• Do you help friends with their decorating dilemmas?
  
  
• Do you have a flair for decorating?
  
  
• Do you prefer a hands-on approach?
  
  
• Are you discouraged because you thought you had to have a college degree to become a designer?

Why should you train with an IRIS approved instructor?

All IRIS instructors offer five-day training programs in the redesign/staging concepts and their course manuals and content meet the stringent requirements of the IRIS Training committee.

Experience is the best teacher…nothing compares with hands-on training.

You will receive a comprehensive redesign/staging manual complete with business forms. We will provide you with the resources and the knowledge to start and market your own successful business. We devote an entire manual section to color and a whole chapter to home staging. We spend an entire day on business start-up, marketing and advertising.

Our expertise, shared willingly, in the field of staging is unsurpassed with our collective experience of 20 years in redesign and staging. Our class is the ONLY redesign/staging program in the country with THREE FULL days of hands-on training in 3 to 4 ENTIRE homes.

We teach in every room of the house: family room, home offices, kitchens, bathrooms and children’s rooms, not just the living or dining rooms. We provide intense training on furniture placement, accessorizing, redesigning china cabinets, bookcases and creating tablescapes.

In addition, we have fulfilled all of the strident guidelines set by IRIS to represent the organization.

Upon completion, you will receive a certificate stating that you have completed a professional redesign training program.

You will also have the opportunity to repeat the course free of charge, space permitting.

You will be eligible to join I.R.I.S. and become a Certified Redesigner and Certified Interior Staging Specialist. If you choose to join I.R.I.S. you will have a built-in network of redesigners and stagers to support and help you with design dilemmas. I.R.I.S. also provides you with an on-line directory in which you can advertise your services.

The redesign concept cannot be learned from a book, video or from photographs. You need hands-on experience to understand how everything fits together. Each home has its own architecture, furnishings and style.

Because there are two of us, the teacher to student ratio is lower. We each have our own unique areas of expertise to share with you on each project, including furniture placement, color, accessorizing, floral design, etc.

We have taught and mentored over 150 men and women, from all walks of life.  We offer continuous mentoring as long as our graduates need it to insure that they are successful in their own business.

Our credits include two segments each, of redesigning homes on HGTV’s “Decorating Cents.”  We are both published authors.  Our award winning book, IRIS in the House is an anthology of great design ideas for the home. In addition, our work has been featured in “The Half Moon Bay Review”, a local magazine, and Better Homes and Gardens.  Additionally we have contributed to a book on staging entitled 301 Simple Things You Can Do to Sell Your Home NOW and For More Money Than You Thought.

• "You and Donna are so positive. Your love and support for all your students is just wonderful and is so evident. I am very lucky to have you two standing behind me."
  --Elizabeth Forth
  
  
• "I'm very excited about this new adventure. Thank you for the excellent training and encouragement." -- Jill Mashburn
  
  
• "Thanks for an awesome week! I'm thrilled to be starting a business that has such warm and professional women leading the way." -- Cathy Hawkins
  
  
• "Thanks again for the training and the training manual. I refer to it often while in the process of getting my business set up. What a resource!" --Melinda England-Nadeau
  
  
• "I just wanted to thank you both for a wonderful week. I truly believe I can take on any project now" --Laila, Fremont
  
  
• "I truly appreciate all you did to create such a fun, exciting and professional training. Everyone needs to attend Home Rearrangements School of Redesign training."--Charlotte Lingley
  
  
• "Thank you both for providing such a wonderful class last week. I learned so much from you two, everything from the decorating aspects to advertising to how to treat the client right! I can't thank you enough. You made the class so enjoyable. You both are so supportive and positive. I really got a boost in my self confidence. I just can't wait to begin my new redesign business." -- Julie Lucido
  
  
• "The experience was excellent. Having knowledge in the design field, I was always stimulted by the daily challenges. The manual and discussions provided the missing information I needed to get up and running with my business and feel confident in doing it properly." --Karen Lea
   
• "What an amazing week I had last week – I learned so much and had fun too! I have to say I was very impressed with your teaching styles and you are fun to hang out with also!" --Susan Boyer
   
• Their program is professional, informative, hands-on and fun! They really complement one another and are very supportive of their students well after the fact. Perhaps stating the obvious but they are very talented designers and the added bonus is their engaging personalities make it a really fun experience in the process. They want you to succeed. I highly recommend their program, it's top notch. --Sara Arlin, IRIS

Home Rearrangements has had students attend their training from California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Minnesota, North Carolina, Texas, Idaho, Connecticut, Hawaii, Colorado, Canada and Great Britain.

A deposit of $795 is required to secure a place in the class, which is refundable until two weeks prior to the first day of class at which time the balance of $2,000 is due.

Major credit cards are accepted.

Lunches and snacks are provided. We will provide transportation from our recommended hotel to class and redesign sites.

Hotels and air transportation are not included.