Interior Design Questionnaire Template
Reads a client's taste before the first site visit — rooms in scope, styles they gravitate to, keep-pieces, hard nos, and per-room budget.
Design is easier to react to than describe — so this questionnaire asks about your life in the space, not just your inspiration folder.
Interior clients can point at a room they love faster than they can name one thing about it — which is why this questionnaire is built around reactions and boundaries instead of vocabulary. It gathers what a designer actually needs before a site visit: scope, gravitational pull, the immovable objects, the forbidden zone, and the money per room.
Keep-pieces are constraints, not clutter. The what-must-stay question surfaces the inherited armoire, the piano, the sofa bought last year at a price still fresh in memory. Designers who learn about keep-pieces at the concept stage design around them; designers who learn at install day redesign around them. One long-answer field converts that risk into a brief input. Its mirror — colors, materials, and looks the client cannot live with — is the fastest taste question in the trade, because aversions are sharper than preferences and far more stable.
Budget per room, not per project. A whole-project number hides the decision that matters: allocation. Per-room bands let a client say kitchen-first with money, not adjectives, and let the designer stage the project accordingly. Paired with the finish-by select, you get scope, sequence, and urgency from two clicks each.
Photos before the visit. The upload field accepts up to five photos of the space as it stands — phone shots are exactly right. Seeing the light, ceiling height, and existing pieces beforehand turns the first site walk from inventory into ideation. The photos ride along with the response, so the whole brief lives in one place.
What the questionnaire skips. Floor plans and measurements — those need a tape measure and a professional, and demanding them from clients produces guesses drawn on napkins. Pinterest-board links are welcome in the style conversation later; requiring them here filters out the half of clients who never made one. And no contractor or trade questions — scope of works comes after concept approval.
Who uses it. Residential designers send it between enquiry and consultation. Stagers use the rooms and timeline answers to quote sight unseen. Design-build studios route the answers into the project folder via webhook so the whole team reads the same brief. Email notifications mean the questionnaire lands in your inbox the moment it is finished — ideally before you schedule the visit.
Make it yours. Swap the style options for the vocabularies your market uses (coastal, wabi-sabi, maximalist). Add rooms your region cares about — mudrooms, granny flats, terraces. If your process wants more images, raise the photo cap or add a second upload for inspiration pulls. The two-page break sits between logistics and taste on purpose: get the factual half committed before asking anyone to introspect about eclecticism.
Frequently asked questions
How many photos can a client attach?
The upload block is set to five images (JPEG, PNG, or WebP). You can raise the file count or size limit on the block, up to 10MB per file.
Can clients finish the questionnaire in two sittings?
Yes — answers persist as a partial response while they think, and submitting later completes the same response rather than starting over.
Can the whole studio see incoming questionnaires?
Point the webhook at your shared project tool so each submission posts automatically, or export CSV for the project folder. Dashboard access stays with the owner account.
Is the address field required?
Not by default — some clients prefer to share it after the first call. Flip the required toggle on the block if your process needs it upfront.