Interior Design School: Your Bridge Between Today and Tomorrow
by Wendy Croix
Interior Design School Review Columnist
You design great interiors for your friends, your family and yourself. Do you really want to go to design school and risk spoiling your natural talent? In a word, YES!
You today, the intuitive interior designer
Whether hobbyist designer or hopeful interior amateur, you know one thing about yourself for sure: you're hooked on interior design. Because you love design, you're afraid that interior design school might ruin your natural abilities. Put your mind at ease. Studying interior design will hone your abilities, not squelch your instinct for interiors.
Your design school transition
Fear of formal interior design education comes from not understanding the ways in which school shapes your basic instincts for interior design. Here's what you'll get from design school:
- You'll put words on your skills. You have an intuitive sense of design and a personal flair—but school gives you the language of interior design. Learning to express your ideas to your interior design instructors teaches you to communicate your designs to your interior design clients.
- You'll become a design professional. What's the difference between a talented amateur designer and a pro? Design school. As an amateur, you design interiors for friends and for free. As a professional, you design for the public for a fee, because you've got your interior design school degree.
- You'll join the interior design community. As a hobbyist designer, you work in not-so-splendid isolation. As a professional interior designer, you'll work with others, sharing inspiration in a professional design community.
You in your future, the well-schooled professional interior designer
Hang out your interior design shingle, or join a design firm. Now you've got the formal design experience, the design community connections, and the interior design credentials that only a design school education can provide. Now the world sees you as an interior design professional. You (and your mom and your friends) will be proud.
About the Author
Wendy Croix, Ph.D. is a freelance writer, cultural critic, and university professor. In her twenty years as a professional educator, Wendy has guided hundreds of students toward the careers of their dreams.
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