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A free FF&E Budget Calculator for residential interior designers.

Enter room sizes, choose a specification level, and give your client an indicative furnishing budget in minutes, not days.

Every designer knows the moment. You're two conversations in, the client is enthusiastic, and then it comes: "Just roughly, what should we expect to spend?"

Answer too vaguely and you look evasive. Answer too precisely and you've committed yourself before a single item is specified. What you need is a credible ballpark, produced quickly, that frames the conversation about investment level before you've spent unpaid days building a specification.

That is exactly what this calculator does.

What it is.

The FF&E Budget Calculator is an Excel workbook, set up and ready to use.

• Ready-loaded pricing. Twelve generic room types, each fully costed at Low, Medium and High specification, producing a £ per m² rate for every room and tier.
• Room by room, tier by tier. Enter each room's floor area and choose its level. The principal reception can sit at High while the guest room sits at Low, within the same project.
• Yours to customise. The underlying room cost models are fully editable, so you can replace the estimates with your own typical expenditure and the rates recalculate automatically. It becomes a pricing tool calibrated to your practice.

It produces an indicative figure for furnishing and decorating, room by room and for the whole project, at whichever investment level your client wants to test. It is a tool for early conversations, not a substitute for a detailed specification.

That's the point: it lets you have the money conversation early, honestly, and on your terms.

Watch it work

Two minutes, start to finish: entering a project, choosing tiers, and customising the cost models with your own pricing.

 Taken directly from White Label Studio

This calculator is one working document from White Label Studio: a masterclass in running a residential interior design practice, launching in September at £500.

White Label Studio covers the full arc of the design process, and gives you the documents to run it.

Nine client-facing presentation packs, from How We Work through Concept, Budget and Developed Design to Handover.

Behind the scenes, the complete systems and processes documentation a practice needs, including a full suite of procurement documents for operating as both Agent and Principal.

One deliberate omission: contracts and terms and conditions. Those need to be drafted by a professional, bespoke to your practice, and any course that hands you a generic template is doing you a disservice. White Label Studio tells you what your solicitor needs to cover; it doesn't pretend to replace them.