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Need a New Look? Start With Interior Lighting
If you can't afford to remodel the whole house, you can try a few changes in your home lighting. Lighting design changes can make the whole place look new.

Interior Decorators Know: Cloth Makes a House Into a Home
There are dozens of interior decorating ideas that make use of colored fabrics. The world of woven fibers provides lots of creative interior decoration possibilities.

Holiday Home Decorating: Tacky or Terrific?
A Christmas tree is one thing, but what home decorating advice should you give clients who want St. Patrick's Day rugs?

Shabby Chic Décor Style Hides Your Clutter in Plain Sight
Almost everyone has the "too much junk" problem, but you can make your clutter look elegant with a style called shabby chic décor.

Interior Decorating Tips for a Beautiful Boudoir
One of the things you'll learn in interior decorating school is to make the space fit its use. Here's an interior decorating idea or two that can help you take a step in the right direction.

Not All Home Décor is Permanent
If you get over the feeling that every interior decorating idea must last for years, you'll find changing your home décor can be fun. A temporary bit of interior decorating magic can liven up your home for a special occasion.

What Can You Learn From an Online Interior Design School?
Today's education technology makes it possible to learn important professions right at your own computer desk. There's no doubt about it, some of the best interior design schools are online interior design schools.

Commercial Interior Design Jobs Can Be Scary
When you graduate from interior decorating school you're ready to work. You'll take any interior designer jobs that come your way. What happens if one of your first assignments is a huge commercial interior design project?

Aging-in-Place Trend Helps Fuel Home Remodeling Boom
The fastest-growing segment of the home remodeling industry offers design challenges for designers and builders alike.

Stone at Home: Using Natural Stone in Residential Design
Few elements add more elegance and durability to residential interior design than natural stone.

Your Interior Design Job Search
You've got your interior design degree, but you're still waiting to launch your interior design career. And you're starting to get nervous…Here's help.

Interior Design Jobs: Hospitality Design
Is the first thing you notice about a bistro or boutique its look? Maybe you're a hospitality interior designer at heart.

Interior Design Schools in the Sunshine State
Imagine studying design amid vibrant Latin influences, gorgeous natural gardens, and miles of sun-drenched beaching. Imagine yourself in a Florida interior design college.

The Business of Color
The designer's balancing act: harmonizing market-driven color palettes for home decorating and interior design with individual client tastes and needs.

Interior Design Jobs: Hospitality Design
Is the first thing you notice about a bistro or boutique its look? Maybe you're a hospitality interior designer at heart.

Will Your Interior Design Training Prepare You For Star Wars?
What is an interior design career for the 21st century? If you combine your artistic imagination with your interior design education, you may come up with an answer.

New Home, Smart Home
An emerging trend in new home design, "smart home" technology may be a concept whose time has arrived.

Ready to Do a Hot Interior Design Job with Junk?
An important part of your interior design education is learning how to deal with clutter. If your client can't bear to part with it, you'll have to find a way to use it.

Flowers Are Your Friends For Home Interior Decorating
Flowers are always in season and always right when it comes to home interior decorating. Famous decorator and teacher Lance Filbert talks about flowers and gives some interior decorating tips.

Interior Design
Here a few interior design ideas for celebrity and non-celebrity couples alike.

Interior Design Careers: Retail Design
Retail offers an amazing variety of job options in interior design. See if this challenging career path is right for you.

An Eye for Design
If you are interested in a career in interior design, here are three things you can do right now to prepare yourself for your future.

House Proud
America is currently experiencing an interior decorating boom. Now, more than ever, fine design is within your grasp.

House Design Begins At Home
If you think interior design may be a career for you, start now. Look around your home and study all the elements. Imagine that it is a new home and try to see in your mind's eye how you might design it.

It's Not Junk if You Display It
Your interior design education is just the beginning of your interior design career. You also need the imagination to come up with lots of new ideas.

Some Advice on Decorating Your Home's Interior
You don't have to go to interior decorating school to be able to do a good job on your own home interior decorating. Just go with what you like. You can get you home decorating ideas from a picture in a magazine, from a scene in a movie, or from a friend or relative's home.

The Pillars of Budget Interior Design
Check out the sticker price of some interior design schemes and the financial solvency alarm in your head starts blaring. But it doesn't have to be that way - with some cunning and creativity you can beautifully transform your space, even on a limited budget.

Interior Design Schools Are the Same - But Different
You don't have to go to the New York School of Interior Design to get an interior design education. If you want an interior design career, you can find interior design schools around the country and around the world.

So You Want to Be a… Museum Display Designer
We are hardwired to learn constantly, but few of us enjoy hitting the books and studying. Museums are a great way to meld entertainment and knowledge into a seamless formula. A well designed exhibition can accomplish the same thing that hours in the library could accomplish.

Interior Designer Challenge: Sustainable Design
In addition to "comfortable," "functional," and "beautiful," consumers and interior designers have added "in harmony with the environment" to their list of design requirements.

Say Cheese!
Many of us have dreamed about a successful career in photography. Whether the dream was of shooting photos of famous models in exotic locations, or capturing images of wildlife in their natural habitat, the idea of an exotic photography job approaches mythic proportions.

Is Interior Design a Career for You?
Do friends tell you that you have a good eye for colors, patterns and matching the different elements in a room? If interior decorating is your bag, then maybe all you need is an interior design degree to help get you jump started on a new career, or grow within an existing one.

Interior Design Degree: Unleash Your Creative Side
Turn your artistic ability and ideas into formal designs by earning your interior design degree

Interior Decorating Career Profile
Interiors can look many different ways, but how they work is more important. Designing environments that satisfy needs requires understanding the space’s current and future uses. Interior design consultants are trained to deal with more than the furnishings and finishes...

Interview with an Interior Designer: Meet Oklahoma Christian University Professor Amy Beauchamp
Amy Beauchamp has been teaching students beginning Interior Design at Oklahoma Christian University in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She also runs her own successful Interior Design business. Although she keeps quite a busy schedule, Amy graciously took the time to talk...

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