What is the difference between Interior Designers & Interior Decorators?
Interior designers are responsible for a wide variety of tasks including: organizing a space to fit its function, ensuring that designs are in compliance with building and safety codes, including managing construction and installation of a design. A designer is also responsible for selecting and specifying fixtures, furnishings, products, materials and colors. The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) defines the interior designer as one who “is professionally trained to create a functional and quality interior environment. Qualified through education, experience and examination, a professional designer can identify research and creatively resolve issues and lead to a healthy, safe and comfortable physical environment.” At its heart, interior design is the art and science of understanding people’s behavior in order to create functional spaces within the structures that architects design. Interior decorators are primarily concerned with surface decoration – paint, furnishings, l
