Decor & You Franchise Information

Americans currently invest at least $100 billion annually on home furnishings, including furniture, window treatments, soft floor coverings, wall coverings, accessories, wall art, lighting and mirrors. This market continues to grow annually. When the real estate market is up, buyers purchase home furnishings to decorate their new residences. When new housing starts are flat, existing homeowners redecorate and remodel their current homes. In either scenario, the providers of interior decorating products and services continue to grow and flourish.

Decor & You offers a decorating career that allows you to build a home-based opportunity in the field of interior decorating. As a Decor Designer, you are provided with the structure, resources, training and ongoing support that enables you to control your career in accordance with your individual lifestyle and financial expectations.

Is Decorating the Right Career Path for You?

Decor Designer career candidates come from a wide variety of backgrounds & experience. Although no prior decorating experience is necessary, individuals should possess the following characteristics in order to achieve success as a Decor Designer:

• Self-motivation
• Well defined goals
• Attention to detail
• Excellent follow-up skills
• Dedication to on-going professional growth
• Strong communication skills
• Organizational skills
• A sincere & passionate interest in decorating

We focus our services primarily on the residential and light commercial markets. However, those with specialized expertise to work within the "heavy" commercial market can do so, and our home office team will assist them.

Our system is designed to keep you focused on the professional side of the business, while continually developing client relationships.

Marketing

As a Decor Designer, you will develop clients within a protected marketing area by using our proven system of business development. Training in the mastery of this system is provided through our professional training programs.

Our marketing methods are interactive and enable you to develop relationships with many people. It is a fun way to promote and develop your clientele.

Training

We take a systematic approach to training. With a blend of classroom-style teaching, seminars, structured one-on-one personalized instruction and videos; we have developed a training program that focuses on four key areas of the interior decorating business:

1. The Decor Plan
2. Sales / Marketing
3. Product Knowledge
4. Business Management

The level of instruction can be altered and individualized to reflect the existing levels of knowledge of specific individuals beginning (or expanding) their careers in this profession, ranging from novice to degreed designer.