Interior design is a profession concerned with anything found inside a space: walls, windows, doors, textures, lights, furnishings and furniture, elements that are used by interior designers to develop aesthetically pleasing yet functional space for their clients.
Interior design involves a wide range of disciplines. It encompasses designers who specialize in residential or commercial interior design; designers who dwell in the commercial or contract realm of interior space design; and others who specialize in furniture design, healthcare design, hospitality design, retail design, and workspace design.
Interior designers draw upon many disciplines in their work: environmental psychology, architecture, product design, and aesthetics and cosmetics decoration. Interior designers plan the spaces of almost every type of building including hotels, corporate spaces, schools, hospitals, private residences, shopping malls, restaurants, theaters, and airport terminals. Many interior designers are also licensed architects.
Since the profession is regulated by the government, designers have to meet broad qualifications and show competency in the entire scope of their profession, not only in a specialty. In the US, interior designers who are also expert in environmental matters often receive accreditation by taking the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) examination. Others obtain specialist certifications offered by private organizations.
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