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5 Books Recommended for Interior Designers

No matter what profession you choose to work in, it is not a one-time thing to achieve success, and interior design is no different. Although experience can make interior designers grow, the professional knowledge in books is also a valuable career wealth for designers. If you want to increase your creativity, interior design knowledge, or understanding of different styles or design rules, books are the best source of information.


Interior design books won’t only enrich your knowledge but will also inspire you. As you read, you will recognize your misunderstandings and mistakes, and you will open up to different perspectives. You understand how design affects how real estate owners feel about their own home and how it can have a huge impact on the well-being of those who inhabit the space.


From projects of top-notch interior designers to practical tips for everyday homeowners, you can find everything you need in books! If you’re searching for something to read next and you would like to get some inspiration, we recommend 5 interior design books, which are ideal to prepare for your next big design project.


1. Thinkertoys


In revised and expanded editions of Thinkertoys, creative expert Michael Michalko reveals the life-changing tools that will help you think like a genius. From linear to intuitive, this comprehensive manual details ingenious creative thinking techniques for detailing with problems in unconventional ways. Through interesting and thought-provoking exercises, you'll learn how to create original ideas that improve your personal and business life. Michalko's technique tells you how to look at the same information like everyone else and see things differently.


As real estate owners have more expectations to their homes, creative thinking becomes more essential for interior designers. We think this book will help you explore your creative thinking.


2. Toward a New Interior: An Anthology of Interior Design Theory


As a relatively young discipline within the academic world of design, has historically been regarded as an extension of other fine arts. Narratives exist, but most people tended to view interior design as a function of architecture or presentation rather than experience. Independent interior design theories hardly existed. Therefore, Professor Lois Weinthal envisions a future where interior design is treated on a par with architectural and industrial design, a future of new interiors. Winthal has thoughtfully created a collection of 48 papers that forms the basis of interior design theory and shapes the future of interior space. Her introductory articles illustrate each of these sources, prior to and guided by a discussion of materials related to interior design theory. Contributions to eight sections of this book include articles by David Batchelor, Aaron Betsky, Petra Blaisse, Andrew Blauvelt, Beatriz Colomina, Le Corbusier, Robin Evans, Adolf Loos, Ellen Lupton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Michel Serres, Henry Urbach, Wim Wenders, and Mark Wigley.


This is an academic book which can help you enhance your interior design theory.


3. Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave


If you like HGTV’s Fixer Upper, where Chip and Joanna innovate houses into aesthetically stunning homes, then this book by Joanna Gaines is what you would like to add to your read-list. In this book, you will find ideas for designing a house with personality appropriate to people who live in it. You can also find practical design tips and tricks for implementing ideas, as well as more details about different design styles.


4. Evocative Style by Kelly Wearstler


Kelly Wearstler is one of the pioneering interior designers, being famous for her bold style and exquisite blending. In the book Evocative Style, Kelly demonstrates her mastery of constructing spaces that tell a story, whether through mixing vintage and contemporary pieces or experimenting with unique textures, patterns, and organic shapes, as well as mixing many periods of furniture. full of vagarious and brilliant ideas of bold color palettes and geometric artwork as she’s pushing boundaries with her creative and extensive modern interior thinking.


5.The Kinfolk Home: A Book for Fulfilling, Slow Living by Nathan Williams


Nathan Williams takes readers into 35 homes around the world, interviewing people about their home designs and styles. He shows how to embrace slow life for benefits like simplifying your life and nurturing community, which helps you to design a beautiful and intimate living space from different perspectives around the world. In this book, the reader is able to explores the awesome interior designs of those homes. Some people have created modern urban homes, while others decided to pursue their traditions.


Interior designers may get inspirations by insightful conversations, artistic aesthetics, and lively photographs of each home tour in this book.


If you’re interested in any books we shared, you can join them in your read-list. Hope they can help you gain creative thinking and design inspirations to create excellent interior designs. Moreover, it’s difficult for your clients or investors to look at interior design sketches and to have a good feel for what the completed home would look like, so as an interior designers, you need 3d interior renderings to present your designs. Our professional team (also known as Videa Vision) creates photo-realistic and affordable renderings. If you have any projects we could help you with, please contact us and we’ll reply to you soon.


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