Resources for interior designers
A series of articles giving helpful advice, tips and insights on aspects of interior design. These might be practical systems for organising your product library, advice on marketing and selling your interior design services or technical guides on materials.
If you are a supplier or manufacturer of products and have some advice to share with interior designers then contact us on [email protected] as we will publish your article on this blog.
Profitability in Architecture and Interior Design practices– it’s a question of time
Cost management essentials–project profit margin What is complicated, requires a lot of data analysis, and damages your entire business if not done properly? It is monitoring profit margin of projects for businesses in architecture and interior design. As projects shed labour hours that are difficult to estimate accurately, the labour cost increases and profit margin disappears. Hence, it becomes imperative to control profit margin per project as it will determine your overall profitability. Understanding comparative profit and loss reports, cost benchmarks and profit-drivers Architecture, interior design and refurbishment companies are either product-heavy or service-heavy. In other words, they can either…
Meet the Next-Generation of Leather Alternatives: Mycelium 101
A look at the break-through fungus-based product and its technology, Mycelium leather, by Nicole Rawling
7 common business mistakes interior designers make and how to fix them
A practical and achievable guide to shaping a more profitable and effective interior design business model.
How to write authoritative and professional articles on interior design and architecture
A guideline setting out the key steps in creating articles on interior design and related subjects. These guidelines can be used by interior designers and architects writing for publication on The Interior Design Showcase however will also be applicable to articles written for publication on any website.
A classification system to organise product literature and samples for use in an interior design product library, filing system or for online bookmarking.
If you have not yet found a good product filing system or you have one with too many or too few categories to be useful then here is a classification system that is both comprehensive and concise. With only 45 product genres it is easy to use and remember for interior designers, library managers and researchers. A separate fabric classification system is also given.
A categorisation of grades of stainless steel and their uses
There are many types of stainless steel and specific uses for each of them. Here is a collation of the different grades with simple explanations of their components and typical applications.