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Interior Design masterclass with Raquel (How to make more £££)

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With over 15 years of design experience, creative thinker, and the founder of Mardesign, Raquel, understands the benefits of engaging, high-quality design that creates comfortable and inspirational homes and working spaces. Everything Raquel does is focused yet clever, functional yet fun - and it’s always affordable. 


Being a qualified architect together with a natural talent for interior design, Raquel creates spaces that are not only eye-catching but also functional. Her background of working many years in hospitality projects where Raquel designed 5-star hotels, restaurants, spas, gentlemen’s clubs, lobby areas, and high-end residential has given her the experience and expertise of making spaces work and feel better, and by having a commercially driven mindset Raquel knows how to maximize any property ROI and elevate its performance, and increase investors wealth using design as a platform.


Her mission is to create stylish spaces that people love to call ‘their space’. This ensures a high return on investment, reduced voids, high occupancy rates, long-term tenancies, and an increase of property value for her clients, discerning property owners and investors across the country



We talk about:

  • Why should someone be thinking about design when they are planning their property?
  • What is the cost of bad design?
  • What sort of problems investors face when they try to do the design for their properties?  
  • How should an investor position their properties in the current market? (to tap into how the market is getting so competitive and everyone is training to beat the competition and how design can be a platform to achieve that and provide great quality homes)  
  • What will an investor gain by investing in good interior design? (by adding interior design to property investors are increasing rents, decreasing voids, and ultimately increasing their wealth)
  • If an investor doesn't have an enormous budget what can he then do? 
  • When should an investor contact an interior designer?
  • What is the interior design process from start to completion?
  • What will be the return on investment for an investor on spending money on design?
  • Should an investor dress a property even if it is for a flip? 
  • What are the key things that people get wrong in design?
  • What are the good things that work really well to optimize a design?
  • Top 3 design hacks?  


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