Short-Term Disability Insurance for Solo Interior Designers: What You Need to Know
Short-term disability insurance
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Operations and Project Management
Interior Design Procurement Fees: Hourly Rate vs Markup Explained
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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Interior Design Contracts and Insurance: What to Include and Protect
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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Interior Design Team Recognition: How to Handle Bios, Tags, and Credit
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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Custom Window Treatments: How to Find a Drapery and Blinds Vendor You Can Trust
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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Architects With In-House Designers: Collaboration or Competition?
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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Performance Fabrics and Chemicals: What Interior Designers Should Ask Before Specifying
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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Subcontractor Liability for Interior Designers: Things You Need to Know to Protect Yourself
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.
How to Pivot to Commercial Interior Design While You’re Still in School
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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How Interior Designers Estimate Project Timelines: Phases, Buffers, and What You Can’t Control
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