Interior Designers
Plan, design, and furnish the internal space of rooms or buildings. Design interior environments or create physical layouts that are practical, aesthetic, and conducive to the intended purposes. May specialize in a particular field, style, or phase of interior design.
What is this job like?
- Design spaces to be environmentally friendly, using sustainable, recycled materials when feasible.
- Research and explore the use of new materials, technologies, and products to incorporate into designs.
- Estimate material requirements and costs, and present design to client for approval.
- Use computer-aided drafting (CAD) and related software to produce construction documents.
- Inspect construction work on site to ensure its adherence to the design plans.
- Coordinate with other professionals, such as contractors, architects, engineers, and plumbers, to ensure job success.
- Review and detail shop drawings for construction plans.
- Render design ideas in form of paste-ups or drawings.
- Design plans to be safe and to be compliant with the American Disabilities Act (ADA).
- Select or design, and purchase furnishings, art work, and accessories.
- Subcontract fabrication, installation, and arrangement of carpeting, fixtures, accessories, draperies, paint and wall coverings, art work, furniture, and related items.
- Confer with client to determine factors affecting planning of interior environments, such as budget, architectural preferences, purpose, and function.
- Select or design, and purchase furnishings, art work, and accessories.
- Estimate material requirements and costs, and present design to client for approval.
- Plan and design interior environments for boats, planes, buses, trains, and other enclosed spaces.
Local Wage Data
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$36,610
$61,590
$101,550
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$29.61
$48.82