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Let’s admit it. At some point in our interior design career, most of us face the situation where we have an overpowering desire to quit project we are working on. This could be for various reasons, but we have our own interior design business, we do actually have the luxury to fire a client we…
When you start your interior design career, be ready that every now and then people will ask you for free advice. These could be your relatives, friends, neighbors or even random people that find you through the web or recommendations. Nothing can be more frustrating as this: often people would expect you to come to…
When I started my own interior design business one of the hardest things I had to deal with was impostor syndrome – basically a self-created feeling of a fraud. It’s when you doubt your expertise and ask yourself questions like “Do I have enough knowledge?” “Am I good enough at what I am doing?” “Can I…
If you started your own interior design business, one of the things you need to learn is successful delegation. Otherwise you will end up doing some robotic tasks instead of focusing on growing your business and the fun part – design itself. Why is it so difficult to delegate? These are usually the most frequent…
If you are just starting your own interior design business, one of the common mistakes you might make is undercharging for your work. This usually happens for various reasons: Fear to loose potential client and thus quoting lower rate to win the project. Lack of confidence and impostor syndrome (“I am not good enough, professional enough,…
Home working in the UK has risen by 20% over the last decade to a record 1.5 million people, and the trend is continuing apace. If you’ve decided to say goodbye to the daily commute and work from home instead, either as an employee working remotely or to set up your own business, a proper…
If you are professional interior designer you are probably familiar with Houzz – professional directory for construction industry as well as image based search engine. It can be a wonderful tool to grow your interior design business and find new clients but not everyone is using at it full potential. In this post I want…
The profession of the interior designer is incredibly popular today, but for the beginners the path to success can be thorny: the competition is high, getting high-end projects is not easy, negotiating with customers and builders can be challenging. If you are just starting your interior design business, check out the following tips that I hope will be useful…
If you start your own interior design business you will need to think about such an important aspect as accounting. One thing that you should invest in is Bookkeeping services that handle all your accounts so that you can focus on growing your business efficiently. You should not stress yourself because of that as there are…
One of the things that I really enjoy being a self-employed interior designer and entrepreneur is the freedom that I have when it comes to choosing work outfits. No more boring corporate dress codes or disastrous uniforms. I can even stay in my pajamas all day long if I work from home. However, even though designers…
It’s been a while since I wanted to write this post about how to get ready for your first meeting with a client. I remember when I started my own interior design business in Moscow it was one of the most daunting things to do for me. Especially when you don’t have a mentor around to…
We had a chat yesterday with my friend. She is an interior photographer and we talked about another interior photographer that we both know. My friend mentioned something like “She does exactly the same stuff as I do, but makes it look as if she is doing something really, really important”… How many times we have experienced the…