What tools use the interior designers?

The artistic capacity,color sense and creativity are some of intangible toolsused by the interior decorators.Also important are the real tools ,used by the designers, i.e. the tools of the trade.

Drawing tools

The drawing tools for make plans of room designs are pencil, ruler, compass, protractor and squared paper.The design program (CAD) converts the first sketches and measurements into 3D plan for the designer and the client.

Color wheel

In the color wheel are presented the relations between the primary, secondary and tertiary colors.The wheel helps designers to create schemes of nice colors,based on combination of complementary and analogues colors.

Color swatch

Paint manufacturers produce card sets or strip paint colors for each of their lines. Interior designers use these swatches to select colors and coordinate room paint colors in fabric, furniture and accessories.

Samples of cloth

As the  paint manufacturers, fabric companies offer designers books and samples to promote new products. Small samples streamline the selection of fabrics. These tools also help the designer in developing the color palette of a room.

Metric tape

The interior designers use the metric tape to verify and calculate the dimentions of the interior and mobile spaces.The rigid tapes serve to measure straight lengths,while the fabric tape calcule curved and angled surfaces.

Digital cameras

The digital cameras create visual register of the of workstations, furniture and accessories.The interior designers can donwload the photos in CAD program and integrate it in design plans.

The interior design in the history

Ancient  history
The interior design seems to have played a role in ancient Rome, where the wealthy citizens designed rooms for the summer or winter, depending on the appearance and construction. Summer rooms were cool and comfortable for hot days, and the winter rooms were designed to be cozy. In ancient Egypt the interior design is most notably used in their pyramids. The interior of the pyramids was designed to be functional for the deceased in its life after death.

The Renaissance
The artistic renaissance that characterized this period, caused increasing interest in the interior design,especially for the wealthy persons.The architects, artists and artisans became more ambitious as the members of the nobility were trying to build great homes.The increased trade meant that more materials were available.The Renaissance marked the origin of modern interior design.Althought the projects of the interior design on a large scale were confined to the rulers and nobles,many members of the upper middle class took ideas for use in their dwellings.

The Colonial period 

The interior design became useful on a large scale during the colonial period when Europeans began to settle in newly discovered regions, including the Americas. Confronted with nomadic settlements and challenges existing for accepting goods from faraway places, villagers became their own interior designers, building minimalist homes filling the basic needs of survival and learning to build their own furniture and decorations.

The Industrial Revolution 

The Industrial Revolution made interior design accessible to more and more people through the creation of cheaper goods available, and doing the  home improvements projects more affordable. Magazines and books on home decorating also became popular, and technological advances allowed people to have free time.



Modern interior design 

After the Industrial Revolution came the advent of professional interior decorator. These professionals living designing interior spaces in homes and public buildings. One of the first professional Interior designers was Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a Scottish,  whose pieces of "Art Nouveau" exaggerated achieved great popularity in the early 20th century.

Few words about the interior design

The interior design ,the art to create beautiful and useful interiors, exist since the people have homes.
Althought people use the termins "interior design" and "interior decoration" alike, they have different meanings.

 The interior decorators focus on realising the area in an existing space,including the painting and the furniture.

But the interior designers look at the area as a whole ,from its function to the acoustic, including the decorations of the place.