Career
Interior decorators work with clients and consult on programming through to installation procurement phases. Components selection encompasses concepts, style, colour schemes, space plan layouts, elevations perspective sketches, lighting, furniture, millwork and architectural detailing, floor finishes, wall finishes, kitchen and bathroom design, accessories, and many more design details.
Interior decorators can provide conceptual sketches, computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), generated working and detail drawings, and other design-related essentials to their clients including product specification, as well as cost estimates.
Decorators can also choose from other career avenues including design consultants, home staging, event planning, décor magazines, television work and much more.
Humber graduates have gone on to become interior decorating magazine editors-in-chief, featured magazine interior decorators, TV personalities with their own show, guest TV decorators, newspaper feature article leaders, interior decorating business owners, event planners, managers of decorating retail stores, design consultants both “domestic and international” and buyers to name but a few.
Graduates also work with:
- a variety of residential design firms
- staging experts for real estate
- television/set design
- high end furniture companies as design consultants and product launchers
- event planning firms
- kitchen and bath design centres
- print magazines and online media
- interior decorating and design firms
- new home developers and model home décor
- retail and wholesale showrooms
- detailing experts in millwork companies
- lighting consultants
- specialist designers in carpet, tile and upholstery
- media including magazines, blogs, tweets and other social media