Top Interior Design Terms You Need to Know

Are you confused with the terms used by your interior designer?? It might seem confusing for a while but once you know the concept behind it, it will be easy. Some of these are unfamiliar with day-to-day lives, hence it gives a bigger expression while communicating with a professional.

With the discussion with HSAA: Best Interior Designer in India team, they revealed some of the technical terms about interiors, which you can read in further articles. The meaning of the industry-used jargon is also mentioned in the article. These Interior design terms are also used on specific occasions to make a better understanding of the work.

These concepts are greatly used inside the industry for a viable way to discuss among professionals.

So here are some insights about interior design practices and how it applies in the plan.

For Design Concept:

• Advancing Colors: A surface is attained to appear closer or larger than it is, often created by dark colors. This optical illusion is known as advancing colors.
• Contrast: A common interior design terminology. This is achieved by using opposite textures, like light and dark colors in the same plane, in terms of objects, glass, and wood.
• Curated: In designing, curated means when a designer sets up an entire collection of the furnishings. Most of the time, designers use their style to reflect in the collection. Some have traditions aligned with history, some show very up-to-date contemporary ones.
• Elevated: In this Interior Design terms, designers express the level of style in a more modified way. The plan improves from the earlier design and is hence called elevated. The new level of style demonstrates the professionals' expertise in a very impressive way.
• Layered: To make layering in a plan with arts, furnishings, and artifacts which add design elements in the form of layers. For example, flooring, window treatments, furniture, and accessories, add layers by layers into the Interior Design.
• Open concept: One of the most popular phrases to describe an open floor plan where the design is made to look very modern, organized, with accommodating characteristics. Most common is the kitchen-living room experience where the spaces are adjoined and made look bigger with the design plan.
• Rhythm: Most common term to show the blending of design altogether. A flow in the plan generated a rhythm. There is no visual obstruction rather it is a non-ending design from the patterns, colors, textures, and some contrasting even to match other elements.
• Textured: A famous term used to describe a room, place, or even an object that is visually appealing and has tactile. Most commonly known for fabrics, colors, patterns in a decor.
• Well-appointed: A space is mostly called well-appointed when every little space is designed very astonishingly in all elements. High-end furnishings and outstanding execution of all the objects are done to achieve a well-appointed room.

For Furnishings and Accessories:

Certain Interior Designing terminology is used to describe the style of furniture among the professionals.

• Wainscoting: A coming design seen in residential and commercial areas where wood paneling is done. In terms of furnishings, it is applied underneath a chair rail. It is done to protect the item from damage.
• Girandoles [jirəndōl]: Ornamental candle holders, mostly seen attached to both sides of a decorative mirror. The dangling ornate with large central stone surrounded by smaller ones are girandoles. It is different than a chandelier.
• Frazada: Mostly a throw blanket but it is a colorful one from Peru or Bolivia. It is a trendy item to add value to the furniture associated with a bed or a sofa.
• Étagère: In Interior Design term used for furniture which can also be a wall unit that sets on the floor. It has open shelving and is mostly used for displaying objects or any artifacts.
• Chifferobe: Pronounce as shif-rohb A piece of furniture used for hanging clothes and also contained drawers. It can be confused with an Étagère whereas Étagère doesn’t have any drawers attached with it.
• Cabriole leg: A traditional designer of the chair or table leg, mostly seen in a traditional theme plan. The top curve is subtle convex while the second lower curve bows and tapers inward to a rounded wooden pad which looks very rich in design and very elegant.
• Bobeche: Pronounce as bah-besh This is the protective ring that encircles a candle to catch the wax. Another form is used to suspend prisms or crystals from it.
• Bauhaus: A traditional and famous pre-Nazi German school of modern design, which has been used in the architecture plans back from 1919 to 1933. It can also be seen in many Arts forms. Ithaca has also been referred to in the Bauhaus movement. Currently, the modern plans it has been associated with many themes.
• Barcelona chair: Very common and has been seen in many design plans. The chair is designed by Ludwig Mies van ver Rohe and Lilly Reich in 1929. It was mostly designed for the German Pavilion hosted by Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. In that exposition, 20 other countries have participated.

Design Acronyms:

The following acronyms are vastly used in the Interior design teams. The professional interior designers may not use layman’s terms for regular consultation, therefore, stay prepared.

AFF: Above Finished Floor. It is used as a reference point of the roof with the electrical outlets in the construction and designing industry.

CFA: Cutting for approval. It is a request made by the professional to the vendor for obtaining fabric samples. This gives the designer a chance to check the original fabric before actually using it.

COM: It is an Interior design term used but for the customer’s material. The designer provides the customer the liability to choose a different fabric than the manufacturer. Or if needed furniture, to any textile which can be custom made.

KD: Knockdown. It refers to any furniture which needs to be assembled further.

RID: Registered Interior Designer credential.

Interior designer slags:

This industry also uses its special lingo. Commonly used slang terms include—

Case goods: A popular phrase used by professionals in the industry when furniture used isn’t upholstered.

Chiner: A famous French expression meaning when shopping for a resale to re-purpose or re-invent furniture.

Decorina: A most used pet word for professionals or decorators.

Next time when you hear something similar, you will have somewhat knowledge about Interior Design terminologies.