Kitchen and bathroom designer

 Kitchen and bathroom designer
bath attendant, kitchen designer
Designing, adapting or installing storage, work surfaces and furnishings is both the creative and technical task of the kitchen and bathroom designer. He can work as a craftsman or for an industrial manufacturer. A profession that requires solid skills in carpentry, cabinetmaking, electricity and plumbing.

Professional life
Crafts, mass distribution
Craft businesses are still in the majority when it comes to layout. They recruit fitters who generally work on an entire project, from creation to installation. The large retailer also offers kitchen and bathroom fitting services.
Experience, an asset
Whether artisanal or industrial, companies are looking for qualified young people with solid technical training in carpentry and layout. The experience acquired on construction sites, knowledge of materials and layout techniques are essential to progress.
Career evolution
After a few years of activity, a fitter can progress to more complex projects. Another option: go into business for yourself and install integrated kitchens, through industrial distributors.
Beginner's salary
From the minimum wage and up to 1720 euros gross per month.
Working conditions
Craftsman or employee
If he works as a craftsman (carpenter or cabinetmaker), he carries out all operations, from design to installation of furniture. For a manufacturer, the fitter only intervenes to install the equipment at the customer's premises.
Team work
The designer is in permanent contact with his colleagues in technical study and manufacturing, with his suppliers and his customers. Depending on his experience, the fitter can coordinate a team of technicians, manufacturers and installers. A mission that requires organizational and communication skills.
Many trips
In this job, you have to love moving! If, in the company, the fitter divides his time between his office and the manufacturing workshop, trips outside are frequent: visits to customers and suppliers, installation of equipment, etc.
SKILLS
Creativity and technicality
Initially creative, the kitchen designer must have ideas: he knows how to combine colors, materials, play with volumes, different styles... and must have good pencil strokes to develop a project in the form of a sketches and plans. In addition, he must also have skills related to other trades, particularly in carpentry, cabinetmaking, electricity and plumbing, in order to determine the technical feasibility of the project.
At the forefront
If he wants to offer innovative solutions, the kitchen and bathroom designer must constantly ensure technological monitoring in order to stay systematically informed on the most recent techniques and especially on their commercial availability. Information monitoring is also essential in order to inquire about regulatory and legislative developments and thus establish a project that meets current standards.
Listening skills and interpersonal skills
Because he will have to define his specifications based on interviews with his clients, the designer will have to demonstrate psychology and a sense of listening in order to best understand their personality, their expectations, their family habits. .. In permanent contact with its suppliers, craftsmen and other service providers, the designer must know how to use his negotiating skills in order to obtain the best offers.
Nature of the work
Definition of a project
Designer of dedicated spaces, the kitchen and bathroom designer is involved from design to completion. A first interview with the client allows him to define the client's needs and desires, but also to carry out a technical analysis of the premises and take dimensions. This first step is essential since it is from these elements that the designer will define his specifications.
Developing plans
The designer then designs and produces layout plans with a view to creating living spaces that are both aesthetic and functional and adapted to the needs and requirements of their customers. A work carried out in the office which calls on both creativity - by playing on materials, volumes, colors - and technique, to resolve a junction detail between two materials, for example A step which can last 1 day to several months since the designer will present projects to the client until the client is satisfied.
Subject mastery
From then on, he orders materials and parts and organizes the site. The designer is responsible for meeting completion deadlines, quality and compliance with the amount of work set by the d