The thing about interior design practice is that the result isn’t always noticeable at first. At least not in the way you want it to be. You’ll make all these little tweaks and adjustments: you move a chair, you adjust a lamp, you take away…
It’s faster to improve a room with feedback, but only if you know what you are looking for. I find that fledgling designers ask for too much feedback too soon in the process. Then the room becomes a dumping ground for feedback: Add some color.…
Having too many ideas can be more detrimental to practicing interior design than having no ideas at all. The beginner interior designer is apt to quickly amass a collection of images, colors, furniture shapes, and room styles that are all forgotten almost as quickly as…
A room can feel overwhelming before you have the words for what you are seeing. One corner feels heavy, another seems empty, the colors do not sit well together, and somehow the whole space lacks direction. That confusion is a normal place to begin with…