Before you start applying for jobs or looking for clients, it’s a good idea to take some preliminary steps to prepare yourself for an interior decorating career. By following the advice in this chapter, you could make yourself much more attractive to prospective employers and clients. In the pages that follow, you will discover how to develop essential skills and learn interior decorating.

Let’s start by looking at how much you already have going for you…

All the skills you need to succeed as an interior decorator can be learned. However, if you are a born with decorating talent – in other words, if you already have a natural aptitude for decorating – entering this career will be even easier for you.

Here are a couple of ways to determine if you already have the basic skills you will need, or if you will need to brush up on them.