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Workshops & Training



  • 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



  • 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



  • 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 Chicago directly at 773.685.4670 or via e-mail
at info@refinedrustic.com.


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