Rebecca Hay

We're only a couple of weeks away from Christmas, but that doesn't mean you can't continue to decorate!

Here are some of my holiday decorating tips that you can carry into the winter months:
🎀 Use REAL & fresh evergreen clippings.
🎀 Choose one accent colour (for me it's always RED).
🎀 Light it up! Twinkle lights add beautiful magic around the holiday and extra lighting for the dark months.

👉 Share your BEST holiday decorating tips in the comments!

Hey Designer! Do you struggle to understand all the features of Instagram?

Do you know how to optimize your profile and create content that converts?

You should definitely check out the Instagram for Interior Designers course by of !

This course will help you
✨Create a plan and stop randomly posting with no return
✨Learn how to nurture your audience
✨Leverage the power of IG ads!

👉 Comment WINGNUT to learn how the busiest, most successful design firms attract clients via Instagram so you can too!

Have you checked out my new YouTube video about my personal kitchen renovation?

We gutted my entire kitchen and I redesigned the whole thing around one very exciting guilty pleasure: those unique sconces!

I now have a functional kitchen that I am proud of FULL of unique design decisions (like that amazing snack drawer) that makes this kitchen incredibly functional for my large family!

Thank you for making high quality appliances that are beautiful in this space!

👉 Comment KITCHEN and I'll send you the video where I show off my new favorite appliance and share my 5 best design decisions for this reno!

Last week I had the amazing on the podcast to talk about social media for interior designers!

(If you comment LISTEN I'll send you the link 😉)

Darla's course, Instagram for Interior Designers can help you optimize your profile, broaden your reach, and get the most out of every facet of the platform!

👉 Comment WINGNUT to learn more about this game changing course!

Your bedroom should be more than just a place to sleep—it's your sanctuary, your retreat from the chaos of the world. Let's dive into crafting a space that gives you comfort and safety.

Here's how:
🌟 Soft Textures, Soothing Hues: Embrace cozy comfort with plush textures and calming colors! Think gentle tones like pastel blues, soft grays, or warm neutrals.
🕯️ Ambient Serenity: Set the mood with soft lighting! Opt for warm, dimmable lights or add a touch of serenity with scented candles.
🧘♀️ Calming Nook: Dedicate a corner for unwinding! Whether that is a place for you to meditate or dive into the next chapter of your book, create a space (other than your bed) where you can unwind before bedtime!

Your bedroom, your rules! Customize your space to reflect your personality and preferences. Add personal touches—a favorite artwork, cherished photos—to create a space that feels uniquely yours.

What would you include in this bedroom reno?

Comment COMMUNITY to join the conversation and get feedback on your design ideas!

🛁🌟 Elevate Your Bathroom with Playful Wallpaper! 🌟🛁

Say goodbye to dull walls and hello to an infusion of personality and style.

Dive into Bold Patterns: Make a statement with daring prints! 🌀🎨 From geometric shapes to quirky motifs, bold patterns inject energy and character into your bathroom space, setting a mood that's uniquely yours.

🌟 Why Stick to Bland Walls? Let your bathroom walls tell a story and become a conversation starter!

Want to meet other interior designers and be inspired by each other's designs while growing your network?

👉 Comment COMMUNITY and I will send you the link to join our private community!

Interior Designers! It’s time to…

💥 Say goodbye to agonizing over design fee proposals.
💥 Gain confidence in determining your charges.
💥 Tackle client objections to your fees with ease.
💥 Learn from a step-by-step approach, the only one of its kind in the industry.
💥 Understand how other successful designers calculate their fees.

Introducing Pricing with Confidence, your complete blueprint for calculating your design fee with confidence, ensuring you consistently get paid what you’re worth.

This course is your key to saving precious hours on client proposals while gaining the expertise to price projects accurately.

The result? Attracting higher-paying clients and boosting your income!

🎉 Comment CYBER for the link and coupon code!!

🌟 Elevate Your Interior Design Career with Pricing Confidence! 🌟

Interior Designers, this is your moment! Seize the opportunity to elevate your skills and knowledge with Pricing with Confidence at an unbeatable price – a jaw-dropping 40% off!

💡 What is Pricing with Confidence?
It's your complete blueprint for calculating your design fee with confidence, ensuring you consistently get paid what you’re worth.

By the end of this course, you will:
✨ Focus on your VALUE and confidently say NO to providing discounts
✨ Take back control of negotiations with confidence
✨ Develop a solid pricing model using our Design Fee Calculator
✨ Master the art of communicating your fees effectively
✨ INCREASE YOUR PRICES and never chase a client for money again!

Act Fast - This exclusive Black Friday season deal is ONLY valid until Nov. 27th .

🎉Comment BLACK FRIDAY for the link and coupon code!

🔐Unlock Your Worth as an Interior Designer!

Ever feel undervalued and underpaid? Break free from the discount trap with Pricing with Confidence – your blueprint to confidently calculate design fees!

Why Pricing with Confidence?
💥 Learn negotiation secrets.
💥 Discover the right fee calculator.
💥 Master the art of raising prices.
💥 Taught by Rebecca Hay, a 7-figure designer with 10 years of experience!

PLUS, get Pricing with Confidence at 40% OFF this Black Friday season!

What's in it for You?
📈 Attract higher-paying clients.
💰 Get paid what you're worth.
🎯 Feel good about your pricing!

Ready to transform your pricing game? Don't miss out – invest in yourself and your business today!

👉 Comment BLACK FRIDAY for the link and coupon code!

To my friends and family south of the border! Happy Thanksgiving!! 🦃🍽️🥧

While us Canucks are stuck up here working, I trust that you are enjoying quality time with loved ones, eating loads of turkey and playing football... that's an American thing, right? 😉

I can say without a doubt I am grateful for the people around me. My amazing team that supports me from all sides and my designer community who continually cheers me on and shares in the highs and lows of running a business!

👉 What's ONE thing you're grateful for this Thanksgiving?

A design team can take many shapes. Yes, it takes a team to bring a design project through to the finish line. But not necessarily the team you think.

You don’t need an in-house team of designers and project managers to have success with a design project. Your team is your extended community of trade partners and industry colleagues.

🤔 Let me explain what I mean...

This project ( ) was a true collaboration. 🙌

When I couldn’t figure out how to design my built-in bench with fixed upholstery, I reached out to my design colleagues and asked how they had done it in the past. I collaborated with my upholsterer and my millwork company to come to a great solution.

The custom Roman, blind in the window was designed in combination with a completely new window and size. We worked with our contractor to select the right window to achieve a Great window dressing.

Each design choice was a collaboration between me, my designer besties, and my trades. 🥰

This is why I bring my trade partners onto a project early, before I’ve even designed it, to bounce ideas off of them. They are experts too🙌

If you don’t already have a step like this in your process, I highly recommend you add one.

🥰 We’re only as good as the team that we have collaborating.

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After the initial call, a consultation is the first step in your new project. This consultation is your moment to SHINE!!

During this 1-2 hour meeting in your client's home, you will
✨Get to know your client
✨Gather information and assess the scope of the project
✨Sell your services and review your contracts

My advice? I believe you should always charge for consultations! Remember, you are running a business and not a hobby.

👉 Comment CHECKLIST for the link to my FREE Consultation Checklist so you can maximize your consultations!

I'll be honest, basement renos SUCK. It's a small space with limited access for trades, & too much money goes into the sh*t you don't see. It can be hard to make an impact without breaking the bank.

Here are my designer tips for a smooth basement reno that doesn't break the bank

✨ Do the basement last. If you plan to do your reno in phases, please don't do the basement first! The basement feeds the rest of your house. Plumbing, electrical HVAC etc. You're limiting your reno options in the upper floors if you do the basement first.
✨ Always gut the basement before placing any orders on materials! There can be so much lurking behind those walls. Even though we design everything before demo we never order materials until we know what we want to do is going to work.
✨ Don't forget drainage. Most basements (in Toronto) need backflow access. Don't cover it with flooring to later find that you have no idea where that drain was!
✨ Always measure access before purchasing large furniture. Nothing hurts more than having to undo a beautiful stair rail or drywall to get bulky items downstairs.
✨ Always look for hidden storage opportunities. This is always overlooked! You need more storage than you think... think suitcases, seasonal decor, winter coats and boots, sporting goods, camp supplies etc.

👉 Share your thoughts: Do you LOVE ❤️ or HATE 😭 basement renos?

Refresh your home without a Reno! It’s hard to believe but this beautiful Muskoka Kitchen was part of a larger decorating project. We simply removed some of the upper cabinets, had everything painted, added a new backsplash and lighting, and VOILA. It looks like a brand-new kitchen!

Sometimes you don’t need a complete gut renovation to transform a home. If you have great bones decorating is going to elevate your space.

Good news: at Rebecca Hay Designs we love to decorate!

It might be my favorite part of any design job. The textiles the colors, the patterns… I could go on. If you’re looking to re-decorate your home next year, give us a call. I’d love to learn more about your project.

If you want to stop feeling underpaid & grow your business now, you need to make some changes in your business. Here are 4 ideas to get you started:

✨Always Charge for Your Consultations - You are a professional. If you're giving clients your time and expertise, then you need to be compensated for it.
✨Stop Sharing Your Discounts - You need to pay yourself enough to cover rising interest rates, grow a team, invest in that business course, and attend a business retreat- just to name a few.
✨Increase Your Rates - You are a professional. If you are giving your time and expertise - you need to be compensated for it.
✨Create a New Offering to Compliment Your Core Offering - You can enhance the value of working with you and give clients an opportunity to get a “taste” of what your services are like.

Ready to learn HOW to do these steps?

👉 Comment CASH for 4 ways to get a quick infusion of cash with your interior design business!

Kids deserve beautiful spaces is too. After all, your home is the backdrop to your memories. And let’s face it, most parents spend an awful lot of time making memories in their kids bedrooms in the early years!

I am also a firm believer that you CAN have beautiful things and have children at the same time. Often I hear people say they don’t want to invest in nice things until their kids are grown. But I am here to tell you that you CAN have it all - nice things and wild kids. 😊

We design rooms that are both beautiful and kid friendly. Maybe it’s because I am a mom of two little kids myself but maybe it’s also just because we love beautiful things.😎

This room:
When we renovated the second floor of our 100 year old Toronto home we replaced the existing wall-to-wall carpet with engineered hardwood. That was my excuse to completely redecorate my son’s bedroom.

Best part, the incredible custom drapery by . Full black-out lining means bedtime is easier on those long summer days.

👉What would you add to your kids bedroom, if anything was possible?

Halloween pre-children… and then the years that follow. 🎃

Happy Halloween.

Who has has got a case of the Mondays? Maybe it’s the rain in Toronto or maybe it’s recovering from a busy weekend but today I was Sluggish. I pushed all important meetings and gave myself the time to just take it slow. Anyone else feeling like this?

Power of Process is IN SESSION ✨This week is Implementation Week, a time to catch up ask questions and be in community with other design firm owners. We are working in building out systems and process in our business.

If you missed POP this time around don’t worry, we will be back with another session in 2024! Link in bio to get on the waitlist.

Happy 40th birthday to my salsa dancing, jello-shooting, super-Aunty baby sister! I had a blast celebrating you in Puerto Rico!!

What a wild 40 years it’s been. SO many memories and so many more to come. Love you dearly xo 🩷🩵🩷🩵

Design inspiration from my trip to San Juan, 🇵🇷

Whenever I'm at our cottage, surrounded by nature, I'm reminded of life's simple beauties.

The rustling leaves the sun reflecting on the water – they all hold tiny design lessons.

These trips are meant for downtime with my family, but nature has its way of inspiring me subtly as a design firm owner, and I love the experience.😍

Being there, laughing with my kids, and chatting with my husband, I find design ideas rooted in many moments.

Where do you derive inspiration from as a design firm owner?

That moment when you're about to start thinking about work, then you remember, 'Oh, you're not working tomorrow!'😎

Haha, it's time to take a breather...for one more day!

Okay, back to our Thanksgiving plans! 🙂

Cheers!

More than anything, laying a solid foundation for your business is crucial. And one way to start laying the bricks to set that foundation is by investing in your business!

When you invest in your business, you're sowing seeds for growth and clarity!

A well-invested business stands resilient, adapts, and flourishes, turning visions into realities.

According to Jocelyn, investing in Power of Process is that investment she wishes she had made sooner!

To listen to her journey with POP, tune in to episode 171!💯

Listen to the podcast now on:
🎙️Apple Podcasts
🎙️Spotify
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🎙️Or at https://rebeccahay.com/171
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The doors are OPEN to Power Of Process!!! 🎉

If you are an interior design firm owner who is looking for a step-by-step guide to building a design business you love... You are in the right place!

Can you imagine…

➡️ Running all your projects with a streamlined, repeatable process?
➡️ Every client becoming a raving fan (and a continuous referral source)?
➡️ Finishing a job with the same energy level you started it with?
➡️ Increasing your profits so you can enjoy the life you want?

Whatever your personal dream design life looks like, it all starts with having a process in place to make it a reality.

You'll discover how to create your own system to:

✅ Gain control of your time
✅ Organize your design projects
✅ Increase your revenue
✅ Eliminate the chaos that comes with running a design business

I’ll help you do that (and more!) inside Power of Process!

Enrollment is open until Tuesday, October 3rd!

Get all the details and sign up today at www.rebeccahay.com/powerofprocess

Ever notice how procrastination sneaks in just when you're about to take a leap?

Don't give in; let my masterclass be the one that sets your business on the right track!

Join me this Thursday and unlock the secrets to flourishing as a design firm owner! Just comment "MASTERCLASS," and I'll DM you the sign-up link.

I can't wait to see you there!😉

Let's get something straight: As a design firm owner, you offer a luxury service!

Typically, "luxury" is not a "need" but a "want"; therefore, you are not appealing to a potential client's necessities; rather, you are focusing on their desires.

This is when it becomes an emotional decision!👌

As humans, we're wired to feel more excited and rewarded when we have the possibility of getting what we dream of.

As a designer and luxury service, one of our greatest tools for attracting clients is learning and understanding our client's desires in life and offering that solution front and center.✅

If you're looking to learn where designers find their clients, listen to the latest episode, where I dive into the best tips for attracting clients to you!

Listen to the podcast now on:
🎙️Apple Podcasts
🎙️Spotify
🎙️Google Podcasts
🎙️Or at https://rebeccahay.com/170
(link in bio)

Have you heard about the free masterclass I am offering next week?!

If not and you're an interior design firm owner then you need to listen up!

During this training I will cover:
1.How you can master the discovery call and sell your potential clients into a consultation 
2.The ways you can present your design fee proposal to avoid getting “ghosted”
3.Questions to ask clients at the end of your consultation to ensure you are on the same page
4.The script I use to get clients to commit to making a decision about whether they want to hire us
5.And so much more….

So if this sounds like everything you need to up-level your onboarding this fall, come join us!! It's happening on either Tuesday, September 26th at 10am ET or Thursday, September 28th at 2pm ET.

Comment “MASTERCLASS” below and I'll send you a message to choose the best day or time that works for you!

Learn more at https://rebeccahay.com/masterclass

                 

In a world where everyone has an opinion, it's easy to get swayed or discouraged when others don't see our vision.

In my conversation with POP graduate Patti Lindsay, we delve into her remarkable journey of embarking on a new career in her sixties! Patti unfolds her diverse career experiences, the motivation she received from her daughter, and the pivotal role POP played in propelling her to advance confidently in both her personal life and professional endeavours.

Listen to the episode now on:
🎙️Apple Podcasts
🎙️Spotify
🎙️Google Podcasts
🎙️Or at https://rebeccahay.com/169