Resources on Interior Design

Redesigning Your Home
Is your home ready for a redesign? You're not sure? You're not sure what a redesign is? Then click on Questions and prepare to be educated. Redesign is creatively designing spaces using primarily what you already have, or blending the old with the new, or putting a new room together to accentuate the warmth, beauty, and function of the space. If you want to make your old room feel like new without buying all new furniture then this site is what you are looking for. Learn how redesigning saves money over redecorating, and how the creative placement and clever use of art, accessories and lighting can give a dull and drab room a whole new lease on life. Learn how redesigning allows you to keep the style you like while enhancing it and making it come to life all over again. If redesign sounds like the kind of home make-over you have in mind, then this site should be your first stop.

Interior Design Schools and Colleges
If you've ever dreamed of a career in design but you didn't know where to start, this site has a list of the best design schools and colleges in the nation. Search their data base and read school and curriculum descriptions to help you choose the school that's best for you in the area that you want. According to this site: Interior design schools and colleges can prepare you for a job as an interior decorator, designer or manager. Interior decorators and designers usually work for design or architectural firms, department stores and home furnishing stores, or hotel and restaurant chains. Many also do freelance work, full-time or part-time. Rising demand for professional design of private homes, offices, stores, and restaurants is expected to spur job growth for interior decorators. The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that jobs for Interior Decorators will increase by as much as 35% through the year 2008.

Journal of Interior Design
Journal of Interior Design is a scholarly, refereed publication dedicated to issues related to the design of the interior environment. Original papers that represent the entire spectrum of Interior Design theory, research, education, and practice are invited. Submissions are encouraged from educators, designers, anthropologists, architects, historians, psychologists, sociologists, or others interested in interior design. This site offers submission guidelines and information about publishing material into this journal.

Foundation for Interior Design Education Research
This is the website for the Foundation for Interior Design Education Research (FIDER). FIDER provides the foundation for excellence in the interior design profession by setting standards for education and accrediting academic programs that meet those standards. Features accredited interior design programs and more information about interior design education. The organization was established in 1970. The founding organizations were the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC), the American Institute of Interior Designers (AID), and the National Society of Interior Designers (NSID). AID and NSID merged in 1975 to form the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). The intent of the founders was to promote excellence by developing standards for interior design education and to acknowledge the increasing demands of an emerging profession.