Rearrange It! - How to Start an Interior Redesign Business [Paperback]

Barbara Jean Jennings (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0961802642 | ISBN-13: 978-0961802646 | Publication Date: November 15, 2008

How to Start, Grow and Sustain a Highly Profitable Interior Redesign Business: Learn How to Aearrange Furniture and Accessories Clients Already Own and Make Money in Your Own Home Decorating Business. Learn the secrets top interior designers use to create beautiful rooms. Manual covers how to conduct consultations, questions to ask, business setup, marketing and promoting business. Written by West Coast Pioneer in Redesign and Director of The Academy of Staging and Redesign hosted at Decorate-Redecorate.Com. Includes detailed guidance, before and after photos, illustrations, tools to use and includes multiple forms. Based on author's 40 years in redesign, home staging and home based businesses.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Any library strong in either interior decoration or business titles simply must have REARRANGE IT! The author's been professionally rearranging homes in California since 1986: her home-based designer tips lend perfectly to those who would operate and foster home-based work while her case studies of clients, tips on what to charge and how to rearrange, assessments of what homeowners need most, and how to turn a chaotic home feel into a design masterpiece makes for clear, specific suggestions. While those selling homes and real estate agents will find this of key interest, so will both those seeking to make a business of home arranging and homeowners just seeking a more logical arrangement, making for a wide-ranging recommendation suitable for any public lending library. --Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Barbara Jennings, CSS/CRS (CA), is Director of the Academy of Staging and Redesign (hosted at Decorate-Redecorate.Com) and has trained thousands of stagers and redesigners through her home study books and dual certification courses. She has personally mentored stagers and redesigners across the USA, Canada, Australia and Europe since 2002. The Academy is hosted at Decorate-Redecorate.Com and Jennings has nearly 4 decades of experience in interior design, home staging, redesign, marketing and promotion of a business. She has successfully built 4 home based businesses in the design field in her distinguished career.

A best selling author of distinction (whose books are well noted for their specifics and detailed information), she has authored 13 books and 6 electronic books such as: Home Staging for Profit (print or ebook), Staging Luxurious Homes (print), Staging Portfolio Secrets (print), Getting Paid: Financial Strategies for Home Stagers (print), Home Staging for Yourself (print), Rearrange It (print or ebook), Decor Secrets Revealed (ebook), Arrange Your Stuff (print), Advanced Redesign (print or ebook, Where There's a Wall - There's a Way (print), Wall Groupings! (print), Pro Art Consulting (print or ebook), and The Secret Art of Hanging Art (ebook). She also developed the highly respected Certified Redesign Specialist Designation (CRS) and hosts one of the largest online directories for stagers and redesigners on the internet PLUS a free discussion forum for the exchange of ideas on staging, redesign and decorating in general. Jennings continues to actively develop and pioneer innovative, affordable visual aids, promotional tools, slideshows and CDs, home-study dual certification courses and assorted back-end products to assist readers in promoting and managing a staging and redesign business long term, which are all available at her website, including free monthly design newsletters, the Academy of Staging and Redesign, the International Staging and Redesign Directory and the free discussion forum. Look for more of her books, visual aids and tools at her website.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Ahava Enterprises, Inc. (November 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0961802642
• ISBN-13: 978-0961802646
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #302,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

HOME STAGING AND REDESIGN EXPERT - Author of 16 books, Barbara Jennings is the director of the Academy of Staging and Redesign (hosted at Decorate-Redecorate.Com). A nationally known, best selling author and trainer in home staging and interior redesign, she has helped thousands start and develop successful careers in staging, redesign and corporate art consulting. Her books, courses, visual aids and tools of the trade were developed over the past 8 years and receive rave reviews for comprehensiveness, helpfulness, personal style and frank honesty.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptionally Good Training, August 21, 2007

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This review is from: Rearrange It! - How to Start an Interior Redesign Business (Paperback)

I was one of those people who almost took an expensive seminar to learn how to do this business. How fortunate I am to have run across this excellent book on the subject instead. It was much larger than I expected it to be and packed full of just the kind of information I was hoping to find from how to get started, how to conduct appointment, how to set up and so forth. Not only does the author share her knowledge and experience generously, but she provides access to many additional resources she also provides to give you a well-rounded education to do the business with confidence. This book is filled with practical guidance and I will refer to it often, I'm sure.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Source!!, February 27, 2008

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designerchic "Genevieve" (Chicago IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rearrange It! - How to Start an Interior Redesign Business (Paperback)

As an interior designer, I was looking to expand my business into the home staging arena, but wasn't really interested in spending thousands of dollars on one of those 3-day courses. After ordering and reading the reviews from the author's Home Staging for Profit: How to Start and Grow a Highly Profitable Home-Based Staging Business, I stumbled across this book and am very thankful that I found it. As a designer, it provided knowledge that I already was trained in, however I thought it was a good refresher, because it reminded me of things that I had forgotten. I thought the author did a great job again in providing an in-depth guide about interior redesign. I found this book as well as her other to be quite informative, easy to read and chalked full of great tips and examples. I would highly recommend this to anyone who is interested in running their own interior redesign business.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Takes the mystique out of interior redesign, December 17, 2007

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Joni L. Altman "Design Consultant" (Encinitas, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rearrange It! - How to Start an Interior Redesign Business (Paperback)

This book explains the art and business of interior redesign in a completely understandable manner. Barbara Jennings left no stone unturned in this pratical guide. Her detailed advice enabled me to a become a more professional designer. I found the book enlightning and I saved money by purchasing this book, as opposed to attending an expensive time consuming seminar away from home.

Thank you Barbara!