Thanks for visiting my blog about the business end of the interior design industry.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

How do you charge for your services?

Clients hire designers for their artistic ability, design sense, skills and creative vision – and then the professional and experienced ability to actually deliver all of this in the form of a beautiful and cohesively designed home. Beyond what some people will try to tell you, the COST of a well designed and decorated home design is NOT the client’s primary consideration when interviewing designers. I’m not saying they don’t have budgets – it’s the great decorating results that they are after – within their budgets. Which do you think clients thinks about (or discuss at cocktail parties) after their home’s installation: how much money they saved by hiring a discount decorator – or how much they love their new surroundings that they will live with for the next decade or so?

I will be explaining with this blog over time how I feel Interior Designers and Decorators should be charging for their services and at what price points. But I would love to first get your feedback to 4 multiple choice questions about how (in general terms) you currently charge your clients for the following services so I know how to direct the content of these blog posts:


Please CLICK HERE to take the 4 question Survey. Thanks

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