How to Become a Window Treatment Designer
While professional interior designers are not required to possess design degrees, both the education and the designations can be helpful in building a business as the market becomes more competitive. Creating custom window treatments is a specialty that requires unique skills. Many avenues are available to become a window treatment designer, whether you do it as a business or just for your own home.
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Decide how far you want to go with your newfound window treatment skills. Professional designers must have organizational, sales and business skills in addition to an artful eye.
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Try your hand at a small project in your own home to see if you possess the skills necessary for window treatment design. Cutting, measuring and stretching are just a few of the physical tasks performed daily to create window treatments.
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Picture in your mind what effect you would like to create over your window. Then shop at one of many window treatment websites that offer curtains, blinds and shutters. Order the appropriate articles and put up your trial custom treatment.
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Host a party at your house. Engage your friends and neighbors in critiquing your work.
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Offer to do a larger project for one of your guests. Use this time to gauge your interest in the brainstorming aspect of custom interior design. Listening to customers and turning their ideas into reality is a very special skill you will need.
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Introduce your own ideas into the project as well. Compromise is another skill that will become invaluable as you develop your clientele.
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Continue creating window treatments from the referrals that will come from your first work. Enroll in classes and earn your degrees while building the business from those referrals. Once you have professional degrees, then you should start advertising and letting your new business take flight.
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