Being An Interior Designer - The Pros and Cons
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- čas přidán 26. 02. 2020
- Is Interior Design the right career for you? Being An Interior Designer, the Pros and Cons is a look at some of the good and not so good things about being an interior designer. Is interior design the right career for you?
Whether you are starting your own business or you are just graduating or you are just thinking about design as a job or career, this video is a look at the truth of interior design and what other videos don't show you.
Sit back and watch me waffle on at you about how the reality of interior design is not what you see on TV or here on CZcams...
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Thank you so much for this! I’m so tired of watching sugar coated videos of these I wanted to know the hard truth and you did just that.
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you are more than welcome - the hard truth is not what people want to hear or what gets clicks and likes so most decor enthusiasts just show you the nice stuff!
Thank you for this! I am in the middle of receiving offers for university to study Interior Design and this video has given me an inside to the reality of it, however, I still want to push and succeed within this line of work to eventually create my own firm! I found your video as I am doing my Welsh Baccalaureate destination project on being an Interior Designer, and have had to research and contact firms about the job and the pros and cons, so this has been very useful! Thank you so much!
Very helpful, thank you!
Thank you. I wanted to be a designer but i have done retail work for 8 years and im absolutely fed up with customers and people in general. I need a career that I can do without others. Thank you for making it clear quickly. I very much applaud you and other designers. Best of luck!
Hi Catherine - yes retail is another customer facing role which can tire you out! There are elements of contact with every job of course, but if you still like design then maybe specialise in curtains and blinds (if you enjoy making things) or being a critic (so be an industry journalist). Much less contact and much less stress!
@@homeconscious i have been thinking of going into being an editor. Perhaps I can do them both with your suggestion. Thank you!
Hello, and thanks for the insightful video! Having successfully completed my engineering degree, I'm eager to delve into interior designing. Could you guide me towards any available internships in India that align with my aspirations?
Hello there! I'm sorry I don't know of any internships in India. I would grab some local magazines, make a list of the all the companies and contact them about joining them as an intern. Best way is to call them direct - you'll get far more information on the phone. However, you have an engineering degree! I wouldn't rule out doing something like civic engineering. That's another form of design that may be more up your street! Good luck with it!
I’m in year 9 at school and I my dream job is to be an interior decorator, I love decor and designing and I’ve alsways been fasciated by it, for example I love walking through ikea, range, du elm, and home departments of shops, I’m just worried I won’t get very far with it when I’m older, for example get enough money or not get noticed but I feel like I really love it, could u give me any information on what degrees and GCSEs and course or aprentaships I should be looking for, it just that we are looking about the future and what we want to do at school and teachers don’t know a lot about it, it would be really helpful if you could help! Thank you:)
Hello Maddison! The built and created interior environment is as important to our mental health as the climate is. It's very interesting to hear that you are looking at things at an early age as that's what I did. I was very much into spatial awareness (moving furniture around my bedroom mainly!). You may well change your mind about what job to go into. Some guidelines:
1) don't follow your friends and do what courses, subjects they do. Strike your own path. This is your life not theirs. Nor is it your parents life. Look at art, textiles, geography and sciences.
2) you may well be able to do some work experience at a homeware shop at the weekend or over the holidays. Take every opportunity you can to get some work experience.
3) Get the best qualifications you can in whatever subject you can. You can change profession or career at any point and employers are looking for people that can use their brain and apply themselves to a subject (whether that's geography, chemistry, art or English literature).
4) you don't have to get noticed or be famous to be successful. I have never looked to be famous. Work hard, learn your craft (whatever that is), and be the best person that does it. Success is never immediate but money comes from work.
5) read books on interiors, (not magazines as they are just full of adverts and pictures), and get a real understanding of what the job is. Books on drawing rooms for example, or books on the Victorian style or Art Deco.
Courses and apprentice schemes change every year. You could try taster courses such as this one.
www.klc.co.uk/courses/interior-design/short-courses-and-workshops/study-support-and-taster-courses/experience-life-at-klc/
That would give you a basic taster for the environment in which you'd be working.
Larger and longer courses cost a lot and should be only for those that know they want to do this as a career. If you are keen on trying the industry then I would look at larger design studios and ask if you could intern with them (unpaid!) to see if you like it first. You could intern with them over the summer for 6 or 8 weeks. Being an intern is great as you can do lots of things, get to meet many different designers and all the other people in the office who make up the team and really see what the job is like. You may hate it! But if you like it then you are best placed to get a real paying job there after school or college finishes.
Good luck with it all!
Belinda
@@homeconscious thank you ever to much!
I shadowed an interior designer and learned that it's not what I want to do!!!! You're basically co-mingling in the space of a skill with people who are ignorant about that skill, which makes it stressful if you don't care to babysit people.