If you could restore the antique to its former beautiful appearance, you can earn money with resort to antique restoration service. At present, there are more than 6000 professional antique restoration services in America. These services include looking for antiques, repairing, restoring, polishing the furniture, automobile and collecting other ancient things.
It needs many highly proficient skills to restore the antiques. Many people take this kind of matter as their hobbies at first, and start to formally manage it until they gain enough experience to attract the customers. Many people start their professional antique restoration service from discovering, restoring and reselling their own antiques. Some people prepare to deal with this business from working for others. A successful enterprise needs advanced skills, perfect products and whole customer knowledge.
Who will become your client?
Your antique restoration knowledge and skill can provide the service for individuals, antique businessmen, resellers, inheritance successors, investors, art museum, museum or other people. |
What about the charges?
The antique restoration service charge is usually $ 35-75 /hours or even higher. For a specific service, the charge is according to its necessary skills and tools. Some restorations only need several manual tools, but some need to cost thousands of US dollars to provide high quality services. Most of restoration service charges depend on increased value which brings in by service.
Commonly, daily expense (including of tax) is possibly as high as half of your income. Thus, if every year's professional antique restoration service income is 100,000 US dollars, you may earn 50,000 US dollar or more that this.
Because some antiques are big and too brittle to transit, therefore they are often restored in local place. But many antique restoration service provider still search more related information through the Internet and join media organization or profession association. In addition, the project management software may also help them record the concrete restoration cost and income. Service providers often earn more money than that they have expected. |