If you've ever walked into a room, office, or hotel lobby and immediately noticed an array of color, fabric, lighting, and furniture that creatively pleases the eye, you've witnessed the work of an Interior Designer. Interior Decorating is both a science and an art, a business and a profession (Ball 5). A designer uses his or her own creativity and practicality to create a surrounding that is "satisfying, creative and appropriate to human needs" (collegeboard.com). The job of the Interior Designer is to team up with a client to find out their needs and wants for the particular space they want to redecorate. The finished result must "enhance and protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public" (Eureka). By working with such items as wallpaper, furnishings, paint, floor coverings and accessories, the designer can create an environment that is physically, intellectually, and emotionally suitable for their client(s). It must also have a "general social, ethical, economic, and political impact" (collegeboard). To meet these needs the designer must "study the different tastes and living habits of their clients, reflect their personality, and meet important functional requirements" (?, 118).
             Besides the traditional decorating of a home or office, and designer may be called in for numerous other jobs and spaces such as restaurants, schools, hospitals, stores, and government buildings. The purpose of hiring an interior designer for such projects as these is so that they can make the insides of the buildings as functional, beautiful, and meaningful as possible (Ball, xii). The ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) explains that the professional must have "specialized knowledge of interior construction, building codes, equipment, materials and furnishings" and consider "the health, safety, and welfare of the public" an essential part of the job (?, 117). Th...