Description
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.
- • Estimate material requirements and costs, and present design to client for approval.
- • Confer with client to determine factors affecting planning of interior environments, such as budget, architectural preferences, purpose, and function.
- • Advise client on interior design factors, such as space planning, layout and use of furnishings or equipment, and color coordination.
- • Select or design, and purchase furnishings, art work, and accessories.
- • Formulate environmental plan to be practical, esthetic, and conducive to intended purposes, such as raising productivity or selling merchandise.
- • Subcontract fabrication, installation, and arrangement of carpeting, fixtures, accessories, draperies, paint and wall coverings, art work, furniture, and related items.
- • Render design ideas in form of paste-ups or drawings.
- • Plan and design interior environments for boats, planes, buses, trains, and other enclosed spaces.
- • Coordinate with other professionals, such as contractors, architects, engineers, and plumbers, to ensure job success.
- • Review and detail shop drawings for construction plans.
- • Use computer-aided drafting (CAD) and related software to produce construction documents.
- • Design plans to be safe and to be compliant with the American Disabilities Act (ADA).
- • Inspect construction work on site to ensure its adherence to the design plans.
- • 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.
- • Research health and safety code requirements to inform design.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
