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Interior Designer

What is Interior Designing?

Interior designing is the art of designing, planning and executing the interior spaces of an apartment, building or other relevant architectural structure to suit the aesthetic needs of the client.

What do they do?

Interior designers are the people who are well trained in executing and visualising an aesthetic. They are given an empty, unconstructed space inside a house/ building and are asked to design concepts so that it suits the needs of their client. Their work includes choosing the colour pallets, positioning of furniture and the type of it as well as constructing the space to be a viable living ecosystem for the clients.

Interior design is a multifaceted profession that includes

  • Conceptual development

  • Space planning

  • Site inspections

  • Programming, Research

  • Communicating with the stakeholders of a project

  • Construction management, and execution of the design.

What is the eligibility and admission criteria?

Usually, 10+2 and 50% is the eligibility and 40% in the case of reserved candidates. The course is open for all streams.

How to become one?

There are no indirect examples as to how to become an interior designer. One can pursue a bachelor's degree and postgraduate degree/diploma to have an institutional approval of their skills. But the most important factor in both college acceptance and your credibility as an interior designer comes from building a portfolio. So one should immediately start building a portfolio for himself or herself in order to be an interior designer.

What are the top colleges for Interior Designing?

What is the scope of Interior Designing?

  • Get hired directly to restaurants, cafes, villas, stores etc 

  • Get hired by the government 

  • Start independent ventures

  • Get hired on a film/ theatre set

  • Get hired by Architectural firms

How much can you earn?

  • Avg. Salary in India - Rs 316,657

  • Avg. Entry-level Salary (less than 1 year) - Rs 216,000

  • Avg. Early Career Salary (1-4 years) - Rs 295,088

  • Mid Career Salary (5-9 years) - Rs 412,599 

  • Experienced Salary (10-19 years) - Rs 684,000 

Salaries are per annum. Source (payscale)

Who are the major Recruiters?

  • Homelane Urban Ladder

  • Bonito Designs

  • Livspace

  • Inch

  • K2 India

  • Studio Lotus

  • Lipika Sud Interiors Pvt. Ltd

  • Dimension Designers Pvt. Ltd

  • Aamir & Hameeda Interior Designers

  • Morph Design Company

  • ASDS - Ajay Shah Design Studio

What are the Books and Study material available?

  • Bright Careers Guide NIFT Entrance Exams

  • Concepts of Pattern Grading and IIFT Entrance Exam Guide by Surendra

  • NID DAT book by R.S. Aggarwal (aptitude section)

  • NID Workbook

  • Design drawing by Francis D.K.Ching

  • NID (B.Des.) Entrance Books and Test Series

  • Basic Rendering from Robert W.Gill

  • Guide for NID

  • NID Mock Test Series

  • Success Master- NID entrance Examination

 Interesting facts

Elsie de Wolfe, also known as Lady Mendl is considered to have invented interior designing as a career.