You Might Be Suited for a Career in Architecture and Interior Design if...

By Sarah Clark
Career Colleges Columnist

How do you know if you're cut out for a career in architecture and interior design? If are guilty of the following tells, you’ve got the stuff to launch a creative career in design.

You're more than a casual connoisseur of good architecture and interior design if you...

Subscribe to more than one shelter magazine. You obsessively scrutinize every picture in every issue of Architectural Digest, House & Garden, Dwell, Veranda and a handful of other architecture and interior design publications.

Find something wrong with nearly every space you enter. You can't stop yourself from noticing the wall colors and hangings, window treatments, artwork, floor coverings and architecture of any building you enter. Ideas on how to improve the space are obvious to you, and find it thoroughly distracting to occupy a room that’s poorly designed.

Have been consumed with home interior design since childhood. You spent your summers rearranging your room, organizing your closet, and applying a fresh coat of the trendiest color in home interior design. Okay, maybe your parents didn't allow you to indulge all your creative home design ideas, but you had them nonetheless.

Think Martha Stewart is not the arbiter of taste. You admire her business acumen and work ethic, but recognize that others in the home interior design community possess a great deal more creativity and inventiveness. You look to people like the late Coco Chanel, Frank Gehry, or even artists like Julien Schnabel to challenge and inspire your thinking about architecture and interior design.

Visit great museums and architectural wonders at every opportunity. Design junkies admire great architecture, even on more obscure sites. Your dream vacation involves cities with great ancient and modern architecture, like Paris, Rome, Berlin, New York, and San Francisco. You’re inspired by fine art museums and the magnificent structures that house some of the greatest works of art.

You've considered attending school for home architecture and interior design, but you haven't enrolled in a program yet. What are you waiting for? If you see a little of you in these descriptions, you'd better start pursuing your passion for design soon. Take the first step today—complement your love of design with real training that can take you from design hobbyist to design professional.

About the Author
Sarah Clark is a freelance writer specializing in career development and postsecondary education.

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