3 Costly Mistakes with Interior Designers in Navi Mumbai
The interior design market in India was valued at around USD 36.9 billion in 2025 and is expected to grow to USD 74.7 billion by 2034. This growth is driven by the growing real estate market, increasing disposable incomes, and more people choosing to invest in professional interiors.
Navi Mumbai is one of the fastest growing residential markets in the Mumbai Metropolitan region (MMR). Both buying activities and value appreciation of properties in Navi Mumbai has been steady since 2021. It means that as people are buying more homes in areas like Vashi, Panvel, Seawoods, Kharghar, and Ulge, the demand for smart storage, comfortable living spaces, modular kitchens, and high-end lighting plans is also on the rise.
Young professionals, nuclear families, upgrading buyers from Mumbai, and investors who hope to get good rental income from the homes they buy - all want easy to maintain and practical interior designing solutions in Navi Mumbai where small spaces can be maximised and also add to the house’s resale appeal.
But not all interior designers can do what you want. Here are three costly mistakes people make while hiring interior designers in Navi Mumbai (which you should definitely avoid):
1. Choosing to work with the cheapest interior designer
We, at Garrison Grove, understand that our natural instinct is to consider the cheapest interior designers in Navi Mumbai first - to save some money. Buying a property stretches our budgets and we start trying to ‘control’ interior costs.
But this isn’t smart saving. It turns out to be expensive in the long term.
Here’s what we have seen happening way too often. We give our quotes and some other designer offers to come up with the same design at a very less price. Prospects get drawn by their low quotes but later come to us complaining that they didn’t use quality woods or proper laminates or branded hardware or didn’t do proper site supervision.
Such interior designers in Navi Mumbai also have hidden costs. They charge extra for electrical work, better finishes, every little add-on in the storage blueprint agreed upon earlier.
The climate of Navi Mumbai is not kind to sub-standard material. Poor hardware and moisture cause shutters to misalign and boards to swell up. Redoing the kitchen costs more than choosing a genuine interior designer offering you a fair price quote for quality work.
2. Accepting instagram feeds as the real work by the designer
Instagram feeds do not show the reality of the quality of work interior designers in Navi Mumbai do. You need to understand that in our line of work, social media is where we curate our best work from the best angles and in the best lighting. It's usually the Day 1 finish that you see.
What a really impressive reel doesn't show is how a wardrobe is functioning after a year or how a kitchen with a glossy finish stood up to daily Indian cooking. You don't get to see peeling laminates or sagging drawers after the work is done.
Many interior designers in Navi Mumbai rely heavily on Instagram marketing. They often post sample flats or 3D renders of their plans online. They do not show you actual client homes. And their videos hide what you really need to know, such as installation of low-grade hardware, uneven finishes, or poor edge-banding.
The photos might look premium but the interior designer might be using basic materials on site - in real life.
We recommend homeowners to ask their designers to show homes where they have completed their work - preferably 6 to 18 months old, so that you can see how their work has aged.
3. Not getting the scope of work in writing
At Garrison Grove, we always share the exact scope of work in writing with you. And if you don’t get this done while hiring an interior designer in Navi Mumbai, it might be the most expensive mistake you are making.
It might sound like a small formality but getting what the designer is going to do for you in writing can smoothen out a lot of wrinkles in the project. Sometimes, during initial negotiations, the client asks for something, the designers say it will be done - without mentioning it might carry extra charges or will need extra time or forget about it altogether because it wasn’t mentioned anywhere.
A proper ‘Scope of Work’ document should include:
- What will be done in each room covered in the package
- What materials and finishes will be used for each element in a room
- What hardware brands or quality levels will be used there
- Number of design revisions that are allowed in the package (and what kind of changes will be entertained)
- How many site visits and what level of supervision will the interior designer provide
- What will be the timeline of your project and how much payment you will make at what stage
Get everything itemised and signed and share its hard copy as well as on email.
Choosing the right interior designers in Navi Mumbai is important if you want to protect your investment, want things to go smoothly, and want your project to be done on time.
Instagram and Pinterest may help with introducing you to a designer but always see their real work and get a clear scope of work in writing to reduce your risks later. Also, do not go for the lowest home interior packages in the market - understand what kind of materials, finishes, and supervision levels they include.
If you are in doubt, we can help you explain whether the ‘good deal’ that is tempting you is really good or not. Book a consultation with our interior designing experts in Navi Mumbai now!
