchase design time in blocks to use as needed.

Full service interior design

The majority of our projects are full service, which means that we guide you from the earliest stages of planning all the way through construction to installing your new furnishings, hanging art on your walls, and styling your shelves. The scope for each project varies. All full service projects begin with a complementary Discovery Call and paid in-home (or virtual) consultation. Our Investment Guide outlines our services, starting investment amounts, and more information in a downloadable PDF.

Design Services

Our design team has a combined 25+ years of hands-on experience. We offer our clients depth of knowledge as well as breadth. Our typical projects include one or more of the following:

I'm so happy with my house and can't thank Alicia and Jillian enough for guiding me through it. It's hard to put into words, but I feel a sense of peace and happiness when I'm in the spaces they designed. Everything works together and matches my vibe, and its really very relaxing to live this way - I don't know why I didn't do it sooner!! We had a huge family dinner here just this past weekend and it was so nice to have everyone fit in the space, and different people cooking and prepping while others could sit and visit. Exactly what the space was meant for. ❤️

Our Full Service Design Process

Morris Lare is a full-service interior design firm. We design complete rooms from start to finish – space planning through accessorizing and styling. Each individual project has a unique set of requirements, but we follow the same process every time, which allows us to deliver our clients the best results and experience.

How to Get Started

Step 1: The Discovery Call

Every new client relationship begins with our Discovery Call. The goal of this call is to understand your unique design needs, timeline, and budget. We’ll explain more about our process, what it’s like to work with us, and how we can guide you through your design project.

 Download our Investment Guide below and you’ll receive a link to book your call.

Step 2: The Consultation

The Initial Consultation is an in-home exploratory meeting that gives us the opportunity to meet with you in person, experience your space, and provide high level advice on the strategy for your potential renovation or decorating project.

We gather all of the information we need to prepare a detailed design investment proposal for you.

Step 3: The Proposal

After the consultation, we send you a written proposal outlining the scope of work for your project including our design fees and your level of investment for the project. Our business model is based on a flat fee investment for the creative portion of your project, hourly project oversight to see the project through to completion, and a minimum investment with our firm for furnishings, lighting, window treatments, and/or other design elements.

Interested in working with us on your next design project?

Download our Investment Guide.

Frequently Asked Questions

We are primarily a full-service interior design firm. By full-service, we mean that we take a leadership role in your design project, guiding you from initial concepts and space planning all the way through purchasing furnishings and other design elements to installing them in your home complete with all those little details and finishing touches.

We work primarily on a flat fee basis for design and charge hourly for construction oversight. After meeting with you and determining the scope of work for your project, we will prepare a proposal for design fees along with a minimum expenditure for furnishings and other items to be procured by our firm. 

We also offer an hourly consulting package for smaller projects on a limited basis. Depending on your project, we can make recommendations on whether an hourly or flat fee structure would work better for you.

We recommend contacting us at least six months before you would like to start your project and up to a year before starting a new construction home. This will give us an opportunity to evaluate our schedule and give you an accurate estimate of when we can begin designing your project.

The length of the design process depends on the scope of the project. New construction home design can take up to a year to design. We prefer a 4-6 month design development phase for new builds and major renovations, so that design decisions are made thoughtfully.

The design process for smaller renovation projects, kitchens and baths, and furnishings projects averages two months. Design of larger renovation projects and additions can last three months or more.

The design process does not factor in the construction time for projects to be implemented, or for furnishings to be delivered. The construction portion of the process is often controlled by the contractor or builder’s schedule. Custom furniture lead times can vary from three-six months.

As soon as possible. Ideally, we would start design for a new construction home a minimum of six months prior to breaking ground, and sometimes up to a year depending on the complexity of the design. We take a limited number of new build and full renovation projects per year, so we often have a wait list.

We are a very collaborative firm and love partnering with our clients, their builders, and architects. We believe that interior design is a very personal process, and we spend a lot of time at the beginning of each project getting to know our clients and how they live. 

We approach every project with our structured, tried and true process. But, within that structure, we allow room for flexibility to respond to a client’s individual needs. We partner with each client to establish a vision for their home and solicit feedback from them at each phase of the process.

We have established relationships with preferred vendors for everything from upholstery to lighting to linens and everything in between. Think of our procurement services like working with a retail store. We curate options for you from our partners and procure them on your behalf.

Occasionally, we may fill in with an item sourced through a retail store. However, 95% of the items we specify are from our vendors. We prefer to work with our vendors and sources because we have vetted them for quality and customer service.

We have also curated an online shop that is managed and facilitated by a third party partner called Side Door. If we decide together that you would like to implement your design on your own or over time, we can set up a custom shop collection just for you.

Yes, we have several preferred contractors and partners in Central Iowa that we love partnering with on a regular basis, and we would be happy to make a recommendation once we get to know you and your project.

If you already have a partner or builder for your project, we are open to working with them.

We love to travel to new locations and have designed projects from coast to coast. We would be happy to send you more information on the process for long distance projects including our day rate for travel.

We are not offering completely virtual services at this time though we may add this service in the future.

We can’t wait to hear from you! Start the process by downloading our investment guide.