Professional Practice for Interior Designers

- Preface
- Acknowledgments

Part I: The Profession of Interior Design
1. Interior Design as a Profession
2. Professional Preparation
3. Ethics and Professional Responsibility
4. Legal Responsibilities

Part II: Getting Started
5. Personal Goals
6. Professional Options

Part III: Establishing an Interior Design Practice
7. Creating a New Interior Design Practice
8. Advice and Counsel
9. Business Formations
10. Business Legal Filings and Licenses
11. Preparing the Business Plan

Part IV: Growing the Practice
12. Practice Organization and Management
13. Strategic Planning
14. Human Resource Management
15. Legal Issues of Employment
16. Basic Financial Accounting
17. Financial Management

Part V: Marketing and Business Development
18. Marketing Interior Design Services
19. Promoting the Interior Design Practice
20. Additional Promotional Methods
21. Selling Strategies
22. Design Presentations

Part VI: Project Compensation and Agreements
23. Project Compensation and Fees
24. Preparing Design Contracts
25. Product Pricing
26. The Sale of Goods and the Commercial Code
27. Warranties and Product Liability
- VII: Project Management
28. The Project Management Process
29. Trade Sources
30. contract Documents and Specifications
31. Contract Administration
32. Contract Distraction: Delivery and Project Closeout
- VIII: Looking Ahead
33. Getting the Next-or First-Job
34. Landing the Job
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Internet Resources
- General References
- Index

Christone M. Piotrowski, ASID, IIDA, is the owner of Christine M. Piotrowski and Associates in Phoenix, Arizona, and a former professor of interior design at Northern Arizona State University in Flagstaff. She has more than 20 years of commercial and residential design experience.