Interior Design Doyenne Crossover

I am acutely aware of the perils of distilling a lifetime's experience of a pursuit into the listicle, AI-chatbot bulleted, how-to clip embarrassment of the day.

As with all such nonsense, the innate skill of someone can less come across in a clickbait headline, compared to the jolt yet joy of wallop in yer face when running through a live example of yours to riff on.

Here's the accumulated wisdom of five decades by interior design doyenne, Nina Campbell;

Find Your Own Style
Choose Timeless Design
Think About Colour And Pattern
Be Strategic With Paint
Turn A Small Space Into A Jewel
See The Hall As A Gateway
Be Clever With Kitchen Planning
The Sitting Room Is All About The Seating
Invest In Your Bedroom
Make The Bathroom A Luxurious Place
The Importance Of Lighting
Don’t Forget The Details

If these sound like a dozen chapters for a book, then you can buy her latest, for £45. Or take The Course, via online supercoach style platform, for £147.

Mind you, the headings above could be the compartmentalising craft of the interviewer engaging pr [sub'n req'd] for her new shop opening, rather than curated Top 12 of someone a lifetime at the top of her game.

As with many such sages, sub-titles like these may not quickly grab you. The moment they are explained though, you start to get it. When skilfully applied to your current predicament, you're soon in awe. How did you ever manage without knowing?

When reading inside this particular listing, one of my first thoughts was, how good you must be that the profile of your frequently won clients is that akin to 'spendthrift billionaire'.

Then you slip seamlessly into the world where people come to you, precisely because they know you know, and that your knowing is more than they know.

In my earliest cubrep days, I often gained rapport through being the youngest person in the room.

Clearly without the Enterprise exposure of those around me, I'm reminded of one particular line which garnered huge cachet.

"You buy a system once every decade, I help people buy them every day. And this is what I've learned..."

It might well be a useful exercise to find your own twelve, similar to the lady's above.

In this spirit, by way of example I'll quickly, slightly remix for my current endeavour. Re-energising video calls. My first ever video sales meeting was precisely a quarter-century ago. And have done them regularly, continually, ever since. Also a lifetime in this context.

Find Your Own Style
Choose Timeless Design
Think About Passion And Pattern
Be Strategic With Pictures
Turn A Small Space Into A Jewel
See The Opening As A Gateway
Be Clever With Meet Planning
The Waiting Room Is All About The Weighting
Invest In Your Zoomroom
Make The Workbench A Luxurious Place
The Importance Of Lighting
Don’t Forget The Details

Not the twelve I'd go with given a bit of time to scope, naturally.

Yet it's in the digging down which reveals your appeal.

How do yours entice?