Before I enrolled in the Interior
Design program, I didn’t even know that it was a career option. I thought that an Architect would do everything. I did know that there were Decorators,
because of HGTV shows, but wasn’t even sure of what they did as well; I would
guess furniture, color and materials.
When I decided to continue my
education and go to college, I came to Ai.
I didn’t want to go to a regular college that I had to take a year of
general education before studying something I liked. I didn’t want to do anything too
computerized; then I saw Interior Design.
All I knew was that I was going to be able to draw and be hands on a
lot, that’s what I wanted!
Yes, but no. Yes I draw a lot but that’s only a fraction
of what is done in this field. After a year
I started to realize and learn more of the process. I learned to construct floor plans, develop perspectives,
codes and regulations, which makes the job official, how to research thoroughly,
construction documents, and presentation techniques.
Around the second year, things
started to get real in relations to the things that we have to deal with in the
real world apart from the general things that an Interior Designer has to do
regardless. When designing a space that
people will be occupying, you can’t just design what you want or like. You have to study the people that are going
to be using the space. Studying the
psychology of people and their space is something that would have had never
crossed my mind before I enrolled or in year one. In addition, at Ai, the professors stress the
importance of ethics, which is common sense, but in the field you deal with
clients of all cultures and personalities that need to be accommodated.
The software’s to construct are incredible. You can make anything come to life at scale
and with accuracy. Again, something that
I never knew existed. Reality, this is
an amazing career, for any creative personnel, with a lot of surprising and astonishing
things that provide you with many opportunities to succeed.
