Provides 750 decorating ideas from design professionals, covering style, color and pattern, architectural detail, lighting, comfort, fixtures, furnishings, art, storage, outdoor rooms, and other topics, and includes over four hundred color photographs.

This hands-on workbook demystifies the math involved in the interior design field and provides practical estimating techniques for aspiring and professional interior designers.

Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer contains all the necessary tools and strategies to successfully launch and grow a professional design business in the competitive world of interior design. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience, this book includes case studies, and personal anecdotes that help teach you how to: • Choose a design field • Obtain and keep clients • Garner referrals • Market and position your business • Bid competitively on projects • Manage sales • Organize a budget • Manage start-up costs and cash flow • Promote your business • Branch out into product and architectural design • Design within a retail environment • Set pricing guidelines • Sell to your target demographic • Set up your office Readers will find a history of the business side of interior design as well as various career tracks available to today’s budding entrepreneur. This updated second edition also examines the current state of the interior design industry, and what's in store for the future of firms. Any early career interior designer or student looking for practical advice on the ins and outs of running a design firm will need this one-stop guide. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

In this book, you will learn the innovative habits that make these designers (Kelly Wearstler, Thomas Jayne, Charles Spada, Tanya Hudson, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Heather Faulding, John Chrestia, David ling, CLS Architetti Studio, Celia Comenech, Robert Cole & Sophie Prevost, and Axel Verhoustraeten) the best in their field. The author "spent countless hours conducting in-depth interviews with each of these talented luminaries - and organized their most prized secrets in this engaging format, illustrated by beautiful full-color photographs of the designer's work. With this book as your guide, applying these insider secrets to your own living space will be as easy as it is fun." - back cover.

A successful decorator and a productivity expert, Vita Vygovska brought together 10 design industry experts to share their knowledge and expertise on how to market your design business. Fast and easy to read, this book is an in-depth and comprehensive marketing tutorial, teaching all the strategies that designers need to know (and none that they don't) to propel their businesses forward. It is perfect for interior designers, decorators, window treatment professionals, workrooms, stagers, re-designers, organizers and vendors servicing the trade. In the book, you'll learn: [ Why giving away your "secrets' gets you clients [ 3 tested time-saver shortcuts to harness the power of social media [ How to capture your competition's leads without them even knowing it [ The biggest mistakes designers are making online, and how to avoid them [ How to create simple but powerful programs by thinking "outside of the box" [ Time-test and proven appointment generators [ How to create winning relationships with magazine and newspaper writers so that you become their main resource [ The main secret of effective marketing - and it's not what you think! Featuring (in alphabetical order): Steven Bursten ? Margo DeGange ? Kelly Galea ? Melissa Galt Anna Jacoby ? Margi Kyle ? Mary Larsen ? Terri Maurer David Sheperd ? Nika Stewart ? Terri Taylor ? Vita Vygovska