If you make your living as an interior designer or decorator the economy must be hurting your business. When the economy is slow, many people who might otherwise hire an interior designer or decorator are forced to spend a “non-essential service to the bottom of their priority list. If you have not felt the hint, however, as a key to your company might have a drastic nose-dive during an economic recession. Nobody really needs the services of interior design, especially in no-time.
There’s also the fact that so many of his days spent on the business side of design, negotiation with contractors, waiting to get a delivery, billing, collection of quotes, etc.. This is all the time that do not generate revenue directly for design or interior decorating business, and when customer bills are already scarce, this can hurt your financial situation.
Perhaps you are one of the many trained interior decorators who have ended up working in retail for a 100% commission. If the economy worsens and you are working solely on commission, in case you do not leave? Even in good times, if you work for 100% commission and can be your own boss and be free to market to new customers to you instead of being tied to a store.
When I decided to take charge of my life and do something to allow me to take advantage of my creativity, I considered a career in interior design. I struggled with a number of times that option through a period of 20 years when I was dissatisfied with my job. Researched, and even met with many interior design schools in my “former life”, but for some reason I never took the step to register. I decided with my BA, MBA and a couple of decades of experience in the business, being in a classroom for two to four years with kids 20 years my junior was not something I wanted to do.
No matter the tuition and the enormous loss of income while you are a student. So who knows how many years of experience working as a designer or decorator would be required after graduation to start actually making money. I wanted to unleash my creativity and love of decoration, but they definitely need to start earning money as soon as possible. So, I started my own home staging business.
As soon as started my company, the money coming in. In my second year as a home stage I was doing up to $ 10,000 per month. Compare that to the median annual salary of $ 36,150 per year for an interior designer according to Salary.com this year. I am very happy to trust my instincts!
If you’re an interior designer or decorator, and you are not making enough money, consider adding Home Staging to your service package or switch to a more profitable career as a Home Stage complete.
Here are some ways a home staging business could be more profitable than an interior design firm:
• In stage one household has the opportunity to work with different types of people that I would as an interior designer. Generally, only very high income people hire interior designers, which limits their target market. Home stagers work mostly with clients in the middle to upper income level that gives a much higher percentage of the population to the market, and increases the number of projects available for you to work.
• Home stagers enjoy a higher volume of projects of interior designers because each one is so short in nature. An interior design project could take months to complete (especially when you factor in waiting time for doing upholstery or furniture delivered), but the average starting staging project takes only a few hours or days. There is no way I could have decorated hundreds of homes in a couple of years as a new interior designer, the way I did a new home stage. With these projects quickly, a household is able to complete stage (and paid) a significantly larger number of projects per year, an interior designer who often has clients waiting for work for reasons beyond its control.
• When the economy is slow, people will eliminate non-essential. Interior design or decoration is not really high on the list of essential elements “especially when choices have to be about what to give up, and there is no real deadline to renovate or redecorate a room. In uncertain times, interior design moves down the list of priorities, while home staging move up. No matter how slow or how the economy is the housing market has declined, there will always be people who absolutely have to sell and move on a certain date. Divorce, job relocation, job loss, mounting debts, a death in the family or a birth often people put their house on the market if not the best time to sell. When a homeowner is desperate to sell your home, a home is often involved from that stage the seller is to make a handsome profit from their services. When people have less time, less money or less equity in their home, they need a home so they can get work experience as possible from the sale of your home! As a home stage, their creativity and talent will serve him well to decorate in slow economic times and slow real estate markets.
I especially love the amount of creative freedom as a stage house. Because my clients know that I’m decorating your home to sell and not to live in them, I can execute my creative vision without interference or taking into account their tastes. I can not imagine wasting hours sitting with a client who can not decide what color they want for your bathroom, or to pick up the canvas curtains. My clients do not care what I choose, if your house sells faster because of it. Besides, my organization is highly profitable business that every entrepreneur desires.
If your business is interior design is not as good as you expect, it’s not too late to make a change towards a more fulfilling creative career is also more profitable. Make a study in the house on stage. It is a race that is virtually “recession-proof.”
