My best friend just finished school for interior design and was telling me about the art and science behind enhancing the interiors of a space. Its inspirational!
That seems like it would be an art form, I love watching shows about it!
Me too!  We would watch HGTV together for hours.  She is really good at it and I didn't realize all that went into it from conceptual development, space planning, site inspections, programming, research, communicating with the stakeholders of a project, construction management, and execution of the design.
I know, it seems kinda straight forward when you watch, but it is much more than that
It is so much more but not everyone is interested in all the extras. They want to make you think that you can do it too. Which I feel like I can make a space pretty but maybe not perfectly.  In the past, interiors were just put together by instinct.  Probbaly didn't go as well as now a days.
Yeah I know what you mean, I can do okay, but not professional tier by any means
Yeah, my friends told me that interior design is separate and distinct from the role of "interior decorator" that so many of us think we are. It made sense.