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Home Business – Painting Home Interiors

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You can make money by painting home interiors as either a part-time or a full-time home business. This service doesn’t require much training. The main qualifications are attention to certain details and care in protecting floors and furniture. You usually can find instruction booklets at paint stores or the large building products stores (Lowe’s or Home Depot). You can get started with basic painting equipment and a vehicle for transporting them.

How much should you charge for your painting services? That depends on the local economy and the competition. You probably want to charge less than professional painters do, at least at first. However, don’t rely too much on a low fee to get customers. You need to make money sufficient to pay for your time and effort. Besides, customers may regard a low fee as an indication of inferior work. Instead, promote extra features of your home business. This could be rapid service, working on nights or weekends, or discounts on future jobs.

Be sure to take care of any governmental and insurance requirements for your home business. You can find out what is needed by talking to a local accountant and insurance agent, or visiting the appropriate governmental website.

Use the classified advertisements in the local newspaper or on Craigslist.org website to get customers. You should visit the premises before quoting a fee. Measure all the area to be painted. Then you can determine the amount of paint needed. Bring a wide assortment of color chips with you so the customer can choose the colors for various rooms. Ask the customer about any extra services or special needs. Determine if you should bring a helper. If you and the customer come to an agreement, record the details on a standard bid form. These details should include the rooms to be painted, the colors to use, any special preparations needed, and when the job will be started and completed.

There are various labor-saving tips and tools available at websites like DoItYourself.com, PaintHelpers.com, and PaintersToolbox.com. This information and some hands-on experience can turn you into a professional.

Before doing any preparation or painting, cover or remove anything that might be spattered on. Proper preparation makes for good painting results. This might involve pulling nails, removing drapes or curtains, filling cracks and holes, and sealing any stains. Then you can use your labor-saving tools for painting each room the desired color.

Resolve any customer complaints right away. You need satisfied customers to give you free word of mouth advertising. Besides, satisfied customers usually pay your fee without any quibbling.

Decorative Rugs for Home Interiors

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Identifying a theme for your room is the fun part. The bigger challenges are all in the details. For example, how do you find the accessories, fabrics, furnishings and decorative rugs?

More and more of us are searching online for our solutions these days, and for good reasons – there are a lot of choices out there!

I’ve heard from some design experts that it’s best to begin the process with your decorative rug selection and then build around the design and colors. This is a fine solution when you’ve found the ideal rug design. Yet, in my experience as a decorative rug maker, it frequently happens the other way around. Sometimes it’s tough locating the ideal rug. So the room tends to take shape without the rug in place… maybe this sounds familiar?

I wish I could give you a simple solution, unfortunately, it’s not always a simple problem. Most ready-made rugs will fall short in the size and color category, this makes it a long, tedious process of digging through websites, catalogs, and design magazines for inspiration.

In most cases, however, decorative rug designs can be created from scratch and fabricated in the U.S. easily enough these days – without the 16 week delays you’ll find when ordering from overseas outfits. Choosing the custom design route can be a fun experience when you have the right attitude. You can actually be a part of the process and have a unique connection to the finished rugs that will decorate your home.

One tip that may help speed things along – start by developing a foundation for the design process by identifying a few designs that interest you, maybe they’re in the room already in the form of art, fabrics, or an architectural design element. Take digital photos of these elements. You can also browse the internet for rug designs that come close but don’t make the grade. After gathering some ideas, make contact with a custom rug fabricator and discuss your ideas and nail down a reasonable budget. Within a few weeks you should have a decorative rug delivered to your door.

Custom rug fabrication is one of the easiest methods of tying a decorative rug into an existing home interior. Yes, it does require a little patience as you identify your theme, have the artwork drawn up, and produce the rugs, but it’s still a whole lot quicker than outsourcing overseas.