{"id":21575,"date":"2025-10-14T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roomsketcher.com\/?p=21575"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:38:04","slug":"how-roomsketcher-became-interior-designer-katie-christensens-magic-wand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roomsketcher.com\/blog\/how-roomsketcher-became-interior-designer-katie-christensens-magic-wand\/","title":{"rendered":"How RoomSketcher became Interior Designer Katie Christensen\u2019s \u201cmagic wand\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

For interior designer Katie Christensen, communication is everything. RoomSketcher helps her show clients exactly what their dream spaces will look like.<\/p>\n\n

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Why is RoomSketcher the right software for interior designers? We spoke with Katie Christensen, a RoomSketcher user and a professional interior designer with almost 30 years of experience, for her thoughts on the matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katie\u2019s business, Interiors Redefined, is based in Washington. She told us her clients loved the work she creates with RoomSketcher. They\u2019ve even called RoomSketcher her \u201cmagic wand.\u201d We sat down with her to find out more about how she turns her clients\u2019 wishes into reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t

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Starting Out in Interior Design<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Challenges<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RoomSketcher Advantage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step-by-Step Process<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Client Reactions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Starting Out in Interior Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Interior design was something Katie had always wanted to do. She has drawn floor plans<\/a>, facades, and interior decorations since childhood and has always been \u201creally interested in design and the process of it,\u201d attending open-house events with her mother whenever she got the chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katie was always drawn toward the work\u2019s creative side, especially how buildings impacted their inhabitants\u2019 feelings. She told us she\u2019s \u201creally sensitive to environments,\u201d noticing the way she felt in different spaces, whether a store, a restaurant, or a street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her sensitivity helped her notice which elements created those feelings. She would find ways to implement her ideas, whether it meant sketching them out or convincing her parents to paint the front door a different color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Client work was the natural next step. She developed a love for building relationships and creating homes and businesses that reflected the characters of their inhabitants and the vision of their owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Challenges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Whether working on residential or commercial projects, Katie believes an interior designer\u2019s main challenge is communication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before adopting RoomSketcher, Katie \u201cwould sit down with clients whose vocabulary didn\u2019t necessarily sync with actual design terms,\u201d she said. The issue led to mismatched ideas and hours spent poring over online design and idea boards or, in earlier days, physical catalogs and magazines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from deciding on which designs to work on, creating and displaying them posed another challenge for Katie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBeing able to show them what their wishes would actually look like in their space was a lot harder to do without a lot of time involved for hand drawing or manual rendering. It was just so time-intensive, and most people didn\u2019t have the budget to pay for me to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Katie described how working with other tools took up much more time and wasn\u2019t always effective or worth the effort. DeltaCAD, the computer-aided design software she previously used to render furniture and other interior design elements, proved too basic. On the other hand, draftspersons and architects she worked with would use complex architecture software, but Katie didn\u2019t feel that this \u201cwas worth the investment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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When she came across an online ad for RoomSketcher, Katie was immediately intrigued. \u201cI could buy a few Credits<\/a> and experiment with it, see if it was something I really wanted before making a major commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katie said it was RoomSketcher\u2019s user friendliness that convinced her to dive in. \u201cI found it was really helpful to me, so I just kept with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With RoomSketcher, Katie could combine her creativity with clients\u2019 actual floor plans and physical spaces, and then present her ideas while making changes immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Getting the basics squared away is Katie\u2019s first order of business. She draws out the building\u2019s dimensions and apertures manually or submits an existing blueprint for conversion into a digital project in RoomSketcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her next step depends largely on the kind of project she is working on. For interior decoration projects, she jumps straight into mocking up her ideas in the digital space using RoomSketcher\u2019s extensive furniture library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New builds require more work, with Katie prioritizing discussion with the clients, their architect, or their draftsperson to \u201chammer out the details of how the space is laid out.\u201d Flooring and wall colors follow that before going through the furnishing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What follows is an iterative, back-and-forth process with the client where Katie presents several different options using RoomSketcher\u2019s 3D Photos<\/a> and 360 Views<\/a>, and adjusts the visuals depending on feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Client Reactions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Katie\u2019s clients love the work she creates with RoomSketcher, recommending her to other prospective clients based on the visualizations RoomSketcher provides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve referred to RoomSketcher as my \u201cmagic wand.\u201d Prospective clients reach out saying, \u201cI love what you did for so-and-so, can you show me what my home would look like?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve had people message me asking \u2018can you do your magic wand on this for me?\u2019 So it\u2019s obviously generated some clients based on what I\u2019ve been able to show other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\t

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