What You'll Need to Get Started
A home-based furniture business requires many of the same tasks as any other business and a few skills that are specific to furniture repair.You should have experience in furniture refurbishing.You can get started if your experience is as a hobbyist, but you should also be able to understand how the furniture is constructed, as well as the art and era of furniture, especially if you plan to work on antiques. Before narrowing down your business idea, it's nice to know what a typical day would be like. In a furniture refinishing business, there are many different tasks you would need to do, and it's up to you to distribute them across your days, weeks, and months.
For most furniture refinishing businesses, a typical day would consist of stocking their inventory of damaged furniture, planning design ideas, doing market research and deciding what styles and types customers are looking for, refinishing furniture, networking with vendors and potential customers, listing completed furniture in online listings or setting up to sell the furniture locally, and doing work, managing work, and strategizing about work. Here is how it breaks down in the furniture refinishing business. A day in the furniture refinishing business would vary quite a bit depending on your audience. If you decide to do majority custom work, then you’d have more client-facing tasks before creating the furniture