We have been having conversation about interior designers and the burdens that reality decorating shows place on clients' expectations, and clients idea of the amount of money that it takes to design a house. There are no shows on television that clearly demonstrate what an Interior Designer does. I don't blame them for not having one; no one would want to watch that hard, boring parts of out job. However, I do blame them for the false presentations they show viewers. These unrealistic shows are putting ideas in our clients' heads that just aren't possible. We cannot make a new, redesigned home overnight. Nonetheless make it within their budget.
Not only are clients being fooled, but us interior designers are being degraded. We are being compared to these shows that make what we do look easy and unimportant. Realistically, we are more than that; we are important, we are needed, and we work hard. What we do doesn't happen in the blink of an eye- we barely get the chance to blink. We don't make a room pretty- we make a room.
I especially like the last comment, "we don't make a room pretty, we make a room". Designers can not make a home overnight, much less a room, even on an unlimited budget, that is pretty unrealistic. It's kinda like models, we could all be size zeros if we all had a dietician and physical trainer available 24/7, but most of us don't, so we are what we are! Design is the same way, we do the very best with what we are given and work hard every day to do that for society.
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