interior design is about designing layouts and flow of a room or area. It looks at principles such as your daily routine in a room, how much time you spend there, making things easily accessible and in a logical place, looking at lighting, and ultimately creating the most usable space in a given area. Interior decoration is about dressing an area and making it look good, this is where colour, texture and accessorising comes in. An interior decorator will recommend cushions, an interior designer won't (in the technical sense anyway). Interior design can be very broad ranging from houses to airport terminals. Many interior decorators offer interior design too, but in the academic and qualification sense, if you were to do a course for example at KLC, they are treated as two very different disciplines.

Hi there, you probably have enough now to look at but in case you can handle helping with ideas on another project I have a remodel project to get off the ground...here's a thread about it https://www.houzz.co.uk/discussions/1696623/help-with-ground-floor-remodel-uk Still Struggling to get started but need to soon! Before the c.1989 kitchen comes back in fashion...or falls apart completely!

Hi Nikiklee, To answer your originally question this is a link to an article from the telegraph with the top 10 best interior design blogs which you may find helpful. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/interiors/alison-cork/top-10-interior-bloggers-uk/ Just make sure when you are taking advise from a post, that the person is qualified to give advise and always seek advise from a professional if you are unsure where to go. Houzz is a great place to get this advise. We have a blog which tries to help with exactly these questions (often asked by our clients directly). http://www.createperfect.co.uk/blog  If you have any particular questions, I am always keen on hearing what people want to know so please get in touch. All the best, Gina P.S I have used window film and find that really depends on the brand that you use but it can be a great way to get what you want to achieve.

Thank you for taking a look at my post, I’m an interior design student from the University of Raffles, Sri Lanka. For the subject “entrepreneurship for creative industries” I have to come up with the business model and I have chosen to export Sri Lankan made furniture to the UK. If you are an interior designer, an architect or someone who designs spaces, I would be very grateful, if you could fill in this small questionnaire for me. Thank you so much in advance Please follow the like here- https://forms.gle/oifrNco1u3QsXYtz7