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 Nightmare with interior designer in Malaysia, Are interior designers the same?

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post Jun 10 2025, 02:15 PM

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QUOTE(lightislight @ Jun 7 2025, 12:12 AM)
I doubt we know each other. Unless you are working closely with MoF.

First of all, thanks for your effort in your reply. Much appreciated.

Of course we know they cannot know everything. No one does except quacks.

But at least you humbly demonstrated and stated the limitations of an interior designer.

So we begin by stating, what is an interior designer.

I malas, so I will just copy and paste from wiki:

"an interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordinates, and manages such enhancement projects. Interior design is a multifaceted profession that includes conceptual development, space planning, site inspections, programming, research, communicating with the stakeholders of a project, construction management, and execution of the design"

Which is a fair definition for me right?

The house tiling / water proofing / major plumbing and toiletries / electrical wiring, including fans/lights/and aircond have ALL BEEN COMPLETED before the unit was handed over to the ID team for interior furnishing.
Mine is already a completed renovated house.
Hence, the interior designer did not need to handle the task that you have elaborated.

Really, the bare minimum I would ask of them is to install furnishings without further damage to my unit. But even that was too much to ask these days I guess.
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Yes. Malaysia is in crazy state of things where u need to pray hard the ppl u hired is actually human that able tondifferentiate right hand from left hand. Its that bad.

Normally in malaysia we tends to favor personal recommendation from known associate. ID for example we would look see friends/family friends house and see the end product then we ask if the ID is good. Hard to trust them based on online reviews and videos and what not. Also in Malaysia those that are good and reasonably priced will not bother to invest much effort into marketing.

Malaysia also in this twilight stage where there reslly is damn fucking a lot of unknown millionaire staying low profile. When a service is good, its almost guaranteed the cost will skyrocket to T1. Case example being, for B40 renovation probably cost 50k. Then u think 200k is reasonable high ceiling price to guarantee good result. But the truth is for the quality u expected the price probably goes up to 700k. The worst thing to be in Malaysia is being rich but not too rich. Entry level T20 will suffer a lot of injustice like this.

 

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