Interior decorator near me — what you're actually looking for.

A decorating engagement is usually surface work: paint, furniture, window treatments, rugs, art, and styling in rooms whose walls, plumbing, and millwork are staying put. It does not typically include construction documents, cabinetry drawings, lighting plans, or coordination with a builder and architect — that is interior design work.

No. In North Carolina, 'interior designer' is a title regulated under the state's interior design statutes, while 'decorator' is not a protected title. Practically, the difference is scope: decorating addresses finishes and furnishings in existing rooms; interior design also addresses space planning, specification, documentation, and site coordination through construction.

Look for completed local homes rather than mood boards, ask who will actually be in your house each week, confirm how furnishings are sourced and marked up, and ask for a written scope with a defined fee. Proximity matters mostly because it determines how often someone can stand in the room with you.

Room-by-room decorating in Charlotte commonly runs from a few thousand dollars in fees for a single space to $25,000 and up in furnishings per principal room. Our studio's own engagements begin at a $35,000 design fee with furnishing budgets generally starting around $150,000, because we work at whole-home and new-construction scope.

Rarely. We accept six to eight commissions a year and they are typically whole-home, new construction, or full-floor furnishing engagements. If your project is a single room refresh, a consultation is usually the honest fit — and we will say so.

Our studio is in SouthPark. We work throughout Charlotte, Myers Park, Eastover, Foxcroft, Dilworth, Ballantyne, Cotswold, Providence, and the Lake Norman towns of Cornelius, Davidson, and Mooresville, plus select commissions elsewhere in the Carolinas.