But I have learned, picked myself up and am a better person and designer as a result of it. I get letters everyday from students who are interested in interior design as a profession. They ask me the same questions that I asked for my theme project. From my experiences with bad choices, my knowledge as a business owner and a life long student of interior design, I have pulled together some ideas to help up and coming interior design students so they won't make the same mistakes I did. I hope you find them entertaining and informative.
Interior design is a widely misunderstood profession.
People get the romantic notion this business is all about picking out colors, working with lush beautiful fabrics, and being creative all the live long day. That isn't so. It's about negotiating with installer's, paying furniture manufacturer's, keeping accurate billing records, ensuring you have met codes for your local municipalities, getting more of that fabric you ran out of, making sure the wall paper hanger is in the room when he needs to be, and making all of it seem effortless and stress free. If I had known that design was so much business and so little creativity, I possibly would have never allowed the thought to enter my mind. But it did and now I am addicted.