When to Contact Geometrium for Your Project
You should contact Geometrium when you’re planning any interior design or architectural project, from apartment renovations to commercial developments. The ideal time is at the earliest stages of planning—before making structural decisions or finalizing floor plans—to maximize design quality and avoid costly mistakes.
Project Planning Stage Is Critical
Bringing in a design studio at the onset of your project provides the most value. Geometrium specializes in both residential and commercial architecture, working with projects ranging from small studios to buildings over 600 square meters. Early involvement means designers can collaborate with architects on initial floor plans, influence structural decisions, and ensure your space truly reflects how you’ll use it.
For major renovations involving structural changes, hiring interior designers beforehand is vital, as they specialize in interior layouts and work alongside architects and structural engineers. When you wait until construction has started, your options become limited by decisions already made. Walls are set, electrical is placed, and plumbing is roughed in—all without considering the design potential of your space.
Interior designers are often booking weeks to months out before they can begin new projects, which means planning ahead is essential. If your contractor needs exterior materials selected next week, you’ve already waited too long.
Project Types That Require Professional Design
Geometrium handles diverse project categories including residential interiors, villas and country houses, architecture for developers, and interior design for businesses. Each category has different timing considerations.
Residential Projects
The studio creates apartment designs from small cozy studios to multi-storey buildings, working with spaces typically between 80 and 600+ square meters. Contact them when you’re dealing with:
- Major renovations involving wall removal or relocation
- Complete apartment redesigns where you want a cohesive aesthetic
- Complex engineering systems like smart home integration, custom lighting, or soundproofing
- Open-concept conversions that require structural evaluation
Geometrium works with complex engineering systems, developing detailed drawings and technical specifications that meet all requirements and standards. These technical aspects require early planning—you can’t retrofit a sophisticated smart home system after walls are closed.
New Construction and Villas
For new builds, reach out to a designer as soon as you begin working with your architect, or possibly even before. The studio specializes in villas and country houses, often incorporating features like home theaters, smart glass technology, and integrated appliances.
New construction offers maximum flexibility, but only if designers join early enough to influence the blueprint stage. Interior designers review blueprints to ensure plans make sense for the client’s lifestyle, often creating furniture plans for key spaces so clients can visualize what’s possible. This prevents the common mistake of building a beautiful structure that doesn’t function well for daily life.
Commercial and Developer Projects
Geometrium provides architecture and interior design for developers, creating residential complexes, hotels, offices, restaurants, and bars tailored to specific business requirements and target audiences. For commercial projects, timing is even more critical because these spaces need to generate revenue, and delays directly impact business viability.
The studio develops master plans, planning solutions, volume of buildings, 3D visualizations, and comprehensive working documentation for entire complexes. Developer projects benefit from bringing in design professionals during the initial concept phase, as they can create preliminary designs in approximately 1.5 months, allowing sales to begin while detailed development continues.
Signs You Should Contact Geometrium Now
Certain situations indicate immediate need for professional design support:
Budget Uncertainty
If you’re unsure what your renovation actually costs, contact the studio for consultation. Geometrium prepares approximate budget tables to estimate costs during repairs as part of their project work. Many homeowners underestimate the time and energy needed for renovation projects and quickly become overwhelmed when trying to manage them alone.
Interior designers help ensure every pound spent on interior fit-out is stretched as far as possible, presenting budget breakdowns well before the build is underway. Without this upfront clarity, you risk discovering halfway through construction that your budget won’t cover your vision.
Feeling Overwhelmed
General contractors expect plan and elevation drawings with all details figured out—from plumbing fixtures and tile to door knobs and baseboards. That’s thousands of decisions requiring product knowledge, spatial understanding, and technical expertise most homeowners don’t possess.
Geometrium’s architects and interior designers specialize in specific premises types, so your space design is created by specialists with years of experience in similar projects. This specialization prevents the paralysis that comes from facing too many unfamiliar choices.
Structural Changes Planned
Understanding which walls can or cannot move is one of the bigger challenges in renovation planning. Interior designers are trained to design interior layouts, so if you’re completing a major renovation that involves removing or relocating walls, hire the designer first.
This isn’t just about aesthetics—it’s about feasibility. Load-bearing walls, hidden utilities, and building codes all constrain what’s possible. Designers know how to work within these constraints or find creative solutions around them.
Geographic Distance
Geometrium provides remote services for clients from other cities and countries, accompanying construction without distance restrictions whether you’re in Russia, England, or the UAE. Distance shouldn’t delay contacting them. The studio uses Zoom calls and detailed video explanations to maintain constant communication with remote clients.
One client testimonial notes: “We are not in Moscow, so it was important for us that the connection with the studio was constant—such a request was taken into account. Designer Dmitry was always in touch, arranged zoom calls, recorded video with detailed explanations. And before starting work, he promptly flew to our city”.
What Happens After Initial Contact
After contacting Geometrium, you’ll discuss preferences and implementation options with a specialist during an online meeting, and one of their managers will contact you to set an appointment with the art director.
The consultation covers work deadlines and budget for implementing your project, with guidance on financial costs at each design stage. This initial consultation establishes whether the partnership makes sense before significant time or money is invested.
The studio has completed over 700 design projects in different interior styles, working worldwide. Their portfolio spans modern, classic, minimalist, Scandinavian, and high-tech styles, meaning they can adapt to your aesthetic preferences while applying their technical expertise.
Cost Considerations
According to industry data, the average cost of remodeling a house ranges from $20,000 to $100,000, depending on factors like home size, material quality, and structural changes needed. These numbers make clear why professional guidance matters—at these investment levels, mistakes become extremely expensive.
Interior designers can help clients save money in several ways: they have resources and contacts to assist with hiring trades, help with bidding and negotiation, typically receive trade discounts on everything from fixtures to furniture which they pass to clients, and prevent costly mistakes during renovation.
The consultation fee represents a small fraction of total project costs, yet it can prevent errors that multiply expenses dramatically. Renovations nearly always take longer and cost more than anticipated, so building in a 20% contingency to cover hidden issues or design changes provides a safety net.
Avoiding Common Mistakes
Jumping into projects without detailed planning often results in regret and expensive changes later. Inadequate planning, the cornerstone of any successful renovation, can lead to overspending, frustrating delays, and compromised results.
One of the most costly renovation errors is not hiring professional help when needed. While YouTube can teach you how to repair a leaky faucet, you can’t learn the nuances of renovations in a 10-minute clip—and you probably shouldn’t try.
Common mistakes include choosing cheap materials that don’t match expensive materials’ quality and durability, cutting corners to save costs upfront but facing long-term problems, and focusing only on immediate needs without visualizing requirements. Professional designers help you avoid these pitfalls because they’ve seen them repeatedly in other projects.
The Practical Timeline
Scheduling your consultation early in the planning stage provides several advantages: you avoid costly design mistakes before construction begins, can secure access to materials and finishes before market fluctuations affect pricing, and have more time to plan for energy efficiency, smart home systems, and other upgrades.
For context on timing: Major renovation changes can require a minimum of two additional weeks for material selection, delivery, old component removal, and new installation. Multiply this across all project decisions, and you understand why starting early matters.
Designer Sandra Funk emphasizes there’s no such thing as bringing in a designer too early, noting she’s been brought in while couples were apartment hunting to assess feasibility of making spaces work for their needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
What if I already have architectural plans?
Contact Geometrium anyway. Even if blueprints are complete, designers recommend consulting with an interior designer to review them if it’s not too late, to see what can be done to maximize layout potential—not just for furniture, but for electrical, door swings, moldings, and built-ins.
Can they work on small projects?
Geometrium creates designs for spaces ranging from small cozy studios to multi-storey buildings over 600 square meters. Project size matters less than project complexity and your need for professional guidance.
How long does the initial consultation take?
Interior design consultations typically last between one and two hours, depending on the project’s size and scope. This meeting covers your vision, project scope, budget, timeline, and allows both parties to determine if the partnership fits well.
What should I prepare before contacting them?
Know your budget, think about how you use the space, and gather inspiration if possible. Taking time to explore your likes and dislikes before consultation ultimately benefits the entire process—gather inspirational photos, research different aesthetics, and indicate what you don’t like.
When to Move Forward
The question isn’t whether to contact Geometrium, but when. For any project beyond basic cosmetic updates—whether residential, commercial, or architectural development—early engagement with professional designers improves outcomes and often reduces total costs through better planning and mistake avoidance.
The studio’s specialists evaluate whether designers, architects, and other craftsmen can work within your chosen timeframe and name the exact date for starting work. This clarity comes from initial consultation, giving you realistic expectations rather than optimistic guesses.
Contact them when you’re serious about your project but haven’t made irreversible decisions yet. That window—between initial concept and locked-in plans—is where design expertise creates maximum value.