Describe your studio and ideal project. Makeform builds an interior design intake questionnaire for style references, room priorities, budget, decision-makers, and site details.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Homeowners furnishing or redesigning several rooms
Format
Multi-step questionnaire with image uploads
Prompt size
299 chars
Example questionnaire structure
Multi-step questionnaire with image uploads
Which rooms are in scope?
How should the finished home feel?
Upload inspiration and room photos
Comfortable and maximum budget
Target completion date
Suggested routing tags
Full-service design
Design consultation
Renovation
Separate the client's comfortable budget from the absolute ceiling, and say what the amount should cover.
Step 1
Qualify
project type, location, scope, and timing
Step 2
Discover
style, routines, priorities, and constraints
Step 3
Align
budget, services, stakeholders, and decisions
Step 4
Prepare
photos, plans, measurements, and consultation agenda
Better discovery calls
Capture the routines, budget, constraints, and decision process that determine whether a project fits your studio.
Required scope, budget, property, and timeline fields give every inquiry the same baseline for assessing fit.
Collect inspiration with notes showing whether the appeal is palette, layout, lighting, texture, or mood.
Branch by project and room, so kitchen leads see appliance questions while living-room clients see seating needs.
Designed around your services
Show a focused path based on the service, property, and spaces selected.
Capture whole-home priorities, phased rooms, procurement, routines, and client involvement.
Ask about drawings, contractors, conditions, retained items, move-out limits, and dependencies.
Request measurements, photos, inspiration, shopping links, and decisions to resolve.
Gather brand, occupancy, activities, stakeholders, landlord limits, opening dates, and approvals.
Intake workflow
Generate the structure, replace generic choices with your real services and budget ranges, then route complete responses to the person who handles new projects.
Tell Makeform which services you offer, the property types and locations you accept, your normal project scope, and the information you need before agreeing to a call.
Add your service names, regions, starting budget choices, and consultation availability. Make room-specific follow-ups appear only after a client selects that room.
Place the questionnaire on your inquiry page or share its public link. Clients can answer from any device and upload room photos, plans, and reference files in context.
Receive the response in Makeform and notify your intake lead. Send fields to a sheet or connected workflow so qualified projects can move into consultation scheduling.
Questionnaire vs email
Ask every prospect for the same essentials while leaving space for their project story.
Field guide
Connect aesthetic preferences to scope, behavior, money, timing, and authority.
Client and property
Collect contact, address, property type, ownership, size, and occupancy to spot access or service-fit issues.
Scope and priorities
Ask which spaces need work, what fails today, and what success looks like. Separate furnishing, layout, renovation, and procurement.
Style direction
Request style words and references, then ask what appeals in each image to reveal usable design signals.
Budget and investment
Define what the budget covers. Separate a comfortable target from the ceiling and ask where clients prefer to invest or save.
Timeline and logistics
Ask about move dates, events, access, occupancy, delivery restrictions, and dependencies—not only a reveal date.
Decisions and collaboration
Identify who approves the project, the desired guidance, review pace, and any existing architect, contractor, or landlord.
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Practical answers for designers qualifying residential and commercial inquiries.
It is a pre-consultation form covering the property, scope, style, functional needs, budget, timing, and decisions. The consistent brief helps a designer assess fit and prepare.
Ask about rooms, services, current problems, room use, retained pieces, desired mood, preferences, budget, timing, logistics, and decision-makers. Show room-specific follow-ups only when relevant.
Define what the number includes, then ask for a comfortable target and maximum ceiling. Include a priority question to show where the client would invest or compromise.
Yes. Place uploads beside related scope, property, or style questions. Ask what appeals in each reference so every image carries useful context.
Yes. Conditional logic can show appliance questions for kitchens, capacity and technology for offices, or repeated room priorities for whole homes.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and keep collecting design inquiries without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Usually it should prepare the call. Collect facts, preferences, files, and constraints first, then use meeting time to clarify priorities and explain your process.
Keep shared qualification concise and branch into relevant room details. Group fields into steps, explain budget questions, and require only essential answers.
Start every design conversation with a useful brief.
