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I don't see how giving advice on where to put your furniture or what paint color to use has anything to do with spreading germs. Especially if it would be legal to give that advice for free. As I understand it, in Iowa someone with a degree in Interior design can architect a building no taller than 3 stories. I'd agree that you should have to have some sort of credentials to do something like that, but to pick paint color? In the words of the John Stossel - Give me a break!



"Interior Decorators" like to call themselves "interior designers", but true "interior designers" do not like to be called "interior decorators". Technically, "interior design" is a subset/related to architecture. "Interior decorators" don't know much about building materials, and don't use Pantone colors. Interior designers know things like how wide walkways are supposed to be, how many square feet you need per-person (and how to arrange common areas to meet this legal (firecode) requirement), knows where exit signs should go, etc. There is also a significant amount of project management work that Interior designers do, in terms of managing the build out schedules and doing a lot of the technical grunt work in a build out.




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