READY FOR A MORE POLISHED, PROFITABLE DESIGN BUSINESS?

A PROVEN WAY
TO RUN YOUR INTERIOR
DESIGN BUSINESS

Get the structure, tools, and support to make better decisions about your services, pricing, process, clients, and team, without reinventing everything as you grow.

WHO WE HELP

You’re an interior designer who wants a business that runs like a well oiled machine.

You want better projects, profitable pricing, a process your team can follow, and fewer decisions coming back to you all day long.

But right now:

  • Too much still lives in your head.

  • Your process changes with every client.

  • You know parts of the business need attention, but you’re not always sure what to fix first.

Sound familiar?

Then you’re in the right place.

HOW WE HELP

We help interior designers build the structure behind the business.

Through our programs, consulting, and done-for-you templates, we help you:

  • ✔ Define and price your services more clearly

  • ✔ Create a repeatable client process

  • ✔ Intentionally plan your workload

  • ✔ Decide what can be delegated, automated, or removed

  • ✔ Create better client-facing materials and systems

  • ✔ Make stronger business decisions as your firm grows

CREATE A REPEATABLE PROCESS

No more reinventing the wheel for every project. Build a process you, your team, and your clients can follow.

PRICE YOUR SERVICES CLEARLY

Create a pricing structure that makes sense for the way you work and the projects you want to take on.

DELIVER A HIGH END EXPERIENCE

A refined, high-end process = happier clients, smoother projects, consistent referrals, and five-star reviews on repeat.

ELEVATE YOUR BRAND

Everything from your proposals to client communication will reflect your expertise—so clients trust you and are willing to invest.

DELEGATE EFFECTIVELY

Get the business OUT of your head so your team can take ownership of their work and you can focus on work that lights you up.

MANAGE YOUR CAPACITY

Understand how long your services take and what business can realistically handle so you can better allocate your team’s time and schedule projects.

CHOOSE YOUR PATH

Business Education & Consulting for
Interior Designers at Different Stages

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FOUNDATIONS

For interior designers WHO ARE BRAND new to the industry OR JUST starting their business

Build the core foundation of your new interior design business from day one, with six weeks of support from our in-house certified interior designer and tenured design professor.

Classes start every Monday.

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1:1 SUPPORT

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1:1 SUPPORT THE DESIGNED TO SCALE® METHOD - PRIVATE CONSULTING

DTS METHOD - PRIVATE CONSULTING

FOR ESTABLISHED DESIGNERS WHO WANT EXPERIENCED EYES ON THE BUSINESS WHILE THEY MAKE CHANGES

Get everything included in Self-Study, plus three months of private consulting with Katie and Gloria.

We start with a comprehensive look at your business, then help you decide what should stay, what needs to change, what can be simplified, and what to focus on first.

Includes private business reviews, three months of ongoing consulting, and direct feedback as you make changes.

Private 1:1 support. No group calls or community.

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DTS METHOD - SELF STUDY

FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS WHO WANT A BETTER WAY TO STRUCTURE AND RUN THEIR BUSINESS

Work through a step-by-step framework for making decisions about your services, capacity, process, pricing, delegation, and client experience.

Includes trainings, tools, calculators, templates, and resources, with lifetime access.

Work through it independently, on your own timeline. No group calls or community.

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NEED HELP RIGHT.THIS.SECOND?

Then head to

Done-for-you templates for your interior design business.

Why start from scratch? Shop client-facing templates, SOPs, contracts, and business resources built specifically for interior design firms.

WHAT INTERIOR DESIGNERS ARE SAYING…

MY CLIENTS HAVE BEEN FEATURED in:

100+

1:1 CLIENTS SERVED

Through 1:1 consulting and done-for-you implementation services, we have helped over 100 interior designers build profitable, sustainable businesses.

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1500+

DESIGNERS SERVED

Through The DTS Method, Foundations, workshops, and trainings, we’ve helped more than 1,500 interior designers make better decisions about how they run their businesses.

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OH, HEY THERE! (That’s Midwest for “Hi!”)

I’m Katie, and I’ve spent the past nine years helping interior designers figure out how to structure, simplify, and run their business in a more streamlined, buttoned-up way.

Most of the problems designers bring to me are connected. Pricing affects services. Services affect capacity. Capacity affects hiring. Process affects how clients behave and pricing.

That’s why we look at the whole business, not just one isolated problem.

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