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The Rewards of an Interior Design Career

By Lance Filbert
Learning & Life Columnist
September 12, 2006

If you're a creative person who likes the idea of brightening up other people's lives on a daily basis, interior decoration may be the right career for you. A good interior decorating school can bring out your natural talent and start you on the path to an exciting, creative, and rewarding career.

The Impact of Interior Decorating Careers

Home interior decorating concentrates on the spaces where people live. There are other interior decorating branches in which the idea is to design retail spaces, offices, or industrial spaces. Some people like to work on public spaces, though many people prefer to work on living spaces. I, for one, prefer the latter. I like to know that my interior decorating ideas will affect the day-to-day life that goes on in the space. I actually think of myself as an interior redesign specialist. Almost every space you work on in this profession is already "decorated." Your job will be to insert your interior decorating ideas as gently as possible into a life that already has a shape.

Customer-Driven Home Interior Decorating

When you graduate from interior decorating school, you are full of exciting visions of interior decorating possibilities. You can't wait to put all of your ideas into action. The sad truth is that very few customers really want total makeovers in their homes. Those who are daring enough to try a complete home interior decorating revolution can't always afford what such an effort costs. So you become an interior redesign specialist.

You bring as many interior decorating ideas as possible to the existing designs. You try not to laugh or scream at the thrown-together and usually wrong, wrong, wrong ways that people choose colors, accessories, and furniture. You'll just have to learn to grit your teeth and remember that your real job is to act as an interior redesign specialist.



About the Author
Lance Filbert is known for his witty and innovative design ideas. He has an extensive arts background and has an arts degree from the City University of New York. He lives in San Francisco with his partner, Bertram, and their cairn terriers, Toto and Toklas.

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