Rearrange It How To Grow a Six Figure Interior Redesign and Redecorating Business OR Secrets of Interior Redesigners on How Anyone Can Start a Home Based Business Decorating for Others
September 15, 2009 by sgtwak
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HOW YOU CAN BECOME A HIGHLY PAID REDESIGNER. Do you go crazy in other people’s homes because everything is in the wrong place? Would you like to turn that craziness into cash? Now you can make outstanding profits arranging furniture and accessories for others! Interior Redesign is the creative use of professional arranging techniques to transform a client’s home from ordinary into extraordinary in a matter of hours by moving and arranging the furniture and accessories the client already owns. It is one of the easiest and most rewarding businesses in the design field today. Now Barbara Jennings, the West Coast pioneer of interior redesign, offers readers a way to improve, enhance, enrich and dramatically grow their income with their own home based redesign business. No experience necessary – no degree necessary.
As director of the Academy of Staging and Redesign (hosted at Decorate-Redecorate.Com), Jennings explains the best, easiest and most profitable ways to start, grow, manage and sustain a highly successful redecorating business. She brings 38 years of experience in home business development together with decades of interior design expertise in this large format, practical manual that reveals in simple terms the how-to strategies of top professional re-designers. She teaches readers exactly what to say and do on their half day or full day projects. A very simple, low risk business to learn, readers will discover how to transform a home in a matter of hours using just what is there, then making suggestions as to what additional products and services the homeowner could acquire, if needed. The manual provides both business setup and superb marketing training, as well as design training, and the author suggests plenty of additional training and visual aids that could be acquired which will be helpful to readers as they build their business and market their services to consumers. Readers will learn to integrate, advance and deploy workable, sustainable methods that lead to confidence, empowerment and strong profits, even in a tough economy.
Written in a no-nonsense, yet personable style, Rearrange It! teaches readers who want a thriving interior redesign business:
- how to prepare themselves professionally
- how to get clients and referrals
- how to conduct consultations the right way
- how to set up their business and protect themselves legally
- how to hang art and pictures properly
- how to market and promote their services in a variety of ways
- how to get free publicity for their business
- how to reach potential clients and qualify them
- how to assess a room quickly and know how to solve the problems
- 31 examples of arrangement techniques used by professionals (including the most popular furniture arrangement configurations, one of which should solve even the most complicated room)
- 20 questions to ask homeowners before starting a redesign consult
- practical do’s and don’ts
- questions and answers
- important legalities and set up guidance
- how to develop a business plan
- the proper business etiquette
- an extensive furniture and accessory moving tips segment
- how to charge for services
- how to get referrals and testimonials
- how to get other tools and resources
- and how to get free ongoing training
Barbara Jennings is director of the ACADEMY OF STAGING AND REDESIGN at Decorate-Redecorate.Com. She has written 13 popular books on home staging and redesign and trained over 10,000 globally through her certification courses and business guides.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Exceptional!!!!
I brought this book as a recommendation from a staging course I took online. I must admit it was a two-fold blessing. The first one is, I learned more from this book then my whole course I spent alot of money on. The second thing is, I found someone who really knows what she is doing, and is teaching from her own experiences not someone elses.
5 Stars Loved this book
I found this book to be extremely informative and helpful. The author clearly loves the business of redesign and is devoted to helping others achieve their goals and dreams. Her style is personable, direct and practical. I appreciate the links to other resources, including her own, as I know one can never have enough ways to promote one’s business and it’s foolhardy to reinvent the wheel. Anyone seriously wanting to make their business as profitable as possible should greatly appreciate access to all the resources they can get. I have purchased other books she has written and recommend all of them very highly.
3 Stars alot of advertising
Has fundamental ideas and suggestions for implementation, however I thought this book was a giant advertisement for the author’s other services and books. I probably would not consider another of Ms. Jennings
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5 Stars Any library strong in either interior decoration or business titles simply must have this
Any library strong in either interior decoration or business titles simply must have REARRANGE IT! The author’s been professionally rearranging homes in California since 1986: her home-based designer tips lend perfectly to those who would operate and foster home-based work while her case studies of clients, tips on what to charge and how to rearrange, assessments of what homeowners need most, and how to turn a chaotic home feel into a design masterpiece makes for clear, specific suggestions. While those selling homes and real estate agents will find this of key interest, so will both those seeking to make a business of home arranging and homeowners just seeking a more logical arrangement, making for a wide-ranging recommendation suitable for any public lending library.
5 Stars A bit much for the ‘layperson’
I am not a designer nor will I ever have a design business; however, I am doing some home remodeling and thought that this book might give me ideas on how to “redesign” some rooms using the furniture I have. After reading through the book, I realized that it’s geared more towards the design professional — so I gave it to my sister-in-law, who is in the home design business, and she was absolutely thrilled. She was so excited, that she’s now helping me “redesign” my rooms for free … so the book was well worth the price I paid 
