Workshops

Please check the Events page for our Summer 2011 schedule.

Workshops, training and trade secrets related to antiquing & flea market finds: The acquisition of reclaimed materials & objects of interest

• Top 10 ways to repurpose old furniture with artistic transformations
• Visual strategies for blending antiques and vintage finds with
  newer elements
• Planning and making time for the journey
• Understanding the limitations of existing industry definitions
• The value of intellectual curiosity and seeing what others do not
• Expense is a relative thing: A discussion of cost vs. value
• Developing creative intuition

Workshops and training related to the creative procress: The process of turning raw material into a finished product

• Setting flexible and tangible creative objectives
• A dialogue between color and texture: The finishing of raw materials
• Timidity and inactivity: Excuses brought to you by your inner creative chicken
• Creative pressure and the power of self imposed creative benchmarks
• Exploring multiple options in the same creative direction
• The terrifying, the tasteful and the tame: Selling innovation
• Knowing when you’ve been beaten, and the wisdom of artistic reflection & retreat
• Lessons of creative failure as fuel for artistic & professional success

Professional consulting objectives & areas of expertise:

• Acquisition and production of decorative elements using
  reclaimed material
• Researching, pricing and marketing of reclaimed material
• Sales training related reclaimed design and innovative construction/design concepts
• Showroom display and visual merchandising related to marketing unique materials
• Leveraging existing company resources with a reclaimed focus
• Developing the sales presentation and portfolio highlighting reclaimed design projects & services

For more information regarding public
speaking opportunities, consulting inquiries and
other green perspectives please contact the studio in
Lake Geneva directly at 262.249.0940 or via e-mail
at customerservice@refinedrustic.com.