How We Work


DESIGN SERVICES – DKL works with private clients, developers and architects on a wide variety of commercial projects including museums, restaurants, condominiums, schools, and churches. We design clean, modern environments for beach cottages, luxury homes and high-rise condominium units. While we are first and foremost, a full service interior design firm, we also love to design new home construction, take on major renovations, and custom design elegant, modern fixtures and furnishings.
Design Services for commercial interiors and residential projects can include:
- Pre-Design
- Conceptual Design
- Schematic Design
- Design Development
- Construction Documents
- Permitting, Bidding and Negotiation
- Construction Administration
- 3D Modeling
- Project Management
We work with Owners, Architects, and Engineers to ensure aesthetic consistency while meeting scheduling and budget goals. At DKL we pride ourselves on customer service. We listen to our clients and work diligently to exceed their expectations. Because we only charge for our time, we can work with the most limited of budgets.
PROCUREMENT SERVICES – As a DKL client, you choose how much, or how little, of our Procurement Services you wish take advantage of. There is never an up-charge on purchases for furnishings or artwork. Instead, DKL passes through to our clients 100% of any Professional Designer Discount offered by Vendors. You pay only for our time.
Procurement Services to choose from include:
- Proposing Furnishings, Fixtures or Artwork suitable for your project.
- Floor plans or elevations indicating layouts/placement of proposed Furnishings, Fixtures or Artwork.
- Vendor sourcing for proposed Furnishings, Fixtures and Artwork.
- Coordinating materials, finishes, color selections and accessories for proposed Furnishings, Fixtures or Artwork.
- Obtaining formal quotes or purchase orders from Vendors, reflecting any Design Discount available, as well as all taxes, packing, shipping and delivery costs.
- Reviewing each formal quote or purchase order to assure completeness and correctness, and obtaining corrected quotes and purchase orders as required.
- Coordinating and verifying the receipt of payment to each Vendor.
- Verifying orders have been processed, and obtaining estimated delivery dates.
- Tracking the shipping and delivery of each order.
- Coordination of storage of Furnishings, Fixtures or Artwork as required.
- Vendor and client communications.
- Being onsite during delivery for inspection and accepting of delivered items.
- Coordinating the placement of furnishings by Vendor delivery team.