Still thinking about doing interior decorating work?

If you are inclined toward a creative home interior design, residential design is right for you. Now let’s get your design style on!

Most designers specialize in one or two rooms with one or two styles. Kitchens and bathrooms for instance are mine. Primitive country and farmhouse country are my favorites. What are yours? Where does your talent, interest, or style fall under?

Much of your specialty will depend on your biggest interest.

It doesn’t really matter which area you choose - they all have their own rewards and challenges. The best reason to specialize is to set yourself up as an expert in your field. Many people would prefer an expert. It adds to your professional status. read the rest…

Interior Decorators often specialize in one area of design. By focusing on one or two specialties and perhaps dabbling in other related areas of decor, a decorator can concentrate more on each individual client and less on trends.

Whether you are looking for a decorating specilist or are thinking of becoming a decorator, specialization is desirable. A focused designer is a sought-out designer. A decorating specialist who understands, and perhaps even sets, the trends for a ‘decor genre’.

Let’s talk about you, and your home now. Once you’ve defined your favorite style, enhanced your eye and skills in that mode of design, you then set out to showcase and display the variety and range within.

Here’s an example using my own home. Since the style I love the most is country, my decor varies throughout the rooms. While the kitchen is farmhouse country, the dining room and bath are rustic or primitive country. And my daughter’s room, as well as the living room and office are what I like to call ‘up country’.

As you can see there is a lot of freedom in any specialization as you learn to blend and mix ‘looks’ with the personality of the room or the inhabitant. Once you go out to decorate for a living it becomes very easy at that point, to give your clients the same consideration. You’ll often be given free reign to let your creativity create a beautiful space for them - assignments that may begin with just one room but which could blossom into redecorating the entire house, the deck, guest houses, and yes, even gardens! read the rest…