Interior Designer

Hello Aarohi,
Earlier architects would do all the design work, both exteriors and interiors themselves. Of late people have become more conscious of the design, layout and placement of their interiors, for offices, factories as well as residences. This has opened the door for a large number of professional interior designers. Most interior designers specialise in a particular area. For example, some may concentrate on business design, while others focus on residential design and landscape designing. Still others may specialize further by focusing on particular rooms, such as kitchens or baths. With a clients tastes, needs, and budget in mind, interior designers prepare drawings and specifications for non-load-bearing interior construction, this includes choice and decoration of walls, floors, roofs, choice and placement of furniture and other indoor objects, window treatments and other indoor objects, lighting and control of visual and sound effects.
Interior Designer should be aware of the change in trends and keep up with the latest styles. Interior designing as a course has become popular in the last few years, there are only a few institutions offering reputed programmes in interior designing in India. School of Interior Design, Ahmedabad offers Five-year programme and J.J School of Arts, Mumbai offers 4 years Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). Unlike many other careers, design inevitably requires both a strong aptitude as well as a creative talent in the field.
Interior design is one of the fastest growing professional fields. There are lots of employment opportunities for interior designers in various fields. Interior Designers can find employment with architects or architectural firms, builders, public works department, hotel and resort chains, hospitals, town planning bureau, regional and metropolitan development works, private consultancies, studios and theaters and exhibition organizers. etc. They can also set up their own business. Once they make a name, it is a very lucrative profession.
Interior design offers excellent opportunities for those who wish to be self employed, or work part time. It is one of the few professions where one can operate from home with a minimal investment.

Life for the newly starting interior designers is very hard because reputation and experience takes a while to build. However, once you get past the initial years, the career prospects are huge. From starting up your own firm and taking on various different projects, to being hired by big architectural firms to cope with the large project load they have, an interior designer is in much demand due to the retail boom.
Interior designers usually divide their time between the office and the on-site location. A large part of their time is spent in meetings with contractors, clients and suppliers, and there may be large amounts of travelling involved in this career. Interior designers are usually required to wear protective equipment such as safety hats when there is a lot of structural work involved. Since, the design industry is a creative industry, the interior decorators are allowed to wear whatever they want, expressing themselves. Interior design is about 90% networking, marketing, selling, knowing the right people 7% paperwork and 3% design.
What Perks come along with this career?
Being an interior designer is a fun and creative job. There is no monotonous work as every single client has different expectations and this makes sure that the work keeps changing and is kept interesting. The work is also very rewarding because of the different number of options which an interior designer can specialize in. There are many different paths that an interior designer can take.
You may get into JD Institute of Fashion Designing.