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When people start thinking about starting their own business, they wonder where to find a great business idea that will be as profitable as they would like. Many don’t realize there are about a dozen business ideas around their own home and property!

Take your garage for example, there are several different business ideas that you could start that pertain to a person’s garage such as cleaning, creating storage space, building shelving units, and refinishing, to name a few. Another great business idea is anything that pertains to lawn services. Many people consider their lawn as a way to set the mood for a first impression on the rest of their home. You can venture into cutting grass, landscaping, and more.

Closets. No home ever seems to have enough closet space. Thankfully, there are a number of franchises that exist to help organize closets for maximum efficiency. They help customers design closet layouts and then sell and install the products needed to make these the most efficient rooms in the house.

Take a look at your bathroom, how many times have you thought about expanding it or remodeling it? Entrepreneur.com suggests that this would make for another great business idea. People, especially those with large families, prefer large, numerous bathrooms throughout the house and elegant looking bathrooms to show off to company.

The next time you’re thinking about what to do for a great business, just simply walk around your own home or yard and think about all the possibilities of what you could do!

From Business Opportunities Weblog.

Fast Company:

Lots of companies gab about design thinking, but Chef’n lives it–and it has proven just how fast a startup can rise on the power of a few brilliant ideas. Chef’n focuses on kitchen tools, which are ripe for redesign because of all the fiddly tasks involved.

Like Oxo, one of its specialties has been rethinking common kitchen tasks: Witness the Switchit spatulas, the VeggiChop, or the Garlic Zoom. But its designers also tackle plenty of esoteric chores with goofy, purpose-built gadgets that seem utterly obvious in retrospect, because they’re so well designed–while sparking impulse buys because of the gee-whiz factor.

Witness the Wisecracker tool, for eating crab; the Flexicado avocado slicer; and the Grapefruiter grapefruit sectioner.

You might be surprised at the company’s humble operations. Apartment Therapy just toured Chef’n’s design studio and brought back these pictures, detailing the process behind one of its products, the Palm Peeler, which, unlike a regular blade peeler, slides over your middle finger, thus allowing you to trace more easily the contours of a round piece of fruit. Some people hate it, but it definitely works.

Design is the quintessential knowledge economy profession: You don’t really need a lot of overhead, just a few computers. For a company that racks up awards with bracing speed, Chef’n’s design headquarters are surprisingly simple–and tiny.

Photo by Apartment Therapy.

From Business Opportunities Weblog.

Springwise:

On even the most tastefully appointed of houses, garage doors tend to be drab and monochrome eyesores, designed apparently without even the smallest nod to aesthetics.

A German company aims to change all that, however, with large-scale posters that transform the doors through highly realistic 3D images.

Style-your-garage.com’s photo tarpaulins are available with a variety of motifs and images that are sure to cause neighbours, friends and passers-by to stop and stare.

A photographic version of trompe l’oeil, some are designed to give the impression that unusual contents can be found in the garage, such as an airplane, race car or monster-sized kitty. Others aim to provide a glimpse of the world beyond the garage door, such as a Tuscan landscape or what seems to be the home’s very own golf course.

Another series, meanwhile, aims to give the garage door itself another look altogether, such as through a rustic wooden appearance. Consumers can also upload the digital image of their choice and have it turned into a customised photo tarpaulin. In fact, Style-your-garage.com invites consumers to submit ideas for new designs as well, and promises a share of the profits if their idea gets accepted.

The company’s posters are designed primarily for up-and-over garage doors but can be adapted for sectional or wing doors as well. Crafted from material similar to that used for truck tarpaulins, they are rip-proof, weather-proof and even come with a fire safety certificate.

Photo by Style-your-garage.com.

From Business Opportunities Weblog.