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The Interior Design Business Spotlight is an interior design business blog with accurate, thorough, unbiased (unsponsored) and up-to-date information that you can trust which is relevant worldwide. It is for interior designers who work for themselves, are starting an interior design business, are just starting in the industry, or want to launch their design careers.

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Our Interior Design Business Spotlights focus on interior design business problems, the difficult things that interior design schools don’t teach and the common problems that pop up in those first few years of working solo. We talk about the issues that come with change or growth and provide reliable resources you can trust at a time when you can feel isolated and alone. We are here to shine the light on and give you the answers to those pressing questions.

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How To Get Started With SketchUp Free For Interior Design

How To Get Started With SketchUp Free For Interior Design

I still remember the first time I tried to learn SketchUp. Fresh out of architecture school and working at a trendy design office in Sydney, Australia ...

Interior Designer's Guide To Samples

Interior Designer’s Guide To Samples

Interior design samples are essential for visualising how different materials, colours, and textures will look in a space before making final design decisions ...

Universal Design | A Guide For Interior Designers & Architects

Universal Design | A Guide For Interior Designers & Architects

If you’ve ever heard the saying that a significant proportion of the world’s population will, at some stage in their life, experience some form of disability ...

Mistakes To Avoid With Your First Interior Design Clients

Mistakes To Avoid With Your First Interior Design Clients

I've been an architect and interior designer for over twenty wonderful and rewarding years, yet the lessons from my very first interior design projects remain ...

Interior Design Client Revisions

Interior Design Client Revisions

When a client asks for a revision on a project, they are not the enemy! There is this huge misconception in the interior design and architecture industries ...

Interior Design Industry Trends For 2025 | What’s Next For Designers

Interior Design Industry Trends For 2025 | What’s Next For Designers?

The interior design industry is constantly changing and evolving which is why staying up to date with interior design industry trends is imperative ...

The Reality Of Starting An Interior Design Career | Challenges You Need to Know

The Reality Of Starting An Interior Design Career | Challenges You Need to Know

Today, I wanted to share some interior design tips for beginner designers and offer practical advice to help you with the challenges that come with launching ...

Why Can’t I Call Myself An Interior Designer? Interior Design Title Act Explained!

Why Can’t I Call Myself An Interior Designer? Interior Design Title Act Explained!

If you’ve ever been told that you can’t call yourself an interior designer, it’s likely because of a title act which is a legal regulation that can be pretty ...

What To Do When You Lose A Client To A Cheaper Designer

What To Do When You Lose A Client To A Cheaper Designer

If you have ever lost a client to a cheaper designer, it can feel like total rejection. It can bring up feelings of resentment and judgment, and when you lose…

AI For Interior Design

AI For Interior Design

I have been using AI for interior design and architecture as well as for my business for quite some time now, but since writing my AI for interior design course…

What To Look For In An Interior Design Mentor

What To Look For In An Interior Design Mentor?

When I was starting my interior design business, there was no such thing as an interior design mentor! I started mentoring career changers and start-ups in ...

Why Interior Designers Don't Need Discovery Calls

Why Interior Designers Don’t Need Discovery Calls

As an experienced interior designer and business coach who has successfully helped hundreds of designers over the years, I've used discovery calls extensively ...

The Interior Design Questionnaire | Complete Guide

The Interior Design Questionnaire | Complete Guide

You’ve heard about the illusive interior design questionnaire, but what is it, how do you use it, and why don’t interior design schools teach you about it?

Interior Design Project Management Explained

Interior Design Project Management Explained

Interior design project management is a term that often leads to confusion in the interior design industry. Many interior designers mistakenly believe they ...

What's The Difference Between An Interior Architect And An Interior Designer?

What’s The Difference Between An Interior Architect And An Interior Designer?

I’ve meant to write this post about the difference between an interior architect and an interior designer for a long time. However, I was afraid to write it ...

Why 100K Is A Bad Income Goal For Your Interior Design Business

Why 100K Is A Bad Income Goal For Your Interior Design Business

You’ve seen those enticing clickbait reels and adverts scattered across social media promising to help you hit the £100K mark in your interior design business ...

Get Started As An Interior Designer By Designing Your Own Home

Get Started As An Interior Designer By Designing Your Own Home

We're constantly told that the best way to get started as an interior designer is to do an interior design course, then get work experience or shadow a designer ...

10 Ways Interior Design Can Make A Home More Energy Efficient

10 Ways Interior Design Can Make A Home More Energy Efficient

We all know that an architect can help make a home more energy efficient, but can an interior designer make an impact, too? An architect, technician or builder ...

3 Mistakes You're Making When Pricing Interior Design Services

3 Mistakes You Are Making When Pricing Interior Design Services

Pricing interior design services is a topic that comes up with architects and interior designers regularly. It can feel like a complex topic, but it doesn't ...

Marketing Interior Design So Your Clients Know What You Do

Marketing Interior Design So Your Clients Know What You Do

We proudly sprawl the words "interior designer" on our social media, business card and website, and we feel like we're marketing our interior design services ...

How To Create An Interior Design Niche

How To Create An Interior Design Niche

You might have heard the saying, "If you're marketing to everyone, you're marketing to no one", so you've started researching how to create an interior design niche ...

5 Step Process To Manage Your Day When You Work For Yourself As An Interior Designer | Interior Designer's Business School - idbs

How To Manage Your Day When You Work For Yourself As An Interior Designer

You’ve decided to work for yourself as an interior designer, and it’s your first day in your new “office”. You sit down, and you’re excited. You’ve got your ...

These Types Of Interior Designers Are Dangerous

These Types Of Interior Designers Are Dangerous

It’s time to share this post about dangerous types of interior designers because interior design as a profession is starting to head into a direction that ...

Profitable Interior Design Business

The Real Reason You Can’t Run A Profitable Interior Design Business

Most designers think that to run a profitable interior design business, they need to take on large projects for luxury clients or conceal their fees ...

How To Price Interior Design Services (In 5 Steps) - Interior Designers Business School - Online Interior Design School

How To Price Interior Design Services (In 5 Steps)

Today's post will cover how to price interior design services and projects in five easy steps. This is a topic close to my heart, mainly because it blows my ...

5 Things You Can Do to Make Your Interior Design Business More Sustainable

5 Things You Can Do to Make Your Interior Design Business More Sustainable

Interior design can be wasteful, and I’m always thinking of ways to make your interior design business more sustainable. Think about the number of samples we ...

Dealing With Interior Design Client Problems - Interior Designers Business School

Dealing With Interior Design Client Problems

You’re working on a project, and you start to have interior design client problems, whether managing client expectations, late payments, or simply helping ...

Interior Design Fee Structures | Complete Guide - Interior Designer’s Business School

Interior Design Fee Structures | Complete Guide

If you are starting your interior design business, you are no doubt researching interior design fee structures and comparing the ways that you can price ...

Floor Planning Design With Dimensions And Examples - Interior Designer’s Business School

Floor Planning Design With Dimensions And Examples

You’ve started designing a room or house, and you’re stuck at the floor planning design stage, asking yourself, “what’s the right distance between the sofa ...

10 Reasons To Start An Interior Design Business Nowp - Interior Designer’s Business School

10 Reasons To Start An Interior Design Business Now

If you spend your day dreaming about interior design, and it's all you can think of, now is the time to start an interior design business. Why? There has been…

How To Hold Interior Design Meetings | Step By Step - Interior Designer’s Business School

How To Hold Interior Design Meetings | Step By Step

Today we're looking at how to conduct your interior design meetings so that you look and feel professional in front of your clients and know exactly what to say ...

How To Provide Interior E-Design Service - Interior Designer’s Business School

How To Provide Interior E-Design Service

Today I wanted to cover the dos and don’ts of providing E-design or online interior design services. Pre-pandemic, interior designers would ask me, should I ...

What’s The Best Software For Interior Designers To Learn? - Interior Designer’s Business School

What’s The Best Software For Interior Designers To Learn?

If you're researching how to become an interior designer and asking yourself what's the best software for interior designers to learn, you're probably already ...

How To Use Paid Advertising To Get Interior Design Clients In 5 Steps - Interior Designer’s Business School

How To Use Paid Advertising To Get Interior Design Clients In 5 Steps

In this post I’m going to focus on whether using paid advertising such as Facebook, Google or Magazines to attract interior design clients is suitable for you

Strategies To Start Or Grow Your Interior Design Business | Part 1 - Interior Designer’s Business School

Strategies To Start Or Grow Your Interior Design Business

The best strategies to start or grow your interior design business in today’s world require more than simply creating a marketing plan designed for another ...

How To Build An Interior Design Or Architecture Portfolio (When You’ve Never Had A Client) - Interior Designer’s Business School

How To Build An Interior Design Or Architecture Portfolio (When You’ve Never Had A Client)

I think I hadn’t covered this topic earlier because, for a long time, I used to get quite upset when someone asked me this question! At first, I genuinely ...

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3 Myths About Becoming An Interior Designer

When I told my family that I wanted to study architecture, they said it would be too difficult and that I should consider something easier. They were ...

What’s The Best Course To Do To Become An Interior Designer? - Interior Designer’s Business School

What’s The Best Course To Do To Become An Interior Designer?

My graduates, colleagues and I get asked daily which course is the best course to do if you want to become an interior designer, and honestly, to be ...

How Do You Get Interior Design Clients Without A Portfolio?

How Do You Get Interior Design Clients Without A Portfolio?

This is one of my favourite topics! How do you get interior design clients without a portfolio? I built my own business and helped hundreds of interior ...

How To Find Hotel Clients As A Designer - Interior Designer’s Business School

How To Find Hotel Clients As A Designer

It's important to decide what type of work you would want to do in the hotel industry to get an understanding of the types of projects you might be hired…

How To See Colour Like An Expert | The Maria Killam Way - Interior Designer’s Business School

How To See Colour Like An Expert | The Maria Killam Way

Having worked with some fantastic designers from around the world and also now undertaken hundreds of projects both online and real life, I was pretty ...

What You Need To Fuel Your Creativity & Stay Motivated - Interior Designer’s Business School

What You Need To Fuel Your Creativity & Stay Motivated

I used to believe that creativity was endless. When my tutors at university would tell me that I had too many ideas and that I should save them for ...

3 Things That Your Website Needs In Today's World - Interior Designer’s Business School

3 Things That Your Website Needs In Today’s World

These days you don't exist if you don't have an online or social media presence, so having a website in today's world, isn't a luxury, it's a necessity ...

How To Achieve Your Goals | France Poissy - Interior Designer’s Business School

How To Achieve Your Goals

I speak to people all the time (predominantly women), who give me millions of reasons as to why they haven’t been able to achieve their goals. Usually ...

A Few Facts About Villa Savoye | 1931 | Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret | France Poissy - Interior Designer’s Business School

A Few Facts About Villa Savoye | 1931 | Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret | France Poissy

Have you ever walked into a space and just felt so inspired that it made you almost rethink everything in your life? That’s how I felt walking into Villa Savoye...

How To Start An Interior Design Business - 5 Things You Need To Guarantee Success - Interior Designer’s Business School

How To Start An Interior Design Business | 5 Things You Need To Guarantee Success

At the beginning, when I wanted to start an interior design business, I thought that I would never get clients without a portfolio or large body of ...

What To Take To An Interior Design Consultation - Interior Designer’s Business School

What To Take To An Interior Design Consultation

There is a lot of confusion in the industry in regards to the all-important, interior design consultation. I hear a lot of confused and misguided ...

Becoming an interior designer - should I get a job or work for myself? - Interior Designer’s Business School

Becoming An Interior Designer – Should I Get A Job Or Work For Myself?

If you are just starting out in interior design or considering becoming an interior designer, you have probably been told that that the only way to get ...

3 Things You Won’t Learn In Interior Design Schools - Interior Designer’s Business School

3 Things You Won’t Learn In Interior Design Schools

The first thing that all aspiring interior designer’s do when they think about taking up interior design as a career is to look at courses interior ...

How To Become An Interior Designer - Interior Designer’s Business School

How To Become An Interior Designer

This is the golden question! Where do I start, what do I do to become an interior designer? As easy as this question sounds, the answer is not so...

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How To Start An Interior Design Business Without A Degree

One of the biggest myths in the interior design world is that you need a degree to get into interior design. There are instances where you will ...

What Do Interior Designers Really Do? - Interior Designer’s Business School

What Do Interior Designers Really Do?

Interior design is an integral part of many types of projects, but I often get asked what do interior designers really do? Isn’t it obvious you ask? Not ...

Interior Designer, Interior Stylist, Interior Decorator, Interior Architect. What’s the difference? - Interior Designer’s Business School

Interior Designer, Interior Stylist, Interior Decorator, Interior Architect. What’s the difference?

Are you an interior designer? Guess what? The majority of people have no idea what it is what you do. Of course, they get the gist of it, ...

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