Pricing and Profitability

Are your rates covering today’s costs or building toward tomorrow? How designers think about annual rate increases, margin targets, and pricing for business growth.

If you’ve never calculated your Cost of Doing Business, you may be guessing at your pricing. Here’s how to run the numbers and what to do with them.

A client bought something without you. Here’s how to handle it in the moment, what contract language to add, and how to prevent it from happening again.

Got your first out-of-state design project? Here’s how experienced designers bill for travel time, day rates, per diems, and expenses, with real examples.

What makes a project truly ideal? Interior designers share what scope, client type, and collaboration look like when a project fires on all cylinders.

One option or two? How experienced interior designers decide how many concepts to present on kitchen and bath remodels, and how they bill for it.

Already underwater on a design project? Here’s how experienced designers handle mid-project scope creep, revision overload, and fee renegotiation without losing the client.

Not sure if your interior design profit margins are on track? Here’s what experienced designers actually target for gross and net margin, and how to get there.