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Interior Design: Giving Your Career an Extreme Makeover

By Amelia Gray
Learning & Life Columnist

Interior design is one hot career that lets you combine your design sense with a client's needs to create a beautiful, personalized living or working space. All you need to get started is an eye for beauty, a way with people, and an interior design degree. You can study on campus or online, and put your good taste to work for you!

Distance Learning Design

When a topic has got a reality show attached to it, you know it's arrived. Bravo's "Top Design" features 12 aspiring interior designers as they compete for a spot in one of New York's premier designer showcases, and the money to start their own design firm.

"Los Angeles is an exciting and colorful backdrop that will give our competing interior designers the chance to utilize all the city has to offer, while giving viewers a peek inside their creative and challenging world," says Frances Berwick, a Programming and Production VP for Bravo. Though the designers come from all walks of life, experience or formal training is a common thread.

Keys to a Successful Design Course Online

You should expect your interior design course to cover the basics of marketing, design, and consultation. The success of your startup design firm will depend on marketing skills, along with a sense of style. Many clients expect designers to have some familiarity with computer-aided design (CAD)--which you can also train for online.

Securing a challenging, artistic career in interior design may be its own reward, but the salary is a bonus. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, designers in the following fields made an average of $40, 670 in 2004. An interior design degree can be your first step to an artful career.

Sources:

• BRAVOtv.com, Top Design
• Bureau of Labor Statistics

About the Author
Amelia Gray is a teacher and freelance writer in San Marcos, TX. Amelia earned a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature from Arizona State University.

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