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Biweekly business tips for residential interior designers who want better-fit clients, smoother projects, and more business strategy with less business stress. 💛
Happy Thursday interior designers and small business owners! Do you think quartz is better than marble? A recent contributor to Happy Starts at Home is a DIYer who decided she's firmly Team Quartz after installing marble in her own home and learning firsthand that: Even when you're careful with it, marble etches. 😩 (She did not consider that a 'feature.' 😑) Of course, hiring an interior designer wouldn't necessarily have changed that outcome. Plenty of designers adore marble, understand that...
Hi interior designers and happy home pros! I don’t normally email on Wednesdays, but... I have something to share! I’m officially opening Happy Starts at Home to article submissions. 🎉 Do you like to write? Do you have practical expertise, experience, or a perspective homeowners could benefit from? If so, keep reading... (If not, share this with your writing friends! 🤗 ) It's time for the next chapter of Happy Starts at Home: transforming it from my former interior design business site into a...
Happy Thursday, interior designers and small business owners! First, a special welcome to the 16 (!!) new readers who joined us yesterday. 😀 You’ve landed right in the middle of a conversation about figuring out what kind of design business you actually want to run. Read about how my design-only firm reached $425K in revenue without relying on procurement. Catch up here → On Tuesday, I asked y'all whether you would have wanted my design-only, modest-budget, one-room-at-a-time clients, and a...