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Provided here are practical guidelines on how to value the cost of designing commercial or residential interiors. From the designer's creative input to the pricing of decorating products and procedures, this guide allows interior designers to establish prices and budgets that satisfy their clients and make their business profitable. Interviews with experienced interior designers, case studies, and sidebars of projects highlight professional pitfalls and how to master them.
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Great book for pricing - not just for interior decorators..........2006-05-12
This is a phenominal book for pricing and structure in any business. As an independent consultant one of the most difficult things when starting out is finding the right pricing structure. This book covers that as well as many suggestions on how to effectively organize and run a business. I have already recommended this book to my husband who is in Home Improvement and a friend who has a curtain business. I think it is so well written that it could be of value to many types of businesses small and large.
Good Advice from Someone who's Been There Before.......2005-08-08
One of the hardest things to learn about interior design, or any other service industry is that the only thing you have to sell is your time. To do this in a profitable manner, you need two sets of skills.
The first is the one you know about. You've got to find customers, you've got to do the job they want done and you've go to make them happy. This is probably the job you've trained yourself to do through experience, through training, and through the basic aptitude that you had to get into that business in the first place.
The second job is harder. You've got to realize that you are a business manager. You need accounting (to keep your business partner the IRS happy). You need to develop a busines plan, budgeting, etc. You need to know how to prepare and send out bills and how to handle the money when it comes in. And the most critical of all, telling the customer what your effort is going to cost him.
In this book Mr. Williams gives an excellent introduction on how to do these critical things. He also includes enough war stories from his past to give you the understanding of how he learned these things.
I really enjoyed his page one story of starting his own company: sold his car so as to eliminate the payments, crammed his office into his bedroom, paid off all credit cards, in general reduced his expenses to a minimum. When I started I did almost exactly the same: I had a very tiny kind of dumpy house in not too good a neighborhood - but no payments. I had an ancient vehicle - but no payments. Like with him, I was profitable the first month, but you had best not bet on it.
Mr. Williams has been there, done that, walked the walk. His book makes excellent sense.
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Everything you need to know about the practice and business of interior design -- from McGraw-Hill and Interior Design magazine
Let today's most admired design professionals share with you their priceless insights, step-by-step guidelines, and real-life examples drawn from their own highly successful practices.
Interior Design Handbook of Professional Practice packs fresh new ways of thinking and profitable ways of working -- quality information you expect when experts join forces! Comprehensive, hands-on details show you how to problem-solve the design needs of clients¿streamline every stage of your practice, from finding and winning clients to project build-out¿and master the most efficient negotiation, bidding, contract, and documentation techniques. Achieve professional excellence and profitability with this authoritative resource as you learn how to act on the implications of the profound changes occurring in the design industry today with tips from designers who are at the top of their game.
An outstanding preparation tool for the NCIDQ national licensing exam
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This complete guide explains everything you need to know about the practice and business of interior design--commercial, retail, residential, healthcare, hospitality, and facility management.
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Strategic Reads for the Year Ahead.......2002-02-07
Interior Design Handbook of Professional Practice. Edited by Cindy Coleman; Published by McGraw-Hill and Interior Design Magazine. This book presents sensible new information and is indispensable to the libraries of all design firms. You'll especially enjoy the chapters on "Growing A Profession," Intelligent Interiors" and "Information Technology." This is more than a reference book-it's an inspriation.
The Best and the Brightest on Interior Design!.......2001-10-25
Interior Design Magazine and McGraw Hill Publishing teamed up to produce an essential handbook for the interior design profession. For the first time there is a handbook that covers essential issues from sustainability to legal issues, team dynamics to strategic and global practices. This is not just a book for the interior design professional library, but one for students and for practitioners of related fields--including architecture, business, and project management. Editor-in-Chief Cindy Coleman is a well-regarded journalist and designer who has assembled a remarkable group of top-notch minds--the best and the brightest in the evolving field of interior design who have contributed to a handsome book. This handbook will be a "must-have" for all practioners. Kudos to Interior Design magazine for developing this authoritative volume. Includes a list of contributors with biographies that are stellar!
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An essential guide to starting and managing an interior design business, this book offers updated resource listings and additional information on computers, service, photography, and education. Hundreds of proven techniques are offered on how to build a design business and run it profitably and effectively.
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The interior design handbook.......2001-12-30
Clear, well written, with astute comments about the business side of this interesting profession. This lady knows what she is talking about, having been in this area of consulting for many years. You can tell her expertise easily by reading this book! A must for all interior designers.
excellent resource.......2001-12-20
Great ideas for any design firm, as well as practical methods
for someone wanting to start out on their own.
The Interior Design Business Handbook.......2000-05-19
An excellent guide book for newly established interior design company.
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Drama and Negativity.......2007-01-10
I was hoping for a really good guide to the business side of Interior Design from an expert. This book was reccomended to me by another professional in the business as the "bible" of the business. I was hoping for insights for a well-run, prosperous, effecient and positive business. I was sorely disappointed. This book is negative, preachy, outdated, and angry. Written in a most uninspired manner and goes so far as to say things like, if you want your own business you better be prepared to give up bridge, tennis, dinner with your family... blah, blah, blah, or quite frankly your contract is to protect you, NOT your client. Hmmm, really, last I checked it is supposed to do both. Maybe it just does not represent the spirit in which I choose to do business. I was hoping for advise from someone who is better at this than I am, someone who may have streamlined the process and knows good time management. All the drama and negativity pulls your energy from whatever good information is present. I can see the wagging index finger of the writer as I read, no thank you.
Stella
The best source of information I have come across!.......1997-07-05
Just by thumbing through this book at the store the other day I could tell it was the book for me! I highly recommend this publication to anyone who needs to learn the in's-n-out's of this business. I learned so much already...I can't wait to finish it
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one of the best I've found.......2005-08-13
I have been making jewlery as a hobby for 20 years. This book was inspiring, offering a broad spectrum of earring types with excellent pictures and instructions for each. I rate it highly for the variety of styles & clarity of instructions - good for beginner or a veteran!
Something for everyone.......2002-09-02
As the author states: this is a book for "earring addicts". A little prior knowledge on how to use jewelry tools for forming and attaching loops to the earring wires may be necessary because these basic skills aren't well-explained. The instructions rely mostly on step-by-step explanations, and a photo of the finished piece, rather than diagrams.
I like this book because I have gotten lots of good ideas from it. In particular I like the section showing several designs for coiled wire and bead earrings. I'm also interested in some made with seed beads woven together in interesting designs, including a dangling birdhouse. Not having prior experience with weaving beads, the instructions may be a little difficult to follow, but I still am willing to try. Fortunately, these woven designs do have diagrams.
There are instructions for making earrings from all kinds of materials, including polymer clay, fused fabric that has a mosaic look, sheet metal formed into interesting shapes, gourds, and many other materials. Some of these materials require tools beyond traditional jewelry tools to work with, such as a jigsaw, metal file, and sewing machine. Although I think a few of the designs have a tacky out-dated look, the majority look quite boutiquish. For crafty earring lovers, there should be at least a few pieces here to inspire.
Skip It.......2002-06-02
There's nothing in this book (in terms of technique) that can't be found elsewhere, and the examples are singularly uninspired.
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Celebrity: The Photographs of Terry O'Neill
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In this book we find Tom Cruise, Brigitte Bardot, Elton John, Mick Jagger, Joan Collins, Michael Caine, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery and others who have superseded the fads of reputation and proven their celebrity longevity. The range of Terry O'Neill's celebrity portraits reaches from Audrey Hepburn to Naomi Campbell, from Frank Sinatra to Kate Moss, in a celebration of true celebrity. A.A. Gill's witty and insightful introduction to the book analyzes what it is that allows these people to transcend their contemparies in the pantheon of the renowned; what makes some of them true celebrities, whilst others are merely and briefly famous.
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Beautiful, interesting, really great.......2004-02-09
This is a book of beautiful photography featuring a wide range of really great celebrities. The photographs run from Queen Elizabeth II to Joan Rivers. You have the Beatles, Rod Stewart, Peter Sellers, supermodels of yesterday and today, Woody and Mia, Dame Edna, and even the great Diva herself, Miss Faye Dunaway. Terry O'Neill has photographed all the greats of the second half of the 20th century, and we find them here. Terry O'Neill tells a brief history behind some of the select photographs. Those are really interesting. Gill does the introduction. This is a beautiful book if you are interested in celebrity photography.
The Gill introduction is too long and too overdone. It also has some pretty glaring mistakes. William Holden was floating in the pool at the beginning of Sunset Boulevard, not Joseph Cotten. When Gill is waxing on about what is means to be a celebrity for pages and pages, this is a really bad mistake. O'Neill messes up a few dates. The famous photograph of Faye Dunaway was Spring of 1977, not 1976. It was the night after her Oscar win, and O'Neill was married to her for several years after that, you'd think that would be an easy date to remember. It is one of his most famous photographs.
But this book is not about the introduction or exact dates, it is about the photographs. Each one is truly a pleasure to look at and study. The only "complaint" I have about this fabulous book is that it could have been physically larger. Some of the photographs spill across the spine because they are too large for one page. It's minor, but it made a few of the photographs slightly less enjoyable to look at. All in all, this is an A+ book and for a book of this nature, it is extremely low priced. Buy at once!
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