The Interior Design Business Handbook - Hardcover

Knackstedt, Mary V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047128484X ISBN 13: 9780471284840

Publisher: Wiley, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

About the Authors Mary V. Knackstedt, ASID, IFDA, is an acclaimed speaker, a prolific author, and a much-sought consultant on the business of interior design. She is also founder and president of two highly successful design firms. As a consultant, Knackstedt has helped organize many new businesses and developed strategies that have reversed failing businesses. Her own firms, Knackstedt Inc. and Business Design Inc. of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and New York City, have handled hundreds of projects ranging from small offices and residences to institutional complexes with more than a hundred buildings. Knackstedt is a contributing editor and columnist for Interiors & Sources magazine and is the author of two previous books, Interior Design for Profit and Profitable Career Options for Designers. She is the producer of Design Business Monthly, an audio-cassette service on current business practices. Laura J. Haney is a former editor and writer for The Designer, Upholstery Industry, Professional Office Design, and Gifts & Decorative Accessories magazines who develops and edits books on design.

From the Inside Flap

The Interior Design Business Handbook A Complete Guide to Profitability Second Edition Mary V. Knackstedt with Laura J. Haney This revised edition is an essential guide to starting and managing an interior design business, complete with updated resource listings and additional information on the computer, service, photography, and education. All procedures in the book are used in successful design firms throughout the United States. Guidelines are provided on how to deal with accountants, protect your firm against costly litigation, and secure the right insurance coverage. You’re also shown how to pinpoint areas to increase profits, make a turnaround from loss to profit, and replace complex solutions to business problems with simpler, less costly ones. Logically organized and easy to read, the Second Edition features more than fifty different interior-design-specific sample forms and letters, examples of contracts and letters of agreement, and office aids that can be easily adapted to a specific interior design operation. Among the forms provided are a design service outline, existing conditions survey, installation report form, monthly staff work plan, and design staff questionnaire. Socres of real-life scenarios from the author’s thirty years of experience as a designer and business consultant are included, along with countless tips that make even the most complicated operations go smoothly. Interior design is a very demanding business. This book covers the full gamut of situations and problems that face practicing designers today, offering hundreds of practical and imaginative for taking effective control and running a business at maximum profitability. It is an invaluable book that can help you throughout your career as an interior designer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047128484X
• ISBN 13: 9780471284840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352