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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.
The producers of these shows don't care that they are destroying the little reputation we have left, they only care about ratings and money. By having a show that accurately portrays what us interior designers do, no one would sit and watch us sit for hours to develop the final project; they only want to see the final project, not ho we get there. They need to either get rid of the shows all together, change the intent of the show, or change the names from "interior designer" to "decorator".
ReplyDeleteI think that if the tv shows would show how long it takes for us to design and make everything right that the viewers would appreciate all of the work we put in. Instead of "false advertising" the industry if we showed what really happens everyone would be a lot happier.
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