Interior Designer Vs Interior Decorator – Know the difference.
Both terms Interior Designer and Interior Decorator sounds comically similar? Is interior designer just a fancy way of saying Interior decorator. The simple answer is Nope. They are different by profession and study.
Getting ready to join the world of Interior design or planning a revamp of your house or office space? Colleges are opening and you need to be prepared when you have to step out and be the designer that you always wanted to be. Well, as a first part of the prep, you need to know what the difference is between an interior designer and an interior decorator.
Here are ways you can learn the difference between both the professions and study. So, next time you hire someone to refurbish or redecorate your house or work space, you would know who to call and what to expect.
If you are student applying to be an interior designer. This blog should help you figure out how your life as an interior designer is going to be like. Those hands are going to create designs that is going to adorn homes, office spaces and public spaces.
Study & Profession – To start with study of interior design is an art. It involves extensive study of science, design elements, architecture and behavioural understanding whereas a professional interior decorator would be skilled at using existing or store-bought pieces of decorative elements to create an aesthetic space.
Learning software – As an Interior designer, you would be learning CAD Software which is a tool that helps in communicating your ideas to clients and vendors alike. CAD software acts as a universal language of communication that clients, vendors and designers can all understand. It helps you and the clients visualize the design and perspective of how the end result might look like when delivered. Technical drawings and plans adhering to building codes and rules are drafted via the professional software. Whereas, an interior decorator does not have any such software requirements as they only use pre-designed pieces to decorate an existing space.
Functional spaces - A skilled interior design professional will study the existing space, architecture and the client requirement and design elements and support the architecture to achieve maximum amount of functionality and efficiency in the given space with a touch of aesthetic glamour in each element while an interior decorator will help you with furnishing or adorning the existing space with elegant pre-designed elements that might not be functional.
Not just for home revamp! – Interior designers and interior decorators are all needed alike, when it comes to revamping a space. Homes, offices, restaurants, hotels, event organizers and public spaces, all such industries need both interior designers and interior decorators alike. But, for completely different reasons. The interior designers are needed for designing a home, an office space, a restaurant or a hotel or event to be functional and efficient while ticking all the boxes in the clients’ requirements and helping make the space realise an added element of aesthetic and glamour. While, the interior decorators are needed for making an already existing space look more pleasing by adding elements of pre-designed objects.
If you want to be a part of this fabulous interior industry, you have the choice of a range of Interior Designing courses in a college that ticks all your little boxes.