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Interior Design (ID) is undoubtedly one of the most sought after professions in India today. Currently, there is a need for 100000 interior designers in India alone, combining freelance projects as well as the jobs available in architectural and construction firms, and furniture companies.
If you are one of those design aspirants who want to take up the interior design as a career, here's a list of things you must and should know about this popular design domain.
1. Interior Decoration Is Not Interior Design
You might be good with colours, textures, selection and placement of home decor objects, and might have received a lot of appreciation for your interior decoration skills; but those decoration skills just aren't sufficient to become an interior designer.
2. Interior Design Is Not Entirely About Design
Unlike other design domains, interior design is not entirely about design concepts. Along with ID skills like technical drawing, space design, material knowledge, furniture design, and familiarization with interior design tools, you must also have great interpersonal and communication skills.
3. High Demand for Interior Designers in India
Rather than saying that there is a great scope for interior designers in India, we could rephrase that to there is a grave scarcity of interior designers in India. As mentioned before, currently there is a need for 100000 interior designers in India alone. The industry is growing at a rate of 20% and is expected to do so until 2018.
4. It Is A Very Rewarding Job
Though it won't be easy to climb up the ladder of success and though you might have to work for lesser pay/free in your early days, tables will definitely turn within a short period of time. The average pay for an entry level interior designer could be around 4 lakh per annum and a senior interior designer could earn up to a whopping 30 lakh per annum! Yes, interior design is one of the most lucrative jobs in India!
5. Interior Design Specializations
Interior Design necessarily doesn't mean designing and planning residence interiors and other living spaces. Commercial and office spaces, industries like healthcare and retail, the whole of the hospitality industry.
6. It Won't Be a Boring Office Job
Interior designers have to move around, a little more than other professionals! Meetings with clients, contractors, architects and suppliers, on-site work, review of the completed work, design plan revival, update to the existing design.