ABC’s of Fine Design

What does an RV have to do with interior design? Well everything, did you know that you can get paid as an interior designer to design the inside of an RV? New RVs are stylish and fun to use. Some are even designed to be environmentally friendly. This about this as a career for a minute. It’s fun as you can help a family connect and grow with your design. Just picture them in their RV camping, fishing and getting to know each other, something many families now don’t do.

Another great reason to get into the RV field for design is not only do families use RV’s so do many celebrates. You can design the next rock and roll RV or maybe one for a rapper or country artist. Most of the time it is the music industry that uses them, but if your a nascar fan, like me you may be interested in designing one for a driver or crew chef. Definitely a career to think about right?

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Some people think that once your an interior designer that is all you will do, but in most cases interior designers do so much more. One designer I had a chance to talk to not only does interior design work but she own her own salon and spa. So really you can do anything once you get that design degree. You could design luggage, rugs or bedding. You also could run a restaurant or other business.

A big reason for this is that interior designers also need to know a good part about general business practices. They need to have an idea of laws and codes and are really the perfect person to run any type of business. They know how to design the space to work for the business and what goes into it. So if your thinking of getting a design degree check it out, you can do so much more then just put paint on walls and make a place look good.

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I was reading an article today about how many designers were at one point designing and selling vacation homes. People would get great vacation deals to a location from these designers, then after checking out the home they were offered a chance to buy it.

I think this is a great way for someone who is handy or has design knowledge to make some extra money, or even have a business. Vacation homes are a big thing and if you can try one out before you buy that is even better. This is something I may have to try out sometime.

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I found out the other day that I may be able to design homes and sell them. I like this idea, but it takes a lot of time to do all of the planning. I would have to draft out everything, decide where plumbing and lighting and everything goes and then sell these plans to people. That would mean I would have to find someone to buy them. I of course could also put an ad in the paper or online and design on a customer basis, this would make me feel better, but I know right now it’s not something that would make much money in my area.

This is an example of what an interior designer with a bachelors degree can do. We can design homes, inside and out. We can make plans and actually have these homes built. Most of the time you want the approval of an architect or engineer for your plans, but you don’t have to have that. If this is something that interest you, you will need to know how to draft and general building codes, you also want to put a clause on your plans that say they need to be reviewed by a local contractor or engineer as building codes vary by area.

The best part about this job is that you can work from home and be your own boss. Not a bad situation I think.

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I have met many people who have gone to school for interior design and become wedding planners or help design wedding chapels and so on. This area of design has always seemed like a fun thing to do for me until I think about how many brides get angry or become monsters. Even then I wouldn’t mind doing it. I have thought about specializing in this field before, but I have never had enough money to do so. You have to have money to start a business like this. Not a lot, but a good amount.

Being a wedding designer requires many different things, you have to find interesting wedding table decorations that fit the theme and the bride and grooms taste. Something like wedding plant favors that you can personalize. You also have to have good contacts in the wedding industry and come up with good wedding favor ideas.  Many times you are asked to do things that you may not know much about. You also have to be able to eat cake, this is where I would have a problem as I can’t taste cake all day, but I could find ways around it. This is not an easy job, but if your someone who likes creativity and a job that constantly changes this could be a design Field for you.

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Interior design is just not about homes, sometimes it’a about the busness you visit and how you feel in them. An example would be an Airport Lounge. You want to feel comfortable enough if your there for a few hours, but you don’t want people to feel comfortable enough not to want to leave. Unless your doing a club section.

The same thing goes with the plan you fly in. Most commercal airplanes are about the same, but did you know that interior designers actually are involved in the design of these planes? If you didn’t your in for a surprise, many time people with interior design degrees help design the inside of these planes. Of course many don’t do much commercal work, they usually design private jets for corperations or wealty people. These are people who want bars, tv’s and beds in their planes. They use them to go anywhere and want the same comfort on board as they have at home. How about that for a job?

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I was talking with a women I use to go to school with a few minutes ago. She is in Florida on a project for a truck accident lawyer. She said he was a very strange person who wanted his office to have pictures of burning trucks all over it. She eventually talked him out of that idea and he now just has one from a case he won a few years ago. It has an article to go with it so it works.

As an interior designer my old classmate runs into many strange people. She said it’s really part of the job. She was one of 10 hires at her firm and after almost a year she is the only one left. The other girls decided they wanted to be decorations, not designers. They wanted to go into homes and choose furniture and fabric. Pretty much their goal was to be on HGTV as one of the crafty show host. I feel bad as they spent a good amount of money to get though school only to figure out they didn’t like it. Our school required an internship and even though mine was horrible there is still a good reason for it. You learn if your field is really something you want to go into. Schools that don’t require it to graduate leave you on your own to figure that out so if your looking into the interior design career I suggest contacting a designer and seeing if you can job shadow them for a day, just so you can see interior design is not like trading spaces or some of the other shows on TV. It’s much, much more.

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