According to Voursney (1971) furniture designing industry can be expressed as enigma. On the one hand, it is limited and constrained by complex and what appear to be outdated economic regulations. Yet on the other hand, it is and industry characterised by rapid change, innovation and new technology. It is dynamic growth industry, but achieves only marginal profitability. In short, it is an industry of contradictions.

Doganis (2006) argues that during resent period, furniture designing business had to deal not only with many adverse external shocks but also with dynamic and potentially destabilising internal developments. Continued liberalization and open skies”, the impact of global alliances, mergers, new low-cost, no-frills on-line services and product selling and distribution are just some of the crucial developments that have significant impact on the Furniture designing business. In response, furniture design business had to develop new policies and strategies for the twenty-first century.

Characteristics of interior design business

Types of Interior Designers

There are types of interior designer because interior designing is multi facet-business. A person can either work as a production driven designer or can work as a furniture design consultant.

The product driven designer work is more complex than the design consultant because he has to do lots of conceptualizing work of look of the given space with the creativity of mind. Variety of products can be used to fill the given space. A fresh designer has to do the similar kind of task. Mostly these kinds of designers produce different types of products and give their clients a free design advice as if required by the customers (Jackson, Susan and Randall (2000). Most of the designer gives the advice service regarding the design of the products free of cost up to some hours when time is exceeded beyond that limit thy charged for per hour fee. A product driven designer also gives the advice to their clients even if customers do not want to buy from them but they charged higher fees from those customers. The major portion of the income of the product driven designers consist on the product sales income.

Furniture design consultants don’t deal in the sale of the product, t