Interior Designer Overview

You don't necessarily have to be a bored star-wife to make it as a good Interior Designer (with due respect to star-wives). All you need is a sense of space and a well-defined aesthetic sense. Then, you probably have all that it takes to be a good interior designer. Here's more dope on the career.

If you wish to become an interior designer, you need to know that interior designing is not the same as interior decoration. The former is all about intelligent and aesthetic use of space. Interior Designers work with engineers, illustrators, administrators and the likes. Good designers pay attention to style as well as function. To be successful in this field you need to be creative.

As an interior designer you will not just design the space but also plan, develop and execute the site. Once that is done you will also design furniture pieces. Your work will focus on researching, planning, developing and implementing designs for indoor environments, such as living rooms or office lobbies. The space designed will have to be beautiful and functional as well.

Interior decoration on the other hand, is a less tedious process. Here all you have to do is select readymade furniture pieces to suit the space and fit it in. Most interior decorators are not academically trained.

For now, let's stick to Interior Design. Apart from having a strong design sense you also need to be fully aware of what your client wants. As an interior designer, you will often work within tight budget constraints and close deadlines. Making innumerable blueprints of your ideas will be a part of your job as an interior designer.

In addition to structuring space and drawing blueprints, you'll also be responsible for choosing furniture, carpeting, paint and fixtures. It also includes preparing tender documents, selecting and entrusting the work to suitable contractors, supervising, checking, certifying bills, etc. If you want to become an interior designer, be prepared to break your head with the clients, contractors, electricians, plumbers etc.

Computer skills will come handy while preparing those innumerable blueprints. Most design fields, these days rely heavily on CAD (Computer Aided Design) and illustration programmes such as AutoCAD.

As an interior designer you could specialise in designing restaurants, private homes, office spaces, hospitals or hotels. Two new avenues related to interior designing - Vaastu Shastra and its Chinese counterpart Feng Shui have only made it richer. If you weave your designs around it, well then you have finally arrived! If you need more information on this profile please feel free to contact us Now.