Let’s talk about a few items you’ll want to have around for primitive country decor. This is especially so if you decide to take decorating other’s homes or rooms as a side line - for fun or for profit!

The Country Decorator’s Necessities

• Inspiration comes in many forms but decorating magazines keep you up to date on what’s current, trendy and desired in primitive country decor!
• A measuring tape.
• Paint color swatches in the most popular country colors (right now chocolates, pale blues, muted yellows and weathered reds are hot).
• Wallpaper, and carpet sample books. Keep them in your car.
• Business cards are must haves. Carry 20 around with you at all times and leave them everywhere! On bulletin boards, at friend’s houses, in paint and wallpaper shops, even on bus seats! Business cards can be purchased online for less than $20 a box - get 500 to start, use them up and they’ll more than pay for themselves in the decorating jobs you pick up.
• If you have photos of rooms or houses you’ve decorated country, carry them around in a case in your car. That way you can quickly and easily show people your primitive country ideas and rooms. (You never where your next client will turn up and you want to be ready to close the sale.)

Below is my list of some of the things that I quickly learned when I started my own decorating business to help you prepare for what’s ahead… read the rest…

Some people just seem to have the ‘knack’ for interior design or home decor…they make rooms like this, that seem to buck current trends, but you love to live in nonetheless!

A good friend of mine certainly does. Not only can she choose the colors that fit a room she also has an uncanny knack for knowing which combinations a person will love for years to come!

One night I sat down with her and a color swatch book for hours drinking coffee and talking about color, balance, mood. I learned a lot! Not stuff that you’d get in a classroom - just real talent pouring out to an interested ear.

You can follow along this path as well with your own decorating, then move yourself into an interior decorating business. It’s a great sideline if you like the work and enjoy people. read the rest…