top 10 interior design school Resources
Someone emailed me last week about going to interior design school. She wrote about how excited she was, and was looking forward to having a career where she could express herself artistically. She wondered if I could give her any advice.
Gee, where do I start? My first impulse was to write....
"RUUUUUUN!!!! Run away! Run away!
Just kidding-- halfway. What I mean is a career in interior design and home decorating is so much more than just putting together pretty colors or doing handsome renderings. It's also about communicating those ideas to the client.
My father, Joe Martin, has been a practising ASID for over 50 years, and he's still going strong. He has mentored 27 apprentices through passing the ASID test, which has got to be some kind of record.
His favorite saying is " a good interior designer is part plumber and part psychologist." To me, that means getting inside his client's head and figuring out exactly what they want. Many times, the client is unable to articulate the home decor look he/she is after. There are many subjective terms in interior design, and it's easy to take them at face value (see the post above this one).
Anyway, I was browsing through sites about interior design schools and found an article I thought was pretty good about describing what it takes to be successful: creativity, communication and organization.
That's a really honest perspective about what type of person it takes to really succeed-- you have to have use both your left brain and your right brain! ;-)
Here's the page link-- scroll down to Top 10 Interior Design School Resources, then click on the third link down:
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