Landscapes & Interior Design.

What is Interior Design?

Many new home buyers make the mistake of confusing interior design with interior decoration, but these two disciplines are worlds apart. While it is true that design did naturally evolve from decoration, the technical know-how and skill set required for a designer are far more complex and complicated when compared to simple decoration. For instance, a designer must not only have an impeccable sense of style like a decorator, but he must also have an intimate understanding of architecture as well. Not to mention a degree.

For these reasons, interior designers receive highly competitive salaries that start at around twenty-five thousand pounds with an average salary of about thirty-five thousand pounds. As you might expect, designers rely on experience and reputation and they are often only as good as their last project.

The two most popular kinds of interior design are residential and commercial. Residential design often focuses on bathrooms or kitchens or rooms that are frequently renovated. But simple decoration that includes new drapes or interior wooden Blinds or any number of improvements is also an integral part of interior design.

Commercial interior designers, on the other hand, often focus on office or workspace design, retail design or furniture design. Part of the appeal of this profession is that it offers qualified professionals a multitude of career options. A designer can work in large and growing fields like residential designer, or he can choose to specialize in something like hospitality or healthcare design.

And since many interior designers are also registered architects, they can pull double duty as both the architect and the designer. Though the average designer does work for a company, freelance designers who work on contract jobs are also quite popular and earn comparable salaries.