It’s the most magical day of the year for an Interior Designer. And no, it’s not Christmas, but it feels like it.

 

I’m talking about INSTALL DAY! ✨🎉

 

It’s that magical moment we’ve been working towards with our clients for months, or sometimes more than a year.

 

And because we’re professionals with every detail meticulously prepared, absolutely nothing ever goes wrong. 

Yeah, I wish.

 

The truth? On Install Day, something always goes wrong.

 

You know the phrase “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry”?*

 

*For some reason I remember from high school English that the original Scots version was “the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley” and while I can’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday, that fact will never leave my brain. But back to our story…*

 

And I need you to hear, First name / dear reader, it’s not for our lack of trying. We have a comprehensive pre-install checklist routine.

 

Despite all of this, Install Day has a way of surprising us with the wildest, most unplanned chaos. Here’s a quick hit list of our install-day “surprises”:

I could go on and on. 😅

 

It’s nerve wracking as you walk into Install Day, because there’s this lingering specter hovering over your shoulder, whispering to you “something’s going to go wrong” but it’s also (I know this sounds weird) exhilarating.

 

I am the least athletic person on the planet and never played a team sport, but I imagine this is how athletes feel before they step on the field. You can control your game. You’ve done your prep. But you can’t know what the other team is going to throw at you. But you know that you’re ready.

 

That’s the benefit of having done this for *checks notes* almost 20 years – we’ve seen it all. And what we haven’t, we’ve got the skills to take it on.

In short, we are essentially magicians. 🤣🪄

 

For our clients, this could feel like a day full of minor disasters. If you’ve never done this before, every bump in the road can feel stressful. Irrevocable. Insurmountable. In a word, TRAGIC.

 

But for us? This is what we’ve trained for. Just another problem to solve (which is what Deign is, really – pretty problem solving). It’s all fixable.

 

That’s why we encourage our clients to leave on Install Day. Not because we don’t love them, but so they don’t have to see how the sausage is made.

 

It’s way more fun (and less anxiety-inducing) to leave your house looking wholly un-put-together, and then to show up for the big reveal with everything in place (and blissful ignorance of how it got there).

 

It is truly the most satisfying part of our jobs. THAT LOOK. The moment our client’s walk in and they see their home for the first time.

 

Makes all the bandaids, sore backs, blood, sweat, and tears totally worth it.

 

Oh, and yes, we figured out the whole haunted chandelier situation. You’ll see that reveal in a few weeks!

 

But in the meantime, remember, if you’re planning a large furnishing project, you could absolutely do all of the picking out, the ordering, the managing, the returns, the coordination, the styling, the emergency management, and the chandelier exorcisms. But also you could just call us. 😉 It’s what we do.

 

Your magical Design Besties,

 

PS – Join us on the ‘gram over the next few weeks as we share behind the scenes of FIVE projects we’re wrapping up this year and get sneak peeks on the finished product! You won’t want to miss it.