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Your price is a signal. It's a signal that your Interior Design Brand is a Fit for your ideal client. If you've ever bid on a Dream Project, where you know you sold your services (and yourself) cheap, because you wanted to be the most "affordable" option, because you really wanted the job, but you lost it anyway, that's why. The person on the receiving end wondered, "Is this person new? Do they know what they're doing? Do they not know their value?" Because when you collaborate with somebody on something as big as a home. you want to work with an equal. At least, a client that fits, your dream client, does. When you lower your price you've made it about you instead of them. When you lower your price, the unconscious, unspoken message is that you're more interested in the bare minimum of what you can get, rather than the full experience of what you can give. Even though you haven't said it out loud, they can feel it. Wait, you say, I'm trying to save them money and help them out. Did they ask you to? People who want "the best" also want to work with the best talent and they expect you to charge what you're worth. Do you know how to do that Reader? Whether it’s art, a dining table, a silly little tchotchke or an experience, someone who wants "the best", who is designing their dream, forever home, and who has planned accordingly, doesn't want a bargain. They want treatment that matches the level of their investment. Like attracts like. Ready for a shift Reader? |
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As many of you know, I moved into my first house a few years back. I had owned a couple of loft spaces over the years but I liked the idea of having more outdoor space and our house has almost a half acre of land. “Houses are hungry,” is what my client Sheryl McLean said and she wasn’t lying. From the get go this house wanted my attention. It started with an undisclosed leak by the seller in the primary bath, that forced me into a renovation three weeks into homeownership and living in a new...
I was in Los Angeles last week and ended up having a very design-filled couple of days. I visited the gorgeous studio of my recent, private client Haus of Meeshie: HōM in a historic part of Westchester I had never visited in the almost twenty years I lived in LA. Then I visited my client Jill Romine while she installed her owner's suite and bath at the Pasadena Showcase house. (I can't share pictures but the room has a bed and a feeling, you have to see in person when it's open in April.) I...
Historian Bettany Hughes OBE has said that even though women have always made up 50 per cent of the population, they occupy less than 0.5 per cent of recorded history. I wish I could say that estimate surprised me. Ever been to the Louvre? In the 35K objects on display and across roughly 1400 different artists, only 22 are women. Hughes says that even though women were prominently featured in archaeological records visually and in artifacts, they largely disappear once recorded history begins...