Interior Design Reference & Specification Book : Everything Interior Designers Need to Know Every Day

• Fundamentals: Provides a step-by-step overview of an interior project, describing the scope of professional services, the project schedule, and the design and presentation tools used by designers.
• Space: Examines ways of composing rooms as spatial environments while speaking to functional and life-safety concerns.
• Surface: Identifies options in color, material, texture, and pattern, while addressing maintenance and performance issues.
• Environments: Looks at aspects of interior design that help create a specific mood or character, such as natural and artificial lighting, sound, and smell.
• Elements: Describes the selection and specification of furniture and fixtures, as well as other components essential to an interior environment, such as artwork and accessories.
• Resources: Gathers a wealth of useful data, from sustainability guidelines to online sources for interiors-related research.

Mimi Love received a professional degree in architecture from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. She was the project coordinator for the renovation and expansion of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. She is currently a principal at Utile, Inc. (http://www.utiledesign.com) in Boston, MA, focusing on interior renovation projects.