Hourly for design, but what about procurement? This guide gives interior designers a practical framework for rates, markup, and how to explain it clearly to clients.
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Unsure how to handle liability insurance in your design contract? Get the clause language, sharing rules, and client scripts to protect your firm without overcomplicating it.
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Should you tag your design team on Instagram? This guide covers team bios, social tagging modes, and a 15-minute policy to protect credit, privacy, and reach.
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Use this practical framework to choose custom drapery and blinds vendors by project scope, with five key questions, scripts, and real recommendations from IDC.
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Architect has an in-house interior designer? Use this referral framework, 5 questions, and scripts to protect your client, your scope, and your role on the project.
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Not all performance fabrics are created equal. Use this designer checklist of questions, certifications, and client scripts to specify smarter and protect your clients.
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When a subcontractor fails and you managed him through your company without a general contractor’s license, the liability may land on you. Here is how to protect your business, your contracts, and your final invoice.
You’re gaining experience at a residential firm, but commercial interior design is where you want to go. Here’s how to make strategic moves before you graduate. You land a solid internship at a residential design firm. The work is real, the exposure is good, and you’re learning. But somewhere around week three, you’re walking through
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Estimating a project timeline is one of the most honest things you can do for a client relationship. Here’s how working designers build numbers that hold up. A client asks: “So how long is this going to take?” You’re early in the process. You don’t have a full scope yet, lead times are unpredictable, and
To-The-Trade Episode Summary 25 Years in the Trade, and One Clear Lesson Ann Feldstein has spent more than 25 years in the interior design industry. She started at Kravet, Inc. in 2000, spent 15 years there rising to vice president, and in 2015 launched Moxie Marketing, a firm built on the idea that women in
