Maine Interior Design Career

The perfect fusion of architecture, art and also engineering, interior designing is the ideal profession, especially if you have an innovative mind. For most people, interior designing as a profession only deals with selecting fabrics, furniture, house hold fixtures, etc. However, what they are not aware is that the profession also includes other important factors such as, understanding the electrical codes, reading architectural prints, negotiating with the contractors, and much more. As a result, interior designing as a profession is much more intricate and complicated, than it is usually deemed to be. You can easily find a list of professional ASID based interior designers, across the entire country, in every state. However, Massachusetts Interior Design and Maine Interior Design are more commonly known across the country.

Apart from the basic designing and planning task, one of the most important jobs of an interior designer is to understand the mind and the needs of the client. Before they start planning the entire project, it is extremely important for the designer to clearly understand the project requirements of the client, their investment budget, etc. Once all the needed information is achieved, only then the entire designing and planning procedures are initiated. The entire designing procedure is then planned using computer software. The cabinets, shelves, mounds, etc. are all designing in the computer, with proper measurements and dimensions. In the later stages, the color of the walls, the furniture arrangements, etc. are all designed properly, thus giving the entire project a lively look. Once this design is approved by the client, it is only then implemented in reality. It is due to this procedure that all homes and offices in today's time have a very modish and elegant look.

Interior designing as a profession also includes the designing of the kitchen, bathrooms, etc. Hence, you should also be careful while designing the entire kitchen and the bathrooms. For a beautiful home with an attractive kitchen you can always select any of the basic Boston Kitchen design ideas which includes of the "U", "L", one wall and the island style kitchens. Similarly, you can also design an ideal bathroom with the perfect tubs, sinks, shower faucets, etc. A proper thought in each of these designs will only help you give your home a complete and sophisticated look. Hence, if you are interested in looking ahead to a career in interior designing, you better get engage yourself in some of the best interior designing schools such as the Boston interior design school.

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Interior Design Training To Be A Professional

It seems that the interest in interior design training as a career choice is increasing in popularity. Consumers naturally want the best that their money can buy and some kind of assurance that those providing the service are qualified and accountable to someone if things go wrong.

There are many dedicated individuals who work diligently to increase public awareness of interior design while developing the profession to where it is today. This article examines the education, training, examination and licensing of interior designers in North America and the minimum standard of training they must attain for a professional practice.

Interior Designers
Interior designers are design professionals and are now licensed to practice. In order to call yourself a design professional, you will have to obtain a qualified education, experience and training with a professional, pass relevant examinations and be registered in the state you reside in order to practice.

This profession is an ever changing field and has become more specialized. The right education and  training is a critical element.

Council for Interior Design Accreditation
The interior design training curricula within North America are evaluated and certified by an organization called the Council for Interior Design Accreditation formerly FIDER (Foundation of Interior Design Research Education).

It conducts an accreditation process that promotes a very high standard of education in ID principles and practices taught in universities and colleges. The education and training may be from two to four years.

If your interest lies in commercial work, a bachelors degree is the minimum. At least two years plus experience and training within the field is then required. It can be more depending on the number of years of education.

NCIDQ
After graduation and a combination of six years of training and work experience under the supervision of a professional, one is then qualified to sit the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) examination. Passing these examinations qualifies you for registration as a professional. This certifies a interior designers competency and is considered the highest standard within the industry.

Online Interior Design Schools
Correspondence courses or distance learning is a relatively new alternative to the traditional training of interior designers. The curriculum should be scrutinized to ensure that it is equal to or exceeds Council for Interior Design accreditation. If you do follow this path, be prepared for the testing to follow and the strict standards of the profession.

Conclusion
What does this all mean to the consumer? Licensing ensures that the interior designers have not only creative abilities, but also have a formal education and are competently trained to guide the consumer through the design process. Not all states have interior design regulations and so it is the responsibility of the consumer to ask whether the interior designer has passed the NCIDQ examination. There is every reason why the consumer should demand the best.

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If you make your living as an interior designer or decorator the current economy has got to be hurting your business. When the economy is slow, many people who might otherwise hire an interior designer or decorator are forced to move such a ‘non-essential' service to the bottom of their priority list. If you haven't felt the pinch yet, brace yourself as your business could take a drastic nose-dive during an economic recession. Nobody really needs interior design services, especially in have-not times.

There's also the fact that so many of your days are spent on the business-side of design; negotiating with contractors, waiting for deliveries to arrive, billing, gathering quotes, and so on. This is all time that doesn't directly generate revenue for your interior design or decorating business, and when client billings are already meager, this can really hurt your financial situation.

Maybe you're one of the many trained interior decorators who have ended up working in retail for a 100% commission. If the economy gets worse and you're working purely on commission, where does that leave you? Even in good times, if you work for 100% commission you might as well be your own boss and have the freedom to market yourself to new clients rather than being tied to any one store.

When I decided to take the reigns of my life back and do something that would allow me to profit from my creativity, I considered a career in interior design. I struggled with that option countless times across a 20 year period when I was unsatisfied in my work. I researched, and even interviewed, many interior design schools in my "former life" but for some reason I never took the step to enroll. I decided with my BA, MBA and a couple decades of experience in business, being in a classroom for two to four years with kids 20 years my junior was not something I wanted to do.

Never mind tuition costs and the tremendous loss of income while you're a student. Then who knows how many years of working experience as a designer or decorator would be needed after graduation to really start earning money. I wanted to unleash my creativity and love for decorating, but I definitely needed to start making money as soon as possible. So, I started my own home staging company.

As soon as my business was launched, the money was coming in. Within my second year as a home stager I was making up to ,000 per month. Compare that to the median annual salary of ,150 a year for an Interior Designer according to Salary.com this year. I'm very happy I trusted my instincts!

If you're an interior designer or decorator and you aren't making enough money, consider adding Home Staging to your service mix or switching to a more profitable career as a Home Stager altogether.

Here a few ways a home staging business can be more profitable than an interior design business:

• As a home stager you get the opportunity to work with different types of people than you would as an interior designer. Generally, only very high income individuals hire interior designers, which limits your target market. Home stagers work mostly with clients in the middle to upper income level which gives you a much larger percentage of the population to market to, and increases the number of projects available for you to work on.

• Home stagers enjoy a higher volume of projects than interior designers because each one is so short in nature. One interior design project might take months to complete (especially when you factor in the wait times to have upholstery done, or furniture delivered), but the average home staging project takes only a few hours or days. There's no way I could have decorated hundreds of homes within a couple of years as a new interior designer, the way I did as a new home stager. With such quick projects, a home stager is able to complete (and get paid for) a significantly higher number of projects per year than an interior designer who often has client work on hold through no fault of their own.

• When the economy is slow, people eliminate the non-essentials. Interior design or decorating isn't really high on the "essential items list" especially when choices need to be made about what to give up, and there's no real deadline to redecorate or renovate a room. In uncertain times, interior design moves way down on the priority list, while home staging move up. No matter how slow the economy is or how much the real estate market has declined, there will always be people who absolutely have to sell and move by a certain date. Divorce, job relocation, job loss, mounting debts, a death in the family or a birth often get people to put their house on the market even if it isn't the best time to sell. When a homeowner is desperate to sell their house, a home stager will often be involved since the seller stands to make a handsome profit from their services. When people have less time, less money or less equity in their house, they need a home stager so they can get whatever they can out of the sale of their home! As a home stager, your creativity and talent for decorating will serve you well in slow economic times and slow real estate markets.

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