Design Planning Day

Need help creating a design concept for your room that you can work with and shop on your own?

The Design Planning Day service is intended for clients who are design enthusiasts and would like to work directly with Karen in their home to help create a design plan but are willing to do the legwork themselves. It provides you with a foundation to create your ideal space.

The day brings Karen to your home with a consultation, giving you direct access to professional design expertise, insider tips, and advice.

Then Karen will return to her studio, taking the ideas you consulted for your room to create a mood board, a scaled layout plan, a personalized shopping list, and an overview of recommended materials and products. These details will guide you in designing your dream space.

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This service is limited to three rooms per day. (Design fees start at $2000 for the first room; Custom pricing is offered for multiple spaces based on your project needs.)

**Please note we are unable to provide to-the-trade access with this service. The design plan is for you to use as a guide and shop on your own. You will want to refer to our other services if you wish to access trade sources and need Karen to manage your project.

How the Process Works:

1. Design Planning Day Consultation

For our Houston area clients, it all starts with an in-home consult (the time is determined by how many rooms you wish to work on for the day). This is where Karen meets with you to outline your "Design Plan.” Karen walks through your room/s with you to determine your desired design direction. She reviews your ‘wish list’ and any photos or style ideas you may have collected for inspiration. She then creates a furniture floor plan if needed. Together, you collaborate in creating an outline of your room's Design Plan.

If you choose virtually, your consultation will be done via Zoom, and you will receive guided instructions on what we need before the video call.

Karen creates a personalized Pinterest Board at the appointment (using online sources) to store ideas from your day so you can use them immediately.

2. Marker Girl Studio Time

Karen then spends time in her studio pulling together your design details based on the ideas from the day.

Your Final Details Plan includes:

Furniture Scaled Layout Floor Plan
Design Mood Board - showcasing the design concept
Design Guide - suggesting what type of furniture to buy
Decorating Details - how to implement the plan
A Room Quick Guide - FAQ's for your room type
Design Binder - to help keep you organized

Your details plan and a video guide will be emailed to you within 7 - 14 business days. (The time frame depends on how many rooms you will be working on. There is a limit of up to three rooms for one day.)

3. Follow-up + Consulting

As you work with your Details Guide, for the first 90 days, you will have three follow-up emails from Karen. This is so you can check-in and ask Karen any questions you have about the plan.

Extra follow-up appointments are also available at a package rate if more assistance is needed on your project. You can use these to meet with me at your home and style your room for those finishing touches. Payment is collected before we meet at each appointment.

**Please note we are unable to provide to-the-trade access with this service. The guide is for you to use and shop on your own. If you wish to purchase from Marker Girl, please see our Design Plan + Consulting Service.

Schedule a Discovery Call to get started.

This call with Karen will help you understand what service fits you best and how Marker Girl can create the home of your dreams!

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Our In-Home Interior Design services the Houston metro include - Bellaire, Heights, West U, The Woodlands, Spring, Tomball, Cypress, Fulshear, Katy, and Sugar Land.

“The value we received from the day and the ongoing communication and ability to have questions answered as we checked off our list was more than worth the cost of the services."

Karen was very prepared for our design planning day. Her ideas were wonderful. She truly understood what we were looking for and provided very pointed and helpful advice and resources for shopping and services. She provided us with the framework and options to get us off to a wonderful start. From there doing the remaining legwork was relatively easy as we worked off the checklist we’d developed with Karen. An excellent option if you need some overall professional guidance and suggestions to get you from square one to completion, but want to do the purchasing yourself.

Dena | Houston, TX

"I did three different design planning days with Karen to help with completing spaces around my home."

She was very helpful in helping me make my ideas come to life and didn’t try to steer me into a style or design that I wasn’t comfortable with. In the end, my home turned out beautiful, and we really had fun working together. I highly recommend Karen Davis – Marker Girl. She was professional, fun, and always followed through with her projects. She also has great taste; you won’t leave working with her and feel like your home isn’t "you."

Brooke | Houston, TX

Design Planning Day

How the Process Works:

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