• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Interior designers. They act like they’re as qualified as architects or engineers, but they base everything on their gut. And when they fuck up a building they use their lack of real qualifications to absolve themselves of responsibility.

    • DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      It took us three years and nearly $200,000 to unfuck the house we bought after an interior decorator cut out a load-bearing wall and turned an exterior space with strong airflow into an interior space with huge energy-sucking windows.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        Interior Decorator or Interior Designer. They’re very different things.

        • An Interior Decorator decorates spaces and requires no certifications.
        • An Interior Designer does basic designs of Interior spaces (here’s the bedroom and here’s the kitchen) and requires a basic certification.
        • An Architect designs buildings (here’s where the HVAC is going to be and this is what the roof is gonna look like) and requires a higher degree of certification.
        • An Engineer designs the structures that support the building (here’s the engineered I-beam, and you require a drainage pond there, and you need a support column under that wall, and the foundation needs piers this deep) and requires the highest level of certification.
        • A contractor ignores all of these people and fucks shit up