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Instead of investing in brand new furniture, people often choose to hire someone to refinish their current furniture. Furniture refinishing is also very popular when pieces of furniture are discovered in yard sales and antique stores.
If you have a knack for transforming old furniture into better-than-new furniture, whether it be by sanding down and re-staining, or reupholstering, then you could cash in on this lucrative business and start your own furniture refinishing business.
How to Get Into the Furniture Refinishing Business
Your first step in starting a furniture refinishing business is to set up a shop area in your home, garage, or work shed that has proper ventilation. You will be sanding wood, as well as using stain, and wood and reupholstering glue so your shop area will need to be well ventilated.
Your shop area will need to be equipped with the all of the tools required for refinishing furniture, as well as a good supply of materials.
You will also want to set up an office area in your home that will allow you to organize your schedule, your customer's information, your pricing and your revenue.
You will want to advertise your furniture refinishing business through flyers, pamphlets and newspaper ads.
Skills Needed:
Skill in refinishing furniture is the key to your successful furniture refinishing business. Expand on your knowledge of furniture refinishing by taking workshops and courses, so that you can offer a whole realm of furniture refinishing options to your customers; whether it be to add new cushioning and upholstery to an heirloom couch or completely strip and refinish a dining room set and chairs.
Effective communication skills and customer relation skills will allow you to deal most appropriately with your customers. You will also want to have good time management skills so that you can complete refinishing projects when promised.
Marketing skills will allow you to get the word out to your target market that they can bring all of their furniture refinishing projects to your furniture refinishing business.
Experience Needed:
You will want to have hands-on experience in refinishing many pieces of furniture prior to starting your own furniture refinishing business. Work experience in a refinishing shop, or apprenticing with someone who refinishes furniture will be the most valuable experience you could gain as you prepare to open your own furniture refinishing business.
Experience in business management will also be helpful when it comes time to balance the books. Consider taking a business management workshop or course, if you lack experience in running a small business.
Startup Requirements:
Setting up your refinishing shop will be your biggest investment when starting your home based furniture refinishing business.
It will also be worth it to invest in marketing mediums such as flyers, pamphlets and newspaper ads to announce your furniture refinishing services.
Resources:
Furniture Associations
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