house design careers

my name's aaron harvey and i'm in interior design at warren and mahoney. an interior designer creates spaces, sells ideas, communicates a mood or feeling and that generally tells a storyabout a place or a time and makes you feel a certainway. i think donald judd say it best when he said "design has to work, art does not". in design, it doesn't matter how goodyour idea is, if you can't communicate that to a client and get them to buy

in on it, you might as well have not had the idea. during the research process, you'reessentially trying to capture a mood and a story that willcommunicate to the client, so that they can say, "yes, you're speaking the same language that i'm speaking. i know what you want to do." i'll principally be collecting imagery of interiors, lighting, fabric, stone, ceramic, timber, anything that feels right and communicates the aspirations of the project. you have to be passionate to do this. there are times when you'll be in the office till 10:30pm to get in a presentation finished for a meeting the next morning. but ultimately it's worth when youput something in front of them and their eyes light up and they smile

and you've got it. not everyone gets to do that.