The Real Numbers for Starting an Interior Design Business With One Paid Consultation
The launch position is a single paid residential consultation — a 60 to 90 minute meeting plus a written action list — sold before you buy software, inventory, or a showroom. This plan sets out a three-tier offer ladder from consultation to fixed-scope room plan to procurement-and-coordination work, and the written boundaries that keep you out of licensed architecture, engineering, and construction territory.
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Built From Real Numbers
Includes a worked competitor example: a solo operator who found local designers only offering full-home renovation projects builds a fixed-fee Move-In Room Plan instead, tests it with 15 conversations, and records objections rather than explaining them away.
Covers the exact language for referring out regulated work, the money controls that separate operating funds, tax reserve, and client purchase funds, and the one metric to track before spending on inventory, staff, or a showroom: paid consultations booked per month.
What's Inside
- Consultation Pricing Calculator — interior-design worksheet
- Competitor & Substitute Scan — local-market worksheet
- Client Scope & Closeout Checklist — project-control tool
- 13-Week Cash Forecast — interior-design cash control
- Three-tier offer ladder: consultation, room plan, coordination
- Written-agreement scope, deposit, and revision-limit language
- 90-day launch plan built around paid consultations booked
