How multimedia is changing the perception of Interior Design

Now a day’s multimedia has a lot of influence among the people. People believe in everything a commercial has to offer or they believe any information they get from a show. And that’s the main problem of why people don’t know what an interior designer is or what they do. TV shows about interior design have made a drastic change about what it really means. A good example of this is that most of the shows on HGTV have to do with renovations or redesigning a space. In those shows they skip all of the steps an interior designer has to go through in order to finish a project. So for them it's easier to show people what an interior decorator does so it confuses people. That’s the main problem of why people don’t know what interior design is or they either think we are decorators. Instead of confusing people, they should be informing and educating them of how much work an interior designer does and how long a project can last. Interior design is not the same as interior decorating, there are a lot of differences between those two careers. An interior designer has to do detailing, sketching, specification of materials, renderings, and furniture selection. For a better understanding of the definition of what is an interior designer is, here is how the designer Jessica Mann Amato defined it “Design is the expression of the envelope that surrounds you at work, at home, at play, everywhere. It’s creating an experience, an emotion, or a story of your surroundings; helping life’s functions to be pleasing to the senses while organizing you.”