Many people think that Interior Designers just choose paint colors and furniture and that there is no real thought behind our process. They look at shows like Income Property and Color Splash from HGTV and thing that to remodel a room or whole apartment can happen in as short as a half an hour. What most people don’t see are the production companies cutting and editing hours and hours of film to fit the quick parts of the process into the half an hour time slot of their show. Some design projects may take months to plan, some maybe a few weeks but others can take years depending on how large of project. A perfect example of this is ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover, where a well deserving family gets a new home to meet their needs. In as little as an hour a whole house from demolition to finish is shown in the seven days it took to complete. No one sees the months of planning and research that was done to figure out the special needs products needed to build the home or furnish the interior.
In truth, most well and safely designed project take much needed time to be even designed and then additional time to be carried out correctly. In school we are taught the fundamentals of research and human factors and how this can greatly impact the spaces we design. Without this knowledge some can easily design a space that could potentially kill one or more people after it is completed.
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