1. How many family members are going to live in the flat or house?
For commercial interiors – describe your business in terms of space, footfall. For example, for a cafe, it is important to understand the focus of the business. What kind of café is it – is it a chamber and quiet café, for a small number of visitors, or organised on the principle of fast food?
If it is an office – how many employees are in the room at the same time? Is it planned to receive visitors and in what quantity? Availability of reception, meeting room, demo room.
2. For living interiors – Age of each family member, their gender. The likelihood of adding to it in the near future.
3. Kinship ties of the family members.
4. Your hobbies, also hobbies of family members, in connection with which in the house it will be necessary to place specific items (collections, large-sized sports equipment, musical or technical instruments);
5. Presence of pets. Is it necessary to provide a separate place for them?
6. Guests – how often, how many, for how long. Is there a need for additional seating and sleeping areas, storage space, towel racks and bathroom shelves?
7. Change in the functional zoning of the room, is there a need to expand or reduce the size of the rooms.
8. Retention of existing walls (partitions)?
9. Special wishes of the customer on volume-planning solutions (interconnection of rooms, their transformation).
10. Preferred material in finishing (wood, ceramics, painting, wallpaper, plaster, etc.).
11. Desires for washing machine and dryer, do you need aqua guard, boiler?
12. What kind of light control to provide, switching from different convenient points or is it enough from one place?
13. For each of the rooms – preferred equipment in detail, e.g. bath or shower cubicle, whether a hygienic shower is needed.
14. Preferences for the technical part of the kitchen design, e.g. kitchen appliances. Whether the fridge is built-in or freestanding, how wide – single or double. What should be the built-in appliances – microwave, coffee maker, steamer. If the appliances will be placed on the worktop, what kind – kettle, toaster, coffee maker, multicooker?
15. Desired soundproofing of rooms (if music equipment, proximity of bathroom to kitchen, etc.).
16. Take into account furniture and other items that the owners intend to keep and transfer to the new interior: existing furniture, carpets, existing appliances, tools, books, paintings, etc.
17. Preferences for the use of plants and flowers, textile design, aquariums, stained glass windows in the interior.
18. Preferences for underfloor heating in specific rooms. Is it necessary to replace radiators?
19. Preferences on ceiling arrangement, whether lowering is possible. Whether the project will be outsourced, e.g. ventilation or smart home system.
20. Plans for technical equipment – air conditioners, home theatres, projectors, televisions, computers – number and in which rooms they are expected to be located;
21. Estimated budget (approximately) together with renovation works.
22. Colour preferences. Light interior, dark interior, other.
23. Colours that are unacceptable for you.