Careers in Interior Design

If you love design and decorating, this job could be perfect for you.
A good interior designer has creativity and practical skills. They need to be a good communicator and have excellent organisational skills.
Interior designers plan and supervise the design and decoration of the inside of buildings. This can include private homes and buildings such as offices, hotels, restaurants and shops.
To be an interior designer you will need a high level of design skill, which means you usually need to have completed an art- or design-related foundation degree, HND or degree.
The work
As an interior designer, your work would usually involve:
• meeting clients to discuss their requirements and ideas
• developing designs to suit clients' needs, their budget and the type of building
• preparing initial sketches for the client to approve
• advising on colour schemes, fabrics, fittings and furniture
• working out costs and preparing estimates
• creating detailed drawings from the initial sketches, usually on a computer
• finding fittings, furniture, fabrics, and wall and floor coverings.
You may also recommend or hire people to carry out the work on site, and supervise their progress.
The Creative Choices website (Industry Insight section) has information on how some interior designers built their careers in the residential and commercial sectors.
Opportunities
You could be employed by retail outlets, interior design consultancies or architectural practices. However, many interior designers are freelance, and either work for themselves or on a contract with a design agency.
You could use your experience in interior design to move into other related work, such as theatre set design, visual merchandising or exhibition design.
Key facts:
• There are 193,969 people working in the design industry, of which:
o 51% are in communications, interior and exhibition
o 42% are in product and industrial design
o 7% are in stage and set design.
So for bright future choose Diploma in Interior Design