Interior Designer scope

Interior Design (ID) is undoubtedly one of the most sought after professions in India today. Currently, there is a need for 100000 interior designers in India alone, combining freelance projects as well as the jobs available in architectural and construction firms, and furniture companies.
If you are one of those design aspirants who want to take up the interior design as a career, here's a list of things you must and should know about this popular design domain.
1. Interior Decoration Is Not Interior Design
You might be good with colours, textures, selection and placement of home decor objects, and might have received a lot of appreciation for your interior decoration skills; but those decoration skills just aren't sufficient to become an interior designer.
2. Interior Design Is Not Entirely About Design
Unlike other design domains, interior design is not entirely about design concepts. Along with ID skills like technical drawing, space design, material knowledge, furniture design, and familiarization with interior design tools, you must also have great interpersonal and communication skills.
3. High Demand for Interior Designers in India
Rather than saying that there is a great scope for interior designers in India, we could rephrase that to there is a grave scarcity of interior designers in India. As mentioned before, currently there is a need for 100000 interior designers in India alone. The industry is growing at a rate of 20% and is expected to do so until 2018.
4. It Is A Very Rewarding Job
Though it won't be easy to climb up the ladder of success and though you might have to work for lesser pay/free in your early days, tables will definitely turn within a short period of time. The average pay for an entry level interior designer could be around 4 lakh per annum and a senior interior designer could earn up to a whopping 30 lakh per annum! Yes, interior design is one of the most lucrative jobs in India!
5. Interior Design Specializations
Interior Design necessarily doesn't mean designing and planning residence interiors and other living spaces. Commercial and office spaces, industries like healthcare and retail, the whole of the hospitality industry.
6. It Won't Be a Boring Office Job
Interior designers have to move around, a little more than other professionals! Meetings with clients, contractors, architects and suppliers, on-site work, review of the completed work, design plan revival, update to the existing design.

Hello Aarohi,
Earlier architects would do all the design work, both exteriors and interiors themselves. Of late people have become more conscious of the design, layout and placement of their interiors, for offices, factories as well as residences. This has opened the door for a large number of professional interior designers. Most interior designers specialise in a particular area. For example, some may concentrate on business design, while others focus on residential design and landscape designing. Still others may specialize further by focusing on particular rooms, such as kitchens or baths. With a clients tastes, needs, and budget in mind, interior designers prepare drawings and specifications for non-load-bearing interior construction, this includes choice and decoration of walls, floors, roofs, choice and placement of furniture and other indoor objects, window treatments and other indoor objects, lighting and control of visual and sound effects.
Interior Designer should be aware of the change in trends and keep up with the latest styles. Interior designing as a course has become popular in the last few years, there are only a few institutions offering reputed programmes in interior designing in India. School of Interior Design, Ahmedabad offers Five-year programme and J.J School of Arts, Mumbai offers 4 years Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). Unlike many other careers, design inevitably requires both a strong aptitude as well as a creative talent in the field.
Interior design is one of the fastest growing professional fields. There are lots of employment opportunities for interior designers in various fields. Interior Designers can find employment with architects or architectural firms, builders, public works department, hotel and resort chains, hospitals, town planning bureau, regional and metropolitan development works, private consultancies, studios and theaters and exhibition organizers. etc. They can also set up their own business. Once they make a name, it is a very lucrative profession.
Interior design offers excellent opportunities for those who wish to be self employed, or work part time. It is one of the few professions where one can operate from home with a minimal investment.

Life for the newly starting interior designers is very hard because reputation and experience takes a while to build. However, once you get past the initial years, the career prospects are huge. From starting up your own firm and taking on various different projects, to being hired by big architectural firms to cope with the large project load they have, an interior designer is in much demand due to the retail boom.
Interior designers usually divide their time between the office and the on-site location. A large part of their time is spent in meetings with contractors, clients and suppliers, and there may be large amounts of travelling involved in this career. Interior designers are usually required to wear protective equipment such as safety hats when there is a lot of structural work involved. Since, the design industry is a creative industry, the interior decorators are allowed to wear whatever they want, expressing themselves. Interior design is about 90% networking, marketing, selling, knowing the right people 7% paperwork and 3% design.
What Perks come along with this career?
Being an interior designer is a fun and creative job. There is no monotonous work as every single client has different expectations and this makes sure that the work keeps changing and is kept interesting. The work is also very rewarding because of the different number of options which an interior designer can specialize in. There are many different paths that an interior designer can take.
You may get into JD Institute of Fashion Designing.

Hi lalit,
An architect is general terms is the one responsible for the basic design of the Building, whereas the interior designer is more concerned with the interior ambiance.
An Architect : -undergoes a rigorous education, which includes higher mathematics and drafting.-Usually undergo internships before going out into the world.
-They must possess an understanding of a buildings basic structures. Most importantly an architect is responsible for the integrity and soundness of the buildings.An interior designer can take an absolutely hopeless place and turn it into something charming and comfortable. Though they can suggest structural changes to walls, windows and additions, they can't do the architectural plans.-They normally work with fabrics, furnishings flooring paint, wall coverings, art and object d'arts.
So while interior designers don't perform a critical role in safety or integrity, they often work hand in hand with the clients architect to ensure a smooth and even flow of information. Both have a critical place in industrial and home design.
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Pavasini, at this stage, you may want to understand the creative world and the careers it offers. There are many careers for the creative/ artistic people. Interiors, textile as well as Web Design rely on the same skills - your layout skills and color sense. Journalism also is at this level and relies on your language skills and knowledge of history and current affairs. A little higher perches Graphic Design, Fashion Design, jewellery design, Acting, and Fine Arts which rely on one of your artistic skills - sketching and imagination. At a similar level perches VFX as well as Motion Graphics which rely on one of your artistic skills - Cinematographic skills and imagination. Then come careers like Animation, Film Making, Game Design which rely on multiple talents like your authority over sketching, acting, direction, voice, sound, writing, storytelling and problem solving skills etc. Any extra skill can be used in this. So it turns out to be one of the most challenging as well as satisfying careers. Sure not recommended for the weak hearted. Do remember that digital design careers (e.g. web design, graphics, UI design, animation, vfx, multimedia) give better profits since they can be delivered anywhere in the world and hence may earn in dollars - resulting in better rewards for designers. Wish you the best for your career. Remember, your Career is a resultant of your knowledge combined with your passion and expression ability. If you like this answer you may select it as best answer or press like.