Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Perception vs. Reality

Like I said in my first blog TV shows  is having a huge impact in the way people perceive what interior designers do. In my opinion everyday HGTV shows makes it harder for us  the interior designers to defend our professionalism. Interior designers have been fighting really hard to get their "Name" instead of getting them confused with the interior decorators. In my opinion I think that every show in HGTV should be canceled or at least they should show the whole process that we have to do to finish every project. I believe that in the future if those shows are still on air we  should call our profession interior architecture because most of the people understand it more when you tell them that you are going to school for interior architecture than interior design. When you tell them interior design they believe all we do is decorate. If now a days we make a survey asking people what do they think interior design is and what interior architecture is. I believe a 89% of the people will answer two things or they either don't know what interior design is or they are going to say that interior design has to do with decorating. In conclusion, I don't believe we can make a should that explains what interior designers do because one job can take up to 3 or more years and there is a lot of process that a camera can not capture.