Interior design Vocabulary

Interior Environment

• The physical and psychological atmosphere of a place

• The natural environment of a region

• space one lives, works and plays in each day

• The external features of a building

Interior Design

• Painting and decorating the interior of a building

• Constructing and maintaining the exterior of a building

• planning, designing and supervising the execution of architectural interiors and their furnishings

• Installing and maintaining electrical systems

Interior Designer

• A person who designs the exterior of a building

• An individual who specializes in furniture arrangement

• A professional who creates landscape designs

• licensed person who practices interior design

Programming

• profiling clients and learning their needs, requirements and wants

• Developing software applications

• Troubleshooting computer systems

• Designing user interfaces

Feng Shui

• Ancient Chinese philosophy

• A form of divination

• design concept of Asian decent

• A type of martial art

Conceptual Design Phase

• Developing a plan for implementation

• Creating a detailed outline of the project

• using gathered information to create an illustrated design

• Developing a strategy for success

Punch List

• A list of items to be purchased

• A list of tasks to be completed

• final observation of the completed design to ensure a standard was met

• A list of people to be consulted

Standard

• A set of rules or guidelines that must be followed

• a quality level finishes and furnishings must meet to be finalized

• A measurement of excellence

• A set of criteria that must be met

Floor Plan

• Detailed description of a room or building

• Visual representation of a room or building

• Blueprint of a room or building

• scaled, illustrated representation of a room or building

Traffic Flow

• The number of cars on a highway

• natural path of movement through a room

• The speed of a vehicle

• The amount of time it takes to get from one place to another