How To Find Reputable Wholesale Workrooms

If you are in the market for custom window treatments, custom bed treatments, decorative accessories, custom shutters, or drapery installation -- you are in luck. There has probably never been a better time to be purchasing these goods and services.

Local custom workrooms and craftspeople have been suffering a severe drop in business over the last ten years or so. Use of interior decorators and interior designers by consumers has dropped by about 40% since the late eighties. Most local custom workrooms and craftspeople have experienced a similar drop in business because their customer bases used to consist almost entirely of interior decorators and interior designers.

They have to make up that lost business somewhere just to survive. As a result, many workrooms and craftspeople have begun quietly working directly with consumers. You can almost certainly find at least one business in your area that will do your custom work at wholesale prices -- if you understand how to find and deal with these businesses.

My book, The Insider's Guide To Buying Home Furnishings, explains how to find reputable wholesale workrooms in your local area--the very same ones used by interior designers and furniture stores in your community. Save at least 50% off retail by working directly with these wholesale sources instead of paying ridiculous middleman markups to local retailers and designers.

The Insider's Guide To Buying Home Furnishings lists thousands of factory outlets and wholesale sources for fabrics, wallcoverings, window treatments, lighting, furniture, and decorative accessories.

If you only need information on wholesale workrooms, you might prefer to download my electronic book: "Wholesale Workrooms and Craftspeople" (Home Decor Press, $4.95).