How to Start a Home Based Interior Design Business [Paperback]

Suzanne DeWalt (Author)

Book Description

Series: Home-Based Business Series | Publication Date: November 1, 1999

Completely revised and updated, this guide includes the author's experiences and advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based interior design business. It covers everything from developing a business plan and estimating start-up costs to pricing the services and staying profitable once in business.

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From the Back Cover

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based interior design business? Have you been hesitant to put your business plans into action? This book contains all the necessary tools and success strategies you need to launch and grow your business. Author Suzanne DeWalt shares her experiences and advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based interior design business. She will show you how to develop a business plan, estimate your start-up costs, price your services, and stay profitable once you're in business. Learn all about getting clients and referrals, outshining the competition, bidding competitively, establishing your daily schedule, organizing your business, getting paid and much more. (7 x 10', 240 pages, start-up cost worksheet, products and services chart, sample balance worksheet, profit-and-loss worksheet, cash-flow projections worksheet, weekly accounting ledger, vendor sale sheet, bid sheet)

About the Author

New Braunfels resident Suzanne DeWalt started her own home-based interior design business in Texas in 1988, successfully growing and expanding the enterprise. She has also worked as a representative for a carpet, window covering, and fabric manufacturer.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Globe Pequot; 2nd edition (November 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762705132
• ISBN-13: 978-0762705139
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #922,104 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #61 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Interior Design > Professional Reference

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119 of 122 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Should be called "How to Start a Drapery Business", January 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Start a Home Based Interior Design Business (Paperback)

The title is truly misleading. The authors "Interior Design" Business is a window covering business. She sells window coverings, flooring and wallcoverings but is apparantly not a designer. Don't expect any in depth advice on working with clients creating integrated room plans, using trade-only showrooms etc. If you want to focus on one aspect of the business, simply selling floor or window coverings, great. But, I feel cheated even though this book was inexpensive

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars how to start a home drapery business, August 7, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Start a Home-Based Interior Design Business, 3rd (Home-Based Business Series) (Paperback)

i definitely agree with the other comment that it's all about window coverings. interior design is not all about window treatments and trying to sell products to your clients. interior design is about designing the homes of your clients. definitely a misleading book.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book gave me the courage!, August 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Start a Home Based Interior Design Business (Paperback)

This is exactly the book I've been looking for. I completed my degree, but still felt
that I needed some "real world" guidance. This book did that. The author explained
the how to things that I couldn't figure out, like where to find the business, how to
estimate jobs, where to buy the stuff, etc. I love this book!