A Registered Interior Designer (RID) in Texas is a professional who has met specific education, experience, and examination requirements set by the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners (TBAE).
This registration ensures that the Interior Designer is qualified to create functional, code-regulated interior spaces while adhering to safety and regulatory standards to stamp and seal drawings. The process typically includes:
Once registered, Interior Designers must comply with continuing education requirements and maintain their registration to practice legally in Texas. This registration signifies a commitment to professionalism, ethical practice, and ongoing professional development.
- Interior Designers’ services include consultations, data gathering, space planning, conceptual design, design development, construction drawings, and specification and procurement of finishes, fixtures, equipment and furniture.
- The construction drawings deal with the fabrication of non-load-bearing elements of interior spaces of buildings. It is typical for the designer to bid the work to contractors and provide project oversight to ensure design intent is accomplished.
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Interior Design training includes the following subjects:
- National, state and local building codes and standards
- Fire Codes
- Accessibility needs of disabled and elderly persons and other special needs groups
- Lighting quality and quantity
- Acoustics and sound transmission
The education and testing of Interior Designers is directed toward the scope of practice in Interior Design. Interior Designers’ knowledge of elements of engineering and architecture is not intended to permit practice of those professions, but rather to provide the Interior Designer with the ability to recognize when it is necessary to engage other appropriate experts in a project.
Interior Design is a specialized profession focused on creating interior environments that promote Health, Safety and Welfare, enhancing the human experience.
Interior Designers use evidence-based methods to analyze and develop creative, technical, and appropriate design solutions.
Interior Designers design code-compliant, accessible, and inclusive interiors that promote well-being and address the complex physical, mental and emotional needs of individuals.
Interior Design focuses on human-centered strategies that consider cultural, demographic, and political influences on society. Interior Designers create resilient, sustainable, and adaptive design solutions, emphasizing technological innovation within interior environments.
Interior Designers contribute to the interior environment with knowledge and skills about space planning; interior building materials and finishes; casework, furniture, furnishings, and equipment; lighting; acoustics; wayfinding; ergonomics and anthropometrics; and human environmental behavior.
Interior Designers analyze, plan, design, document, and manage interior non-structural/non-seismic construction and alteration projects in compliance with applicable building design and construction, fire, life-safety, and energy codes, standards, regulations, and guidelines for the purpose of obtaining a building permit, as allowed by law.
