A Christmas store that’s open most of the year sounds like a gimmick until you’ve actually walked into one. Decorator’s Warehouse, in Arlington, Texas, runs
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September 2, 2026
Short answer: it depends which kind of “decorator” you’re actually hiring, and that trips up more people than you’d think. How much does an interior decorator cost varies wildly depending on whether you mean a design consultant picking colors and furniture. Or a painter-decorator doing the physical labor two completely different services that get lumped under the same search term constantly. This breaks down real pricing for both, across the four ways decorators actually charge, in the US and UK. Plus the costs that tend to sneak up on people after they’ve already signed. Decorator, Designer, or Painter-Decorator Which Do
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August 18, 2026
My aunt Carol hired someone to redo her living room last spring. She figured the quote would land near what she’d paid a handyman the year before. It didn’t. The flat fee came in at $3,200, furniture not included. Carol spent a week convinced she’d been overcharged, honestly. Before she actually called around and compared it to other full-service firms nearby. Turned out she’d landed a pretty fair number. I’ve since had two friends ask me almost the same question Carol asked me that week. Which is really the reason I sat down and wrote this out properly. An interior
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