The Job of an Interior Designer

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Do you know what your answer would be if someone asked you what you want to have as a career? I know that my answer would be that I want a career in interior design. Interior designers evaluate, organize, coordinate, and design better living and working spaces. They require both artistic and business skills in order to do their job properly. Because I enjoy many of the aspects of an interior designer’s job, I chose this career to learn more about.
The job of an interior designer is to create a space that meets their client’s needs by using decorations, lighting, colors, and patterns (“Interior Designers” para. 2). Interior designers focus on how colors, textures, furniture, lighting, and space affects a building and its appearance (“Interior Designer Career” para. 1). They create designs that can help raise productivity, sell merchandise, and improve lifestyle (“Interior Designer” What’s para. 1). Most designers have a specialty or certain style of a building or space they they work on, and others may work for home furnishing stores (“Interior Designers” para. 11). Going through the process that an interior designer goes through to make a design is time consuming. They begin with the first step which is called programming (“Interior Designer Career” para. 4). This first step is like an evaluation; the designer meets with the client, determines their needs, wishes, preferences, and budget, and surveys their working space (“Interior Designer Career” para. 4). Once the client’s information is gathered, the designer will normally use CAD software to create a design and estimate the cost of their plan (“Interior Designer Career” para. 5). After the design plan is finished, the designer has to figure out what materials, finishes, ...

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...r Licensed Interior Designer will be given (“Interior Design Career” para. 21). To maintain this licensure, continued education is required (“Interior Designer Career” para. 21). For an interior designer to be promoted, one to three years of training is needed (“Interior Designer Career” para. 25).

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