The Business of Interior Design... 2 things you should know before starting out

The interior design business is a highly rewarding one; it is not capital intensive and has no gender/ age constraints. It is quite a fulfilling career because it involves an expression of your flairs and artistic skills. It is also a wide field, allowing for specializations. To succeed, you will need talent/skills and passion.

Before starting out in the business,

1.       You need some formal training

It is necessary that you have a flair for making spaces look good, but you need more than that before going into the business. You need some intensive training on the technicalities of interior design which may be overlooked by an interior decorator. You will need to understand spatial analysis, planning, design psychology, acoustics, lighting etc. You have to understand what interior designers really do. 

A worthwhile training should help you become confident, increase your credibility in the job market and help you understand how to make a business of your passion.

2.       Adopt the lifestyle of an Interior Designer

What is implied here is to start adding those qualities and soft skills to yourself that will help you excel in your chosen career.

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 An interior Designer is vast; is very conscious of his environment at every time-always thinking about how spaces could be better; he reads and explores a lot, he acquires for himself a gallery of designs in order to broaden his own design vocabulary; he is disciplined and has good money management skills, he has good oral and graphical presentation skills, people management skills etc.

This is necessary because when you get into the business, you will discover that you need much more than just your design talents and abilities to keep the business going.