Interior Design Is A Luxury Business. Why Are Most Designers Struggling?

Interior design procurement is costing most designers money they don't know they're losing. Procurement specialist Timala Stewart, a former corporate furniture buyer with a decade of experience at companies including Ashley Furniture, audited a single finished project for one of her clients and found a $2,000 leak in freight and warehousing charges alone. That was one room. Eight rooms would have been $16,000. The designer was experienced. She simply didn't know what to account for.

This is the part of your business nobody taught you. Not design school. Not your first mentor. Not the software platforms you're paying for every month. Procurement, the sourcing, ordering, tracking, coordinating, and documenting that happens from the moment a design concept is approved to the day install is complete, is where the gap between what you think you're making and what you're actually keeping lives.