Describe your project and rooms. Makeform creates an interior paint color questionnaire for style, fixed finishes, lighting, practical needs, and color direction before a consultation or estimate.
Send client answers to Slack, Google Sheets, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a starting point, adapt it, or send it into the Makeform builder. Each structure is an example, not a live AI result.
Audience
Interior designers planning a connected residential palette
Format
Multi-room questionnaire with uploads
Prompt size
324 chars
Example questionnaire structure
Multi-room questionnaire with uploads
Which rooms are in scope?
How should the home feel?
Colors you love and avoid
Upload room and inspiration photos
Connected palette or distinct rooms?
Suggested routing tags
Warm direction
Cool direction
Needs consultation
Ask clients to identify fixed finishes that will remain. Flooring, stone, tile, and cabinetry often narrow the workable paint undertones.
Step 1
Scope
rooms, surfaces, timing, and decision makers
Step 2
Observe
light, fixed finishes, furniture, and photos
Step 3
Direct
mood, favorite colors, dislikes, and boldness
Step 4
Consult
review answers, sample options, and confirm choices
Better color conversations
A questionnaire separates visual preferences from physical constraints before time is spent sourcing samples.
Photos, adjacent colors, and fixed materials show where a palette needs continuity.
Mood words, inspiration, favorite colors, and dislikes clarify requests like cozy or fresh.
Traffic, pets, cleaning, repairs, and sheen preferences shape the finish discussion.
Built around your service
Choose a project type, then edit its language, choices, and required fields.
Learn the client's style, materials, room relationships, and appetite for contrast.
Collect scope, repairs, colors, sheens, access, and photos before onsite review.
Request room shots, lighting, orientation, inspiration, and paint history.
Connect brand direction with customer mood, traffic, access, and approvers.
Questionnaire workflow
Generate a draft, tailor it, and review room-level responses before the consultation or estimate.
Tell Makeform your project types and what you need before meeting the client.
Edit room lists, require photos, and add conditional room follow-ups.
Let clients gather paint codes, photos, inspiration, and household input before meeting.
Compare preferences with constraints and flag details that need discussion.
Questionnaire vs email vs mood board
Images show taste, but not room light, fixed undertones, finish needs, or approval roles.
Field guide
The best intake captures both what the client wants and what the room allows. Use these six sections as a practical starting structure.
Project scope
Record the property, rooms, and surfaces. Separate walls, ceilings, trim, doors, cabinetry, and built-ins.
Style & feeling
Ask how each space should feel, which styles fit, and what the client likes in each example.
Existing context
Paint sits beside flooring, stone, tile, woodwork, upholstery, and adjoining rooms. Record them with photos.
Light & orientation
Window direction, daylight, shadows, and bulbs change how samples read. Ask for observations as well as photos.
Color direction
Ask about favorite families, disliked hues, contrast, and comfort with deeper color.
Practical & approval
Record wear, cleaning needs, repairs, and everyone involved in approving the palette.
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Open toolFAQ
Straight answers for interior designers, color consultants, and painting contractors preparing a client intake.
It is a pre-project intake covering rooms, style, colors, lighting, fixed finishes, practical needs, timing, and decision makers before a consultation or estimate.
Ask about rooms, use, mood, materials that remain, daylight, adjacent colors, likes, dislikes, and the final decision maker. Request room and inspiration photos.
Yes, when conditions differ. Capture shared palette goals first, then ask each selected room about light, fixed finishes, current color, mood, and surfaces.
Yes. Add file upload fields and tell clients exactly what to provide, such as one wide view from each corner, close-ups of fixed finishes, daylight and evening views, plus inspiration images with a note about what appeals to them.
Yes. Ask about access, scope, dimensions, condition, repairs, colors, trim, sheen, photos, and timing. Flag anything that needs onsite verification.
Ask when the room is brightest, whether it feels shadowed, and whether bulbs look warm or cool. Request daylight and evening photos.
No. It organizes client preferences and room constraints so you can prepare a more relevant discussion or sample plan. Final choices can still be reviewed in the actual space under changing light and alongside the finishes that remain.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. A paid tier is available only to remove the Makeform badge.
Clarify the palette before opening the fan deck.
