Now there is a third aspect that has come to stage in the last years. This is the care that architects and material providers have started to have about the environment. Green and friendly materials are all over the stores. Architects are also applying new techniques to build houses powered by the sun and other systems that somehow take care of the environment.
Now architects have to find the way to not lose their clients due to this. The problem is that environmentally friendly products are not always the best or most efficient ones at the moment of constructing. They are also not the cheapest ones most of the times. This forces architects to spend more material and more time in making the construction safe enough using these materials. People that are into building a green house are not always aware of the price difference there is between one of those and a normal house.
Architects that deal directly with material providers in order to make things simpler for their clients have started to have some issues when it comes to interiors. Interiors were not affected by the aspects described above. This was exactly were architects balanced their spending to generate a good price. They looked for a way to lower the spending inside the house even if the outside was impossible to lower. However, for some reason, interior materials have come to increase their prices strongly. Lamps, furniture, floors, ceiling, all there is in an interior has come to be more expensive. This was something that had not happened for dozens of years. However, recently, designers have had to start charging more for their services as it is more expensive for them to materialize what they design.
This notable price increasing has been studied, and it has been proven that Europe is suffering it more than America. This is due to a simple fact. Thousands of interior material producers are installed in the United States and other parts of America. In America, generally, it is cheaper to produce materials than in Europe. Handcrafting is a lot more expensive in Europe in fact. Also, America doesn’t really have to worry about shipping costs. In the other hand, Europe does have to pay shipping costs in order to get products from America.
Why is this something to be worried about? Well, a very characteristic thing about inflation of prices is that once a price increases, it never decreases again. This makes us understand that prices will stay as high as they are now, or simply increase more. This will force interior designers to pay more for their materials and charge more for their services, which lowers the amount of clients they will have. This way an economical crisis is clearly starting to hit the interior designing niche. The only thing that there is to do is finding the best materials at the best prices in order to lower the total construction cost. Even if you are the client or the architect, look for the way to lower your prices without living quality aside.
