Interior Design Video Statistics

Key takeaways

1. Interior designers’ and design firms’ channels posted 17.2% of YouTube’s 471 most-viewed ‘interior design’, ‘room makeover’ and ‘interior designer’ videos and drew 9.7% of their views, 8.2% without the biggest such channel; designers placed in the U.S. drew 0.2% (our read, Nov 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
2. One MrBeast short held 16.4% of the views of the top ‘room makeover’ results. AI, 3D-render and faceless design-ideas channels drew 20.8% of all views in the sample, and TV, media, entertainment, kids’ and prank channels 27.4%. (Mark Studios) See details
3. Employers had 71,500 wage and salary interior designers in May 2025, at a median annual wage of $67,190; BLS estimates that 26.4% of interior designer jobs are held by the self-employed, against 5.8% of all jobs. (BLS) See details
4. Florida’s licensee file held 2,745 interior designer licences on October 31, 2026: 477 in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties (17.4%), and 14.0% at out-of-state addresses (our count). Florida law exempts all residential interior design from registration (s. 481.229(6)). (Florida DBPR, Florida Legislature, Mark Studios) See details
5. The U.S. had 19,376 private interior design establishments (NAICS 541410) in 2025, 33.6% more than in 2019; full-service residential design brought in 58.5% of the industry’s receipts in 2022. (BLS, Census) See details
6. Arhaus had 142 in-house interior designers at the end of 2025, and Havertys says 33.5% of its 2025 written sales came from consultations with its in-home designers. (SEC filings) See details
7. In NAR’s 2025 Profile of Home Staging, 49% of sellers’ agents said staging reduced time on market and 29% of agents reported a 1% to 10% higher offer; the widely repeated ‘73 percent faster’ comes from a 2011 RESA comparison of homes that had already sat unsold, before and after staging. (NAR, Windermere) See details
8. U.S. colleges reported 5,587 interior design completions in 2023-24, 7.7% fewer than in 2013-14; 2,722 were bachelor’s degrees (our count of IPEDS data). (NCES, Mark Studios) See details

Who makes the most-viewed interior design videos on YouTube?

Interior designers and design firms drew 9.7% of the views of the most-viewed 'interior design', 'room makeover' and 'interior designer' videos on YouTube on November 5, 2026, from 17.2% of the videos (our count). We read YouTube's own view-sorted search results, the top 200 for each of the three searches, through the YouTube Data API, with no country filter. The three lists held 471 unique videos from 322 channels, and the median video had 3,679,974 lifetime views (our count). We sorted every channel by hand from its own title, description and video text. A designer here is any channel whose own text says its owner is an interior designer, decorator or architect-designer, or a design firm, or offers design services, anywhere in the world; 54 channels qualified. Carpenters, modular-kitchen makers and panel installers are counted separately.

The designers' reach is spread thin. Their median video had 2,204,717 views, below the sample's median, and the median designer channel had 80,450 subscribers (our count). The largest, Dear Modern, a feng-shui design consultant, held 17.0% of the designers' views; without it, designers drew 8.2% of the remaining views. Channels that name a firm, a credential or years in practice, rather than only calling themselves designers, drew 6.3% of all views.

No channel among the 322 described itself as a home stager or a virtual-staging service (our count). Entertainment channels carry the biggest share of views largely through one short: MrBeast's 'Extreme Home Makeover!' held 10.0% of all views, and the ten most-viewed videos held 27.7%. Without MrBeast's short, entertainment channels drew 19.4%. The five largest channels held 24.2% of the views. Kids' and family-entertainment channels, many of them staging surprise bedroom makeovers for their children, drew 13.5% of the views (our count).

Do interior designers reach people searching 'room makeover'?

Almost never: interior designers posted 2 of the 199 most-viewed 'room makeover' videos on YouTube on November 5, 2026, while lifestyle and vlog creators posted 45.7% and TV, entertainment and kids' channels drew 42.7% of the views (our count). MrBeast's short alone held 16.4% of that list's views. In the searches for the trade's own words, designers do better: they drew 29.0% of the views in the 'interior designer' list and 23.9% in the 'interior design' list (our count). The two professional lists share 109 videos, but 'interior design' and 'room makeover' share only 7: people looking for a makeover and people looking for design see almost entirely different videos.

The word 'designer' in a title is no sign of a designer behind it. 31 of the 40 videos with 'designer' in the title came from channels that are not run by designers, such as magazines' house tours, a gaming studio and finance podcasts asking what designers earn (our count).

How much of that reach comes from U.S. interior designers?

Very little: designers placed in the United States by their own text or channel country setting drew 0.2% of the views of all 471 videos on November 5, 2026, from 8 videos by 6 channels (our count). Only two of them name a U.S. place in their own text (Southern California and Arizona). India-registered designers and firms, most of them turnkey-interiors companies posting short project clips, posted 10.6% of the videos and drew 5.1% of the views. Across all channels, India-set channels posted 35.7% of the videos, more than U.S.-set channels (30.4%), but U.S.-set channels drew 43.5% of the views.

None of the 54 designer channels named Florida or a Florida place, NCIDQ certification, ASID or IIDA membership, or a state interior design licence in its own channel or sample video text (our regex scan). The credentials the page discusses elsewhere do not show up in what the most-viewed designers say about themselves.

How much of the most-viewed interior design video is AI or 3D-rendered?

Channels that say they use AI, 3D animation, CGI or digital rendering drew 8.7% of the views of the most-viewed interior design, room makeover and interior designer videos on November 5, 2026, from 17 videos (our count). Add the faceless design-ideas channels that show interiors without saying who designed or made them, and the share is 20.8%. In the 'interior design' list on its own, those faceless compilations drew 29.8% of the views and stated AI, 3D or CGI channels 12.8%. We did not judge any video by eye: a channel counts as AI or 3D only when its own text says so.

YouTube's own disclosure did not help. None of the 471 videos carried YouTube's altered or synthetic content field in the API, including the 17 from channels that say they use AI, 3D animation or CGI (our count). In video text, 32 videos mentioned 3D, rendering, CGI or animation and 4 mentioned AI.

How long are the most-viewed interior design videos, and how new?

Short: 49.3% of the most-viewed videos on November 5, 2026 ran 60 seconds or less, and those videos drew 63.0% of the views (our count). Designers lean even shorter, with 67.9% of their videos at 60 seconds or less, most of them from channels set to India; none of the 8 videos by U.S.-placed designers was that short. Carpenters and installers are the shortest of all (92.6% at 60 seconds or less), while design explainers mostly run long. Videos over 20 minutes, mostly family makeover episodes and house tours, made up 14.6% of the sample and drew 7.4% of the views. The sample is recent: 61.8% of the videos were published in 2025 or 2026.

What do the most-viewed interior design videos promise in their titles?

A makeover, mostly: 38.4% of the titles said 'makeover' and those videos drew 54.6% of the views on November 5, 2026, but only 2 of them came from designers (our regex count). Only 8 titles said 'before and after'. Small-space wording (small, tiny, compact, space-saving) appeared in 8.3% of titles, whose videos drew 15.3% of the views; budget or price wording appeared in 7.4% of titles, and 24 videos mentioned IKEA in the title, description or tags. Tips, ideas, rules, guides and mistakes framed 21.7% of titles, and 31 of the 81 designer videos. House tours by title ('Inside ...', house tour, walk-through) were 8.1% of the videos but drew 3.4% of the views.

What do design associations and furniture retailers post on YouTube?

The official YouTube channels of ASID, IIDA, Houzz, eight furnishing retailers and Decorating Den posted 625 videos between November 5, 2025 and November 5, 2026, and the median one had 1,549 views (our count). None of the twelve had a video among the 471 most-viewed search results. We found each channel from a link on the organisation's own site, or by its YouTube handle where the site blocked our reader; we could not confirm a channel for NKBA or RH.

The three Williams-Sonoma brands posted 401 videos in the year, 88.0% of them 60 seconds or less (our count). Havertys had 730,000 subscribers but 35 public videos and no upload since 2025-09-05; Ethan Allen's latest upload was dated 2024-03-06. Subscriber counts are rounded by YouTube, and view counts include views of videos run as ads.

How many interior designers are there in the U.S., and what do they earn?

U.S. employers counted 71,500 wage-and-salary interior designers (SOC 27-1025) in May 2025 (BLS OEWS). Their mean annual wage was $74,540 (BLS OEWS) and the median was $67,190 (BLS OEWS). The lowest-paid tenth earned less than $41,420 (BLS OEWS) and the highest-paid tenth more than $114,140 (BLS OEWS). These figures come from the OEWS employer survey, so they leave out self-employed designers, decorators and firm owners. BLS says OEWS estimates are not built for year-over-year comparison.

Counting every class of worker, BLS's Employment Projections program put the occupation at 97.1 thousand jobs in 2025 (BLS Employment Projections). The household survey (CPS) counted 125 thousand employed people whose main job was interior designer in 2025 (BLS CPS Table 11), and women were 82.8% of them (BLS CPS Table 11). The three counts differ because each survey counts a different thing: payroll jobs, all jobs, and people who name interior design as their main job.

How many interior designers work in Florida and its southeast metros?

Florida employers counted 7,410 wage-and-salary interior designers in May 2025 (BLS OEWS). Florida's location quotient for the occupation was 1.62, so interior designers made up a larger share of jobs there than nationally (BLS OEWS). The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro area (Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties) counted 3,090 (BLS OEWS). The Port St. Lucie metro area (St. Lucie and Martin counties) counted 90 (BLS OEWS). BLS published both metro counts for May 2025 and rates both as less precise than its Florida and national counts.

Florida's mean and median wages for interior designers were below the national figures in May 2025, and so were both southeast Florida metro medians. The Florida and Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach medians were the same published figure. All four rows count payroll jobs only.

Which businesses employ interior designers?

Design firms employ the largest share, and about a quarter of the trade works for itself. BLS's Occupational Outlook Handbook says specialized design services employed 30% of interior designer jobs in 2025, self-employed workers held 26 percent, architectural, engineering and related services 14 percent, and retail trade 12 percent (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook). These shares count all jobs, including the self-employed.

Counting payroll jobs only, OEWS placed 30,100 interior designers in NAICS 5414 Specialized design services in May 2025 (BLS OEWS), 14,030 in architectural, engineering and related services (BLS OEWS) and 6,630 at furniture and home furnishings retailers (BLS OEWS). OEWS does not publish a 541410-only figure for this occupation: 5414 also holds graphic and industrial design firms.

Pay differs by employer. The median annual wage for interior designers in architectural, engineering and related services was $78,340 in May 2025, against $67,870 in specialized design services (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook).

How many interior designers are self-employed, and how fast is the job growing?

BLS estimates that 26.4% of interior designers were self-employed in 2025 (BLS Employment Projections), against 5.8% of all U.S. workers (BLS Employment Projections). That is why payroll surveys such as OEWS and QCEW miss a large part of the trade. BLS projects the occupation to grow 2.7% from 2025 to 2035, with about 7.7 thousand openings a year, mostly to replace designers who change jobs or retire (BLS Employment Projections). BLS lists a bachelor's degree as the typical entry requirement.

The Handbook says licensure rules vary by state: some states let only licensed designers do interior design work, others restrict only the title, and others regulate neither. Where the title is restricted, eligibility for the state-approved exam includes a bachelor's degree in interior design and 2 years of full-time work experience (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook).

What does the interior design services industry include?

Census classifies interior design firms under NAICS 541410 Interior design services (NAICS 2022 manual). The 2022 definition covers establishments that plan, design and administer projects in interior spaces, taking into account building codes, safety rules, floor planning and fittings and furniture, in hospitality, health care, institutional, commercial and residential design. It also includes interior decorating consultants who provide only aesthetic services. The parent group, 5414 Specialized design services, also holds industrial, graphic and other design firms, so any figure published only at 5414 is broader than interior design.

How many interior design firms are there, and how many people do they employ?

BLS's Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages counted an average of 19,376 private establishments in NAICS 541410 in 2025 (BLS QCEW), up from 14,499 in 2019 (BLS QCEW). That is a rise of 33.6% in six years (our calculation). They averaged 56,133 jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW), at an average annual pay of $75,083 (BLS QCEW). QCEW counts only businesses that report jobs under unemployment insurance, so one-person studios without payroll are not in it.

Census's own counts are close but not identical, because each program has its own frame and reference period. County Business Patterns counted 16,797 employer establishments in 2023 (Census CBP), with 55,286 paid employees in mid-March (Census CBP). Most establishments are small: 13,720 of them had fewer than five employees (Census CBP). That is 81.7% of employer establishments (our calculation). The 2022 Economic Census counted 16,844 employer establishments (Census Economic Census), with 61,579 paid employees (Census Economic Census) and $19,704,022 thousand in receipts (Census Economic Census).

How many interior design firms are in Florida and in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties?

Florida averaged 2,358 private interior design establishments in 2025, with 6,323 jobs and average annual pay of $71,276 (BLS QCEW). Palm Beach County had more interior design establishments and jobs than Broward County in 2025.

Together, Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties held 27.8% of Florida's interior design establishments in 2025, with an average of 1,676 jobs (our calculation from BLS QCEW).

The 2022 Economic Census counted 1,985 employer interior design establishments in Florida (Census Economic Census), with $2,122,977 thousand in receipts (Census Economic Census). Florida's share of U.S. interior design receipts was 10.8% (our calculation).

How much interior design work is residential and how much is commercial?

Residential work is the larger share. In the 2022 Economic Census, full-service interior design for residential buildings brought 541410 firms $11,527,746 thousand (Census Economic Census), or 58.5% of the industry's receipts (Census Economic Census). Full-service design for nonresidential buildings, such as offices, hotels and health care, brought $3,934,607 thousand (Census Economic Census). Interior decorating services brought $2,869,835 thousand (Census Economic Census), and design services short of full service, such as consultations, brought $511,894 thousand (Census Economic Census).

Firms in this industry report almost no furniture sales as a separate product line: retail sales of indoor home furniture came to $18,621 thousand, reported by 18 establishments (Census Economic Census). Census does not say how much furniture designers specify and bill inside full-service projects; that money is reported within the design lines.

How many design businesses have no employees?

Census counted 284,294 nonemployer businesses in NAICS 5414 Specialized design services in 2024 (Census Nonemployer Statistics), up from 277,731 in 2023 (Census Nonemployer Statistics). Against the 37,685 employer establishments County Business Patterns counted in NAICS 5414 in 2023, that is 7.4 businesses without employees for every employer establishment (our calculation, same year and code). Nonemployer businesses have no paid staff, file federal income tax and report receipts of at least $1,000; most are sole proprietors. Census does not publish nonemployer counts at 541410, so these figures include graphic, industrial and other independent designers as well as interior designers and decorators. The employer count for the same 5414 group was 37,685 establishments in 2023 (Census CBP).

In every area, design businesses without employees outnumber those with a payroll. In Broward County the order of the two counts flips: it has more 5414 nonemployer businesses and employer establishments than Palm Beach County, while Palm Beach has more 541410 interior design employers.

How many licensed interior designers does Florida have?

Florida's licensee file dated October 31, 2026 lists 2,745 interior designer licences (our count). BLS counted 7,410 wage and salary interior designers in Florida in May 2025, so the file holds about 37 licences for every 100 payroll designers (our calculation; the dates and populations differ, and since 2020 most Florida design work needs no registration). The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) publishes the file for its Board of Architecture and Interior Design; it holds active, inactive and voluntarily inactive licences and leaves out null and void, delinquent and involuntarily inactive ones. Of the 2,745, 2,667 carry the Active status, 2 of those under suspension, and 78 are inactive (our count). These are licences, not people working full time in design.

The same file contains 0 interior design business (IB) records (our count). Its only business type is "Architect Business Information", and those records carry no licence number or expiry date.

DBPR's annual reports do not split interior designers from architects. They give one line for the whole board: 15,312 licensees in fiscal year 2023-24, of which 14,949 were active DBPR. The board total was 17,901 in 2015-16, 17,289 in 2016-17, 18,458 in 2017-18, 17,417 in 2018-19 and 18,736 in 2019-20. It then fell to 13,561 in 2020-21 before reaching 14,762 in 2021-22 and 14,270 in 2022-23 (DBPR annual reports, Table 1).

How many Florida interior designer licences are in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties?

Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties together hold 477 of the interior designer licences in DBPR's October 31, 2026 file, 17.4 percent of the state total (our count). County is the DBPR county code of each licensee's address of record.

Miami-Dade has the most of any county. The full county table is in our published CSV of DBPR aggregates (no names or addresses).

How many Florida interior designer licences belong to people outside Florida?

384 Florida interior designer licences list an address in another U.S. state or abroad, and 7 list no state (our count from the October 31, 2026 DBPR file). That is 14.0 percent of the 2,745 licences. 2,354 list a Florida address. Georgia is the most common out-of-state address, with 52 licences (our count).

How many Florida interior designer licences are recent?

141 of the interior designer licences in DBPR's file were first issued in 2025, more than in any other year (our count). 513 were first issued in 2021 through 2025 (our count). These are survivors: licences issued in a year and later dropped are not in the file, so the counts understate how many were issued. The oldest large group dates from 1990, with 261 licences still in the file (our count).

How many registered interior designers do Louisiana, Texas and Connecticut have?

Louisiana had 438 registered interior designers on April 17, 2024, according to the administrative report in the agenda of the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Interior Designers (LSBID) (LSBID). The board counted 454 licensees in total that day, including 5 interns and 11 emeritus designers. Earlier agendas listed 447 registered interior designers on December 7, 2023 and 418 on February 16, 2024 (LSBID). The board's later agendas we checked, through August 2026, print no counts.

The Texas Board of Architectural Examiners (TBAE) reported a 0.7 percent year-over-year decrease in active registered interior designers as of May 1, 2026 (TBAE 2026 Strategic Plan). The plan does not print the interior designer count itself. TBAE's registrant base across all three professions it regulates, plus firms, was 27,798 at the end of fiscal year 2025.

Connecticut's open licence file lists 124 active interior designer credentials (our count from data.ct.gov, November 5, 2026). 100 of them have a Connecticut address, and another 1,092 credentials in the file are inactive (our count).

How many NCIDQ-certified interior designers are there?

CIDQ, the body that runs the NCIDQ exam and certificate, counted 17,429 active NCIDQ certificate holders worldwide as of November 3, 2025 (CIDQ Annual Report 2025). CIDQ says more than 39,000 people have earned the certificate since it began, a cumulative count that includes people who are no longer active. CIDQ earns its revenue from the exam and certificate renewals, so these are the seller's own counts of its credential. Certificate holders are not the same group as state licensees.

CIDQ's list of new certificate holders from the Spring 2026 exam names 444 people (our count). 39 of them are in Texas and 25 in Florida (our count). The same CIDQ report says 29 states, along with Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, have some form of interior design regulation. That count mixes title acts, practice acts and permitting acts, and CIDQ advocates for regulation.

What are the NCIDQ exam pass rates?

About half of candidates pass the first NCIDQ section. CIDQ reports a 53 percent pass rate on the Fundamentals exam (IDFX) in Spring 2026, 60 percent on the Professional exam (IDPX) and 61 percent on the Practicum (PRAC) (CIDQ). In Spring 2022 the rates were 53, 59 and 54 percent (CIDQ). CIDQ does not publish how many candidates sat each section on this page.

Across the nine sittings from Spring 2022 to Spring 2026, the IDFX pass rate averaged 52.2 percent and never went above 55 percent (our calculation, a simple average not weighted by candidates). The PRAC averaged 63.9 percent over the same sittings, ranging from 54 to 69 percent (our calculation).

Do you need a license to be an interior designer in Florida?

Since the 2020 rewrite of chapter 481, no. The 2026 Florida Statutes say a certificate of registration is not required for anyone whose practice is confined to interior decorator services or to interior design (s. 481.213(8) (Florida Statutes)). Part I of chapter 481 also does not apply at all to interior design or decorating for any residential application, including single-family homes, condominiums and apartments (s. 481.229(6)(a) (Florida Statutes)). What Florida still controls is a title and a seal. Only a registrant may use the title "registered interior designer"; the statute states it "does not restrict the use of the name or title 'interior designer' or 'interior design firm'" (s. 481.223). Knowingly breaking the title or practice prohibitions is a misdemeanor of the first degree (s. 481.223).

The 2019 statutes were a practice act. They barred anyone from practising interior design unless a "registered interior designer" (2019 Florida Statutes), and they protected the plain title "interior designer" too. The 2020 law also left s. 481.219 covering only architecture business organizations, which is consistent with the zero interior design business (IB) records in DBPR's current licensee file.

What does Florida require to become a registered interior designer?

A passing score on the NCIDQ exam. Section 481.209(2) asks only for written proof of passing the qualification examination prescribed by the Council for Interior Design Qualification, or an equivalent exam; anyone licensed and in good standing on July 1, 2020 could convert to registration (s. 481.209). Before 2020 the same subsection set four education-plus-experience routes, from a 5-year programme plus 1 year of experience to a 2-year programme plus 4 years; a 4-year programme needed 2 years of diversified interior design experience (2019 Florida Statutes). Florida-licensed architects qualify for interior design registration for a fee capped at $30 without the exam (s. 481.229)).

Registration matters for permit work. Every drawing, plan or specification a registered interior designer files for public record must carry the designer's signature, seal and sealing date (s. 481.221(3) (Florida Statutes)). Florida defines "interior decorator services" as choosing surface materials, window treatments, wallcoverings, paint, floor coverings, surface-mounted lighting and fixtures, and loose furnishings not regulated by building codes (s. 481.203(9) (Florida Statutes)).

Who regulates interior designers in Florida, and what does registration cost?

The Board of Architecture and Interior Design, inside the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, has 11 members: five architects, three registered interior designers with at least 5 years of practice who are not also architects, and three laypersons (s. 481.205). The statute caps the initial fee for registered interior designers and the biennial renewal fee at $75 each (s. 481.207). The board's rule sets the application and initial registration fee at $30 (Rule 61G1-17.002) and adds a $5.00 unlicensed-activity fee at registration and at every renewal (Rule 61G1-17.002).

How many continuing education hours do Florida interior designers need?

Twenty per two-year cycle. Section 481.215(3) requires at least 20 hours of board-approved continuing education per biennium, each hour at least 50 minutes (s. 481.215), and s. 481.215(5) requires 2 of those hours on the Florida Building Code (s. 481.215). The board's rule splits the 20 hours into 14 hours of health, safety and welfare, 2 hours of Florida Building Code and 4 optional hours (Rule 61G1-21.001). The cycle runs from March 1 of each odd-numbered year to February 28 two years later (Rule 61G1-21.001).

What fines can Florida impose on registered interior designers?

Up to $500 per violation, or $2,500 for a material Florida Building Code violation reported by a local jurisdiction (s. 481.2251)). The same section lists false, deceptive or misleading advertising as a ground for discipline. Under the board's guidelines, misleading advertising by a registered interior designer draws a notice of non-compliance up to a 500-dollar fine on a first offense, and up to $1,000 plus removal from the state registry on a second (Rule 61G1-12.004). The citation schedule fines a registrant $250 for leaving the registration number out of advertising (Rule 61G1-12.005).

Which states and territories restrict who can practise interior design?

Louisiana, Nevada and Puerto Rico have practice laws in the statute texts read for this page, and they differ in what they cover. Louisiana's R.S. 37:3176 says no one other than a registrant may perform interior design, describe a business as "interior design" or use the title interior designer (La. R.S.). Its law still does not apply to anyone who provides decorator services, and architects, engineers, contractors, home builders and home planners are exempt if they avoid the title (R.S. 37:3183 (La. R.S.)). Decorator services include choosing surface materials, window treatments, wall coverings, paint, floor coverings and loose furnishings (R.S. 37:3172(2) (La. R.S.)).

Nevada's chapter 623 bars practising as a registered interior designer without a certificate, but it lets a person exempt under NRS 623.035 solicit business as an interior designer (NRS 623.360). Puerto Rico's Ley Núm. 125 of 1973 gave practitioners 1 year after it took effect; since then no one may practise or offer to practise as a designer-decorator of interiors without a licence (Ley 125-1973). Washington, D.C. also regulates interior designers, but the D.C. Code site disallows AI agents in its robots.txt, so its text is not quoted here.

What do Louisiana and Nevada require of interior designers?

Both rely on the NCIDQ exam. Louisiana's board has seven members, six of them registered interior designers who must hold an NCIDQ certificate (R.S. 37:3173). Its exam routes mirror Florida's old ones; a 4-year programme needs two years of interior design experience (R.S. 37:3177). Registration lasts one year and renewal requires continuing education from the prior year (R.S. 37:3179). The fee cap for licensing and for each annual renewal is one hundred fifty dollars (R.S. 37:3182). False, deceptive or misleading advertising is ground (9) for revoking or suspending a registration (R.S. 37:3181).

Nevada's State Board of Architecture, Interior Design and Residential Design has nine members, two of them registered interior designers (NRS 623.050). An applicant needs at least 2 years of interior design experience, an accredited or equivalent programme and an NCIDQ certificate (NRS 623.192). A first violation is a misdemeanor with a $500 to $1,000 fine; a repeat is a gross misdemeanor with a fine of up to $2,000 (NRS 623.360). On top of that, the board may impose a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation (NRS 623.365).

Which states protect only the title "registered interior designer"?

Texas, Illinois and Connecticut, among the texts read here. Texas Occupations Code chapter 1053 does not apply to a person who avoids a title using the phrase "registered interior designer" (Tex. Occ. Code 1053.002, archived 2021). Its board may adopt the exam of the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (Tex. Occ. Code 1053.154). A registrant with 20 years or more in practice who is 65 or older can take emeritus status (Tex. Occ. Code 1053.156). Advertising that tends to "deceive or defraud the public" is a ground for discipline (Tex. Occ. Code 1053.252).

The Illinois Interior Design Title Act is scheduled for repeal on January 1, 2032 (225 ILCS 310/4). It says nothing in the Act requires a registered interior designer for the interior designing of a "single family residence" (225 ILCS 310/4). Connecticut requires the exam of the National Council for Interior Design Qualifications or an equivalent (Conn. Gen. Stat. 20-377n). It charges an application fee of 190 dollars (Conn. Gen. Stat. 20-377m), requires 4 hours of continuing education every three years and the registration number in every advertisement (Conn. Gen. Stat. 20-377s). A knowing violation carries a fine of up to 500 dollars (Conn. Gen. Stat. 20-377v). Virginia's code site disallows GPTBot in robots.txt, so its registration law is not quoted here.

What does Puerto Rico require of interior designer-decorators?

A licence from a 5-member examining board attached to the Department of State (Ley 125-1973). Candidates must have passed 60 credits of specialised interior design and decoration study (Ley 125-1973). Licences renew every three years, and recertification requires 45 contact hours of continuing education (Ley 125-1973). A violation is a misdemeanor with a fine of at least 100 dollars or one to six months in jail; a repeat offence carries $200 to $500 (Ley 125-1973).

How is the NCIDQ exam structured?

The NCIDQ exam has 3 sections: Fundamentals (IDFX), Implementation (IDIX, formerly Practicum) and Professional (IDPX), according to the Council for Interior Design Qualification, the certification body that writes and sells the exam (CIDQ candidate handbook). CIDQ lists IDIX at 130 questions over 4 hours, and IDFX and IDPX at 115 questions and 3 hours each (CIDQ). Each total includes 15 unscored pre-test questions (CIDQ). Scores run from 200 to 800, and 500 is the passing score (CIDQ). The exam is given 2 times a year, in April and October (CIDQ).

Eligibility rests on education and work hours. CIDQ requires 60 semester (or 90 quarter) credit hours of interior design coursework (CIDQ). Route 1 candidates must pass all three sections within 10 exam administrations (CIDQ). Candidates without the formal education can apply through an Alternative Review Program with at least 8,800 hours, about 5 years, of work experience (CIDQ). The ARP adds a $605 fee on top of the $235 application fee (CIDQ). Certificate holders pay $85 a year to renew (CIDQ).

Do virtually staged listing photos have to be disclosed?

In California, yes, from the law signed on October 10, 2025 (AB 723, Chapter 497, adding Business and Professions Code section 10140.8 (California Legislature)). A broker or salesperson using a digitally altered image in a listing advertisement must say so and link to the "original, unaltered image" (Bus. & Prof. Code 10140.8). The definition covers photo editing software or "artificial intelligence" that adds, removes or changes furniture, fixtures, flooring, walls or paint color (Bus. & Prof. Code 10140.8). Lighting, white balance, cropping and similar adjustments that do not change how the property is represented are excluded.

In Florida, Stellar MLS rules require each virtually staged photo to be labeled "Virtually staged" in its photo description. The public remarks must begin "One or more photo(s) was virtually staged." (Stellar MLS Article 04.04). The same article bans virtual staging of exteriors, except unattached furniture or decor, and bans changing permanent fixtures. Violations bring photo removal and a Level I automatic fine (Stellar MLS). That fine is $100 for a first offense and rises to $1,000 by a fourth (Stellar MLS Article 11.04). Nationally, the National Association of REALTORS, a trade association of agents, binds its members through Standard of Practice 12-10. It bars misleading consumers, "including use of misleading images" (NAR Code of Ethics, effective January 1, 2026).

What federal rules apply to sponsored interior design posts and videos?

The FTC's Endorsement Guides, 16 CFR Part 255, last revised in a notice published July 26, 2023 (eCFR). They apply to any creator, including home and design accounts, though none of the Guides' examples names interior design. A material connection includes payment or "free or discounted products" given to an endorser, and it must be disclosed clearly and conspicuously when the audience would not expect it (16 CFR 255.5). On social media the disclosure should be "unavoidable," and a message that is both seen and heard should carry it in both forms (16 CFR 255.0). Under Example 9, a paid influencer who discloses only on a profile page has not disclosed clearly (16 CFR 255.5). A "paid post" of a video is an endorsement when viewers can identify the brand from the video or a tag, even with no spoken recommendation (16 CFR 255.0).

Do agents say home staging raises the price buyers offer?

Some do, but most do not report a big lift. In the National Association of REALTORS® 2025 Profile of Home Staging, 29% of agents said staging their sellers' homes led to a 1% to 10% increase in the dollar value offered (NAR). On the buyer side, 17% of buyers' agents put the increase at 1% to 5% compared with similar unstaged homes (NAR), and 41% said staging had no impact on the dollar value offered (NAR 2025 report).

NAR is the trade association of real estate agents, and these are agents' opinions, not measured sale prices. NAR invited a random sample of 49,806 active REALTORS® in February 2025 and received 1,266 usable responses, a 2.5% response rate, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.75 percentage points.

• 83% of buyers' agents said staging made it easier for a buyer to picture the property as a future home (NAR).
• 26% of buyers' agents said staging affected most buyers' view of the home; 60% said it affected some buyers but not always, and 12% said it had no effect (NAR).
• Buyers' agents ranked the living room as the most important room to stage, rated very important by 37%, ahead of the primary bedroom (34%) and kitchen (23%) (NAR).

Do agents say staging shortens time on market?

Almost half do. In NAR's 2025 survey, 49% of sellers' agents said staging reduced the time homes spent on the market (NAR). That share combines two answers: 30% said staging slightly decreased time on market (NAR 2025 report) and 19% said it greatly decreased it (NAR 2025 report). In the same survey 17% said staging did not affect time on market, 21% did not know and 4% said it greatly increased it.

How have NAR's staging answers changed since 2017?

Fewer agents report strong effects than in 2017, though the decline was not steady (2021 rose above 2019). The share of buyers' agents reporting a 1% to 5% lift in offers fell in every edition. In 2017, 39% of sellers' agents said staging greatly decreased time on market (NAR 2017); in 2025 the figure was 19%. The share of sellers' agents who staged every listing fell from 38% in 2017 (NAR 2017) to 21% in 2025 (NAR). Each edition is a separate NAR online survey of REALTORS® with 1,266 to 2,347 usable responses.

The 2019 median of $400 covers all staging and is not split by who did the staging, so it does not compare directly with the later service medians. In 2025 the median was $500 when the sellers' agent staged the home personally, against $1,500 for a staging service.

Who stages homes, and which rooms get staged?

Most sellers' agents in NAR's 2025 survey did not stage at all. 51% did not stage before listing but told sellers to declutter or fix property faults (NAR), and a further 15% did not stage. The living room was the room most often staged, by 91% of agents who staged, followed by the primary bedroom (83%) and dining room (69%) (NAR). Asked what they recommend to sellers, 76% of agents named professional photos, behind decluttering (91%), whole-home cleaning (88%) and curb appeal (77%) (NAR 2025 report).

Agents also report pressure from television. 48% of respondents said some buyers expected homes to look like they were staged on TV shows, and 58% said buyers were disappointed by how homes looked compared with TV (NAR). The median respondent, though, put the share of such buyers at zero.

How much do agents say clients value listing video and virtual staging?

Video ranks well below photos, and virtual staging ranks last. In NAR's 2025 survey, 48 percent of buyers' agents said videos for listings were much more or more important to their clients, against 73% for photos and 43% for virtual tours (NAR 2025 report). Among sellers' agents the video figure was 47 percent, against 88% for photos (NAR 2025 report).

• 38 percent of buyers' agents said virtual staging was of less importance to their clients (NAR 2025 report), and 34% of sellers' agents said the same (NAR).
• 8% of sellers' agents said they only virtually stage homes in 2025 (NAR 2025 report), up from 4% in 2023 (NAR 2023).
• Among sellers' agents who hired a staging company, 26% named virtual staging options as a factor in choosing one, behind quality of design (63%) and price (51%) (NAR 2025 report).

Earlier editions are not like-for-like on video. The 2021 edition asked whether listing items had become more important since the COVID-19 pandemic: 74 percent of buyers' agents said so for videos, 83% for photos and 73% for virtual tours (NAR 2021). The 2023 edition's summary text also prints 74 percent for videos (NAR 2023), but the chart on the same page gives videos 19% "much more important" and 25% "more important", which do not add up to 74. Treat the 2023 video figure as unresolved.

The 2023 edition also found that 81% of buyers' agents said staging made it easier for buyers to picture the home as their own (NAR 2023), close to the 2025 figure.

What does the staging association report?

The Real Estate Staging Association (RESA), which sells membership to home stagers, reports much stronger results from a self-selected sample. For Q3 2026 it reported an average sale-to-list ratio of 113% across 114 U.S. homes staged by its members (RESA), an average of 9 days to an accepted offer (RESA) and an average staging investment of $6,521 (RESA). For January to June 2026 the average investment was $4,934 across 233 properties (RESA).

These figures come from stager submissions to RESA's Sold Over List Price Club and Days on Market Club, so homes that sold under list or slowly are largely absent. RESA itself states that the results reflect participating properties and do not establish staging's effect. They are averages, not medians, and are not comparable with NAR's agent-reported medians.

What do peer-reviewed studies find about staging, photos and virtual tours?

The one controlled staging experiment found no price effect. In a 2015 Journal of Housing Research study with 820 usable responses, homeowners each viewed one of six versions of the same virtual home tour, with good, poor or no furniture and neutral or unattractive walls; their stated willingness to pay did not differ significantly across the six versions (Lane, Seiler and Seiler). Good furniture and neutral walls did raise perceived livability, and both homeowners and a separate group of 77 agents wrongly expected staging to change what others would pay.

Listing photos and virtual tours show positive associations with price in sales data. A 2015 Journal of Real Estate Research study of 67,297 single-family sales in the Dallas County, Texas MLS from 2004 to June 2008 found:

• Brokers used MLS virtual tours on about 4% of sold homes and posted an average of 6.22 photos per listing (Allen et al.).
• A virtual tour was associated with a sale price about 4.0% higher (Allen et al.) and a 4.7% higher probability of selling (Allen et al.).
• At the sample's average price and photo count, each listing photo was associated with about 0.56%, or $1,200, of sale price (Allen et al.).

These are associations from one market before smartphone-era listings, when the MLS allowed at most ten photos. They do not isolate staging, and the study did not measure listing video.

How many renovating homeowners hire an interior designer?

About one in twelve. In Houzz's 2026 U.S. Houzz & Home Renovation Trends Study, interior designers were hired by 8% of homeowners who renovated in 2025, the same share as architects and just ahead of kitchen and bath designers (7%) (Houzz). Counting all design-related professionals together (architects, interior designers or decorators, kitchen or bath designers, outdoor and lighting designers), 22% of renovating homeowners hired at least one, unchanged from 2024 (Houzz).

Houzz sells software, leads and advertising to designers and renovation firms, so this is a seller's survey of its own registered users. It was fielded online from January to March 2026 through a Houzz newsletter link, with 20,358 U.S. respondents, 19,375 homeowners and 10,176 homeowners who renovated their primary home in 2025, weighted to the Houzz user base rather than to all U.S. homeowners.

How many homeowners decorate, and what do they buy?

About half. 52% of U.S. homeowners on Houzz said they decorated in 2025, down from 54% in 2024 (Houzz), and 41% planned decorating projects for 2026, down from 44% a year earlier (Houzz).

• Rugs were the decor product renovating homeowners bought most often in 2025, by 48%, just ahead of pillows and throws (47%) (Houzz).
• 39% bought large furniture and 39% bought small furniture, below the 2022 peaks of 50% and 53% (Houzz).

How many people finish interior design programs in the U.S. each year?

U.S. colleges reported 5,587 interior design completions in academic year 2023-24, counting every award level from short certificates to master's degrees (our count of NCES IPEDS data, provisional). The count covers first majors in CIP code 50.0408, Interior Design, at institutions in the 50 states and DC that take part in federal student aid. In 2022-23, the latest year with final data, the total was 5,554 at 235 institutions (our count). These are awards, not people: one student can earn a certificate and a degree in the same year.

The count is lower than ten years earlier. Completions fell 7.7% from 6,053 in 2013-14 to 5,587 in 2023-24 (our calculation). The number of institutions awarding them fell faster. 231 institutions reported at least one interior design completion in 2023-24, down from 353 in 2013-14, a drop of 34.6% (our count).

NCES assigns the code. Its Classification of Instructional Programs lists 50.0408 as Interior Design, a program for "the professional planning, designing, equipping, and furnishing of residential and commercial interior spaces" (NCES CIP 2020). Interior Architecture has its own code, 04.0501, under architecture (NCES CIP 2020). This section counts the two separately.

Which interior design credentials do U.S. students earn?

About half of interior design completions are bachelor's degrees. In 2023-24, U.S. colleges reported 2,722 bachelor's degrees in interior design from 133 institutions, or 48.7% of all completions in the code (our count, provisional IPEDS). Two-year programs come next: 1,497 associate's degrees at 105 institutions. Certificates below the bachelor's level added 1,121 more, 20.1% of the total. Graduate study is small: 225 master's degrees came from 16 institutions (our count).

Women earn most of these awards. They received 91.7% of U.S. interior design completions in 2023-24, 5,123 of 5,587 (our calculation). NCES's own table for 2021-22 shows the same pattern for bachelor's degrees: women earned 2,657 of the 2,962 (NCES Digest table 318.30).

The level matters for accreditation. Since 2004, CIDA and its predecessor FIDER have accredited only programs that offer at least a bachelor's degree (CIDA history). Associate's degrees and certificates, close to half of all completions, sit outside that system.

Are interior design bachelor's degrees rising or falling?

They are falling over the decade. NCES counted 3,290 bachelor's degrees in interior design in 2013-14 (NCES Digest table 318.30). The low point in NCES's Digest series was 2,433 in 2017-18. Counts recovered to 2,962 in 2021-22 (NCES Digest table 318.30), then slipped again to 2,766 in 2022-23 and 2,722 in 2023-24 (our count of the IPEDS data files). Across the decade, interior design bachelor's degrees fell 17.5%, from 3,299 to 2,722 in our first-major count (our calculation). NCES's Digest and our count differ by a few degrees a year because the Digest counts only degree-granting institutions.

Master's degrees in interior design fell too, from 409 in 2013-14 (NCES Digest table 318.30) to 302 in 2021-22 (NCES Digest table 318.30).

How many students study interior architecture instead?

Interior architecture is smaller but growing. U.S. colleges reported 754 interior architecture completions (CIP 04.0501) in 2023-24 at 43 institutions, up 20.8% from 624 in 2013-14 (our count of IPEDS data). NCES's Digest shows the bachelor's count rising from 416 in 2013-14 (NCES Digest table 318.30) to 623 in 2021-22 (NCES Digest table 318.30). Counting both codes together, U.S. colleges reported 6,341 completions at 266 institutions in 2023-24 (our count). Part of the shift may be programs renaming themselves, which the IPEDS counts cannot show.

How many interior design graduates does Florida produce?

Florida colleges reported 317 interior design completions in 2023-24, at 11 institutions (our count of IPEDS data, provisional). That was 5.7% of the U.S. total. The state's count fell 23.4% from 414 at 19 institutions in 2013-14 (our calculation), a steeper drop than the national 7.7%.

Most Florida completions are below the bachelor's level. In 2023-24, 112 bachelor's degrees came from 3 Florida institutions and 94 associate's degrees from 6; the rest were certificates and 10 master's degrees (our count). Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation does not publish its own list of approved interior design programs on its Board of Architecture and Interior Design pages.

CIDA's list shows 4 accredited interior design program listings in Florida on November 5, 2026: three bachelor's programs (Florida State University, Seminole State College of Florida and the University of Florida) and one master's (Florida International University's Master of Interior Architecture) (our count).

How many interior design programs are accredited?

The Council for Interior Design Accreditation, the field's accreditor, says over 170 programs worldwide hold its accreditation (CIDA). CIDA charges programs for accreditation. Its student estimates differ by page: its home page says over 18,000 students (CIDA home page), while its mission page says an estimated 20,000 (CIDA mission page). Neither page gives a date or a method.

Our count of CIDA's list on November 5, 2026 found 146 U.S. program listings in 40 states and Washington DC. Of those, 128 are bachelor's programs, 12 are master's programs and 6 cover both (our count). Texas had the most, 13, followed by New York with 11. The page also carried 15 listings in Canada and 4 in other countries. Including 6 online-delivery repeats of campus programs, it held 171 listings in all (our count). CIDA updates the list twice a year, so decisions announced in November 2026 may not appear yet.

Accreditation has grown over five decades. In 1977, CIDA's predecessor FIDER recorded 27 accredited programs (CIDA history). IPEDS counted 133 institutions awarding interior design bachelor's degrees in 2023-24 (our count). The two counts measure different things, programs against institutions, so one is not a share of the other.

How many in-house designers do furniture retailers report, and how much of their sales do designers drive?

Arhaus reported 142 interior designers in 97 Showrooms at December 31, 2025, up from 130 a year earlier (Arhaus 10-K 2025). The count was 110 at the end of 2023 (Arhaus 10-K 2023) and 54 at the end of 2020 (Arhaus 10-K 2022). That is a 2.6-fold rise in five years (our calculation). These are the company's own staff designers, not trade designers who buy from it. Arhaus had 107 Showrooms in 31 states at the end of 2025, 97 of them with designers (Arhaus 10-K 2025).

Havertys says about 33.5% of its 2025 written sales came from consultations with its in-home designers (Havertys 10-K 2025). Those sales had an average written ticket of $7,781 (Havertys 10-K 2025), against $7,222 in 2024, when designers drove 33.6% (Havertys 10-K 2024). In 2023 the share was 28.5%, with a $6,486 ticket (Havertys 10-K 2023). Written sales are orders placed, not deliveries. Havertys aims for at least one designer serving each store but gives no headcount (Havertys 10-K 2025).

Both companies say design help lifts order size, and both comparisons are their own, without the base figures. Arhaus says clients who use its design services spend over four times a standard order, and about 40% buy again (Arhaus 10-K 2025); its fiscal 2022 report said over three times since 2017 (Arhaus 10-K 2022). Havertys says a customer who uses its free design service generally has an average ticket twice its average (Havertys 10-K 2025).

How many design centers, galleries and design-staffed stores do the big chains run?

Ethan Allen ended fiscal 2026 (June 30, 2026) with 171 retail design centers in North America, 141 of them company-operated, plus 13 abroad (Ethan Allen 10-K 2026). The company says a visitor is greeted not by a salesperson but by an interior designer, and clients can meet designers in the center, at home or by virtual appointment (Ethan Allen 10-K 2026). It gives no designer count; its retail segment had 925 employees (Ethan Allen 10-K 2026).

RH operated 74 RH Galleries at January 31, 2026, plus one RH Interior Design Studio and 14 Waterworks Showrooms (RH 10-K 2025). 39 of its North American galleries were Design Galleries (RH 10-K 2025). RH says the galleries house interior design offices and presentation rooms where its designers work with customers (RH 10-K 2025). It opened its first freestanding Interior Design Studio, in Palm Desert, California, in December 2024 (RH 10-K 2025), and its paid RH Members Program includes complimentary design services (RH 10-K 2025).

Florida held 33 of Havertys' 129 stores at the end of 2025, more than any other state (Havertys 10-K 2025). La-Z-Boy's network had 378 La-Z-Boy Stores in fiscal 2026, 230 of them company-owned (La-Z-Boy 10-K 2026), staffed with sales associates and design service consultants (La-Z-Boy 10-K 2026). Bassett ran 57 company-owned Bassett Home Furnishings stores in a network of 86 (Bassett 10-K 2025).

What do the 10-Ks say about design consultants, trade programs and virtual design?

• Bassett calls its salespeople Design Consultants and bars them from in-home or virtual design work until they finish a design certification program (Bassett 10-K 2025). Its stores offer free in-home or virtual design visits it calls home makeovers (Bassett 10-K 2025). Its wholesale arm reaches a growing number of interior design firms through over 30 independent sales representatives (Bassett 10-K 2025).
• In RH's Trade channel the company works directly with residential interior designers and decorators buying for clients (RH 10-K 2025). RH does not report Trade revenue or member counts.
• Williams-Sonoma says its stores now also serve as design centers (Williams-Sonoma 10-K 2025) and lists design services among its planned investments (Williams-Sonoma 10-K 2025). Its 10-K does not quantify design appointments or trade sales.
• Wayfair's 10-K describes Wayfair Professional in one line, "A one-stop Pro shop", with no count of trade members or trade sales (Wayfair 10-K 2025).
• Hooker Furnishings lists interior designers among the retail channels its furniture sells through, with no sales share (Hooker 10-K 2026). Lovesac's 10-K describes no design service.

How much do furniture retailers spend on advertising?

Wayfair spent the most: $1,425 million in 2025 (Wayfair 10-K 2025), or 11.4% of net revenue, down from 12.4% in 2024 (Wayfair 10-K 2025). Ethan Allen spent $19.5 million in fiscal 2026, 3.4% of net sales (Ethan Allen 10-K 2026), and says the line includes photo and video production (Ethan Allen 10-K 2026). No filer here reports what it spends on video alone. Each figure is the company's own advertising line for its own fiscal year, so years end in different months.

How many Decorating Den Interiors franchises are there, and what does one cost to open?

Decorating Den Interiors had 202 franchised outlets at the end of 2025, down from 211 a year earlier and 226 at the start of 2023, and no company-owned outlets, according to its franchisor's 2026 disclosure document filed in Minnesota (Decorating Den FDD 2026). Its 2025 document showed 235 outlets at the start of 2022 (Decorating Den FDD 2025). Florida had 26 franchised outlets at the end of 2025, the most of any state, down from 30 at the end of 2023 (Decorating Den FDD 2026). The franchisor projected 20 new outlets for 2026 (Decorating Den FDD 2026); that is a projection, and 16 opened in 2025.

The franchisor estimates the initial investment at $51,755 to $73,300, including $39,900 paid to it (Decorating Den FDD 2026), with $4,500 to $7,500 of that for advertising and marketing in the first three months (Decorating Den FDD 2026). Franchisees pay service fees of 9% to 7% of gross sales plus a brand-fund contribution of 4% to 1% (Decorating Den FDD 2026). The National Brand Fund took in $1,053,298 in 2025 and spent 56.5% of it on national advertising (Decorating Den FDD 2026). The franchisor makes no Item 19 earnings claim: its Item 19 reads "We do not make any representations" about franchisee financial performance (Decorating Den FDD 2026). All of these are the franchisor's own figures; no government agency checked them.

How often do annual reports mention interior designers or virtual staging?

12 Form 10-K annual reports filed in 2025 contained "interior designer" or "interior designers", half the 2014 peak of 24 (our count of EDGAR full-text search). They came from RH, Arhaus, Ethan Allen, Hooker Furnishings, Interface, 1stdibs and a handful of others. Over 2001-2025 the phrases appeared in 415 10-K filings (our count) from 158 different companies; Interface, the carpet-tile maker, filed the most (our count). Makers of furniture, fixtures, carpets, appliances and lighting filed 136 of the 415 (our count).

"Virtual staging" is close to absent from annual reports: 8 10-K filings over 2001-2025 used it, from three companies, iGambit, Realogy (now Anywhere Real Estate) and Zillow (our count). "Interior design services" appeared in 119 filings over the period but in only 3 in 2025 (our count). "Design consultants" appeared in 385 filings, but homebuilders and building contractors filed 92 of them, often meaning engineering consultants, against 63 from furniture makers and retailers (our count). These counts are filings returned by the SEC's search tool, not mentions or companies, and a passing mention counts the same as a business description. Havertys says "in-home designers" and Bassett says "Design Consultants", so the interior-designer count misses them.

How big is a typical interior design firm?

Most are very small. In Houzz's 2025 U.S. State of the Industry survey, 82% of interior design firms on Houzz had annual gross revenue under $500,000 in 2024, and 53% had no employees (Houzz). The survey covered 1,537 businesses on Houzz, 355 of them interior designers, and was fielded November 7 to December 15, 2024; Houzz sells software and leads to these firms, so this is a seller's survey of its own users, not a random sample of all U.S. designers.

• 51% of those interior designers finished fewer than 10 projects in 2024, the highest share of the seven groups Houzz surveyed (Houzz).
• They drew 59% of 2024 gross revenue from existing homes, 14% from new custom homes, 7% from new for-sale homes and 20% from commercial work (Houzz).
• Average revenue fell 4.1% in 2024, the largest dip in the design sector; architects reported 2.4% (Houzz).

ASID, a membership association that sells its State of Interior Design report, projects nearly 17,500 U.S. interior design firms in 2025, up 3.4% from 2024 (ASID). It projects payroll at $2.23 billion for 2025 (ASID), says small businesses drive 75% of industry sales, with small-business sales projected at $30.9 billion (ASID), and puts projected sales in California, Florida, New York, Texas and Illinois at more than $15.8 billion (ASID). These are ASID projections, not Census counts; the Census and BLS counts appear elsewhere on this page.

How many interior designers does ASID estimate there are?

ASID's 2024 report estimated nearly 128,800 U.S. interior designers in 2024, employed and self-employed together, with about 55% employed and 45% self-employed (ASID). Its 2025 report relayed a Barnes Report estimate of 56,449 self-employed interior designers, up 3.4% year over year (ASID); Barnes Reports is a private market-research publisher, so this is an estimate, not a government count. ASID's 2024 report also put the average salary across all levels at $69,958 in 2023, without naming the employer data behind it (ASID).

IIDA, another membership association, found in its 2021 compensation survey of over 2,000 U.S. members that those with an NCIDQ, LEED or CID certification reported a median salary $17,000 higher than those without (IIDA). That is a raw gap, not adjusted for experience or role.

What is the biggest business problem interior designers report?

Finding clients. In Houzz's survey of firms on its platform, 43% of interior designers named difficulty finding prospective customers as their top challenge in 2024, ahead of a weak economy (28%) and higher costs (23%) (Houzz 2025 State of the Industry). Interior designers cited it more often than any of the other six groups. 25% of interior designers who reported higher costs named advertising and marketing among the drivers (Houzz).

Houzz's quarterly barometer shows pipelines shortening. Interior designers reported a project backlog of 3.3 weeks at the start of Q4 2026, down from 4.9 weeks a year earlier; architects reported 5.9 weeks (Houzz Pro Industry Barometer). Interior designers' Expected Business Activity Indicator stood at 62 for Q4 2026, where any score over 50 means more firms expect growth than decline (Houzz). That wave was fielded October 2 to 13, 2026, with 998 firms, 375 of them interior designers (Houzz).

What software do interior designers use to show their work?

In 2024, 58% of interior designers on Houzz used drafting or rendering software, against 84% of architects (Houzz). 45% used software for graphic design, presentations or branding (Houzz), 41% for building a website (Houzz) and 25% for marketing, CRM or lead tracking (Houzz).

Moving images remain rare in visualisation. In a November 2024 survey of over 1,000 architects and designers by Chaos, which sells Enscape and V-Ray rendering software, and Architizer, only 26% used animations frequently (Chaos and Architizer). 43% of firms called slow rendering times a major challenge (Chaos), and 11% were already using AI in their visualisation workflow (Chaos). Architects dominate that sample, and 40% of responses came from the U.S.

How many interior designers use AI, and for what?

Close to two in five. In Houzz's 2026 U.S. State of AI survey, 39% of design firms on Houzz used AI for everyday business tasks, up 8 points from a year earlier (Houzz), and 31% were exploring it without yet using it (Houzz). The survey reached 601 U.S. construction and design businesses registered on Houzz in June and July 2026; Houzz sells AI tools in Houzz Pro, so read it as a seller's survey.

In the same Houzz survey, 90% of design firms using AI in sales and marketing used it to make social media content. AI users said it saved them 3.6 hours a week on average (Houzz), which Houzz converts into an estimated $80,000 in annual productivity gains per firm, a Houzz model rather than measured revenue (Houzz).

A second seller's survey gives a lower figure. 1stDibs, a marketplace that sells furnishings to designers, ran 468 online interviews of designers in its Trade 1st Program in July and August 2025 (1stDibs). The share using AI tools tripled to 29% in 2025, from 9% in 2023, and another 20% planned to start (1stDibs); 24% were strongly against AI in their practice (1stDibs). The 1stDibs sample is global and luxury-leaning, and it asked about AI in the design process, so the two surveys do not measure the same thing.

Consumers use AI for the same visual step. In Planner 5D's 2024 survey of 2,626 of its own app users, 3D visualisation and rendering was the top AI use at 61.2% (Planner 5D). Planner 5D sells an AI home-design app, and its users are homeowners and hobbyists, not professionals.

What rooms and projects are designers hired for?

Living rooms and kitchens. Designers in the 1stDibs survey named living rooms (63%) and kitchens (52%) as the most-requested spaces in 2025, up from 55% and 48% in 2022 (1stDibs). On average 36% of the items they sourced for a project were vintage or antique (1stDibs), and 92% reported some negative impact from the tariffs introduced in summer 2025 (1stDibs).

Projects are getting wider. NKBA, a trade association, and the High Point Market Authority surveyed 878 designers, 502 NKBA and 376 HPMA members, for a study released in October 2026 (NKBA). 61 percent of their current residential projects were multi-room or whole-home, and 49% of designers said projects frequently grow beyond the original scope (NKBA). 78% of NKBA designers said the kitchen is the usual starting point (NKBA).

NKBA's 2027 Kitchen Trends Report drew on 830 industry professionals across North America, 62% of them designers (NKBA). Just 27% agreed that ovens with integrated AI will be popular (NKBA). In NKBA's 2026 sustainability survey, designers were almost four times more likely (51%) than clients (13%) to raise sustainability first (NKBA).

IIDA's 2026 Futures Readiness Index scores the built environment's operational readiness for the next decade at 1.8 to 2.6 out of 5, depending on capability area (IIDA). The index synthesises over 1,000 signals; it is not a survey of designers.

What do Pinterest and YouTube say about home decor content?

Both report strong interest in room makeovers and home tours, using their own data. Pinterest's Spring 2026 Trend Report listed searches for "kitchen makeover ideas" up +170% (Pinterest). It said "my room, my rules" searches rose +415% as users moved away from all-white rooms (Pinterest), with "dark cottagecore kitchen" up +915% and "grandma core kitchen" up 545% (Pinterest), and "comfy reading chair small spaces" up +455% (Pinterest). Pinterest publishes growth rates only, not search volumes, so a large percentage can sit on a small base.

Pinterest says its Predicts calls have proven 88% accurate over six years (Pinterest). That is Pinterest grading its own forecasts, and the page does not say how the score is calculated.

On YouTube, the company's Culture & Trends team said in September 2025 that the Mr. Kate channel had earned over 400 million views for its home renovation-related videos, built on before-and-after transformations and time-lapses (YouTube Official Blog). In June 2026 it said the most viewed video on Architectural Digest's channel, an Open Door celebrity home tour, had more than 50M views (YouTube Official Blog). Both are single-channel figures that YouTube chose to highlight, not totals for the home design category.

What do the popular interior design and staging numbers really say?

Four numbers that design and staging pages repeat trace back to narrower sources than the repeats suggest: "staged homes sell 73% (or 87%, or 88%) faster", which comes from the staging trade association's before-and-after counts of its own members' listings; a global interior design market "worth $X billion", which is a paywalled estimate that one publisher moved by tens of billions between editions; "video lifts conversions 80%", which started with one video vendor's client tests in 2009; and "people judge a room in 90 seconds, mostly by colour", which began as a claim about products and people. Each claim below gives the claim as repeated, where it came from, what the original measured, and what to use instead. Older pages were read in Internet Archive captures.

"Staged homes sell 73% faster" (and 87%, 88%, "17% more")

The claim as repeated. Orchard, a home-buying and brokerage company, wrote in May 2023 that according to the Real Estate Staging Association (RESA) "staged homes spend 73% less time on the market than those that aren't staged" (Orchard). First Chair, a room-design app that sells furniture, wrote in June 2026 that staged homes sell 88% faster and for 20% more, naming no source (First Chair), and in the same post credited a "73% faster" figure to "the Home Staging Institute" (First Chair). A 2012 Windermere Real Estate post said data compiled by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development show staged homes sell for about 17 percent more (Windermere). We found no HUD study of staging on hud.gov or huduser.gov, and no original for the 88%-and-20% pairing: both are unsupported.

Where it came from. RESA is the stagers' trade association, and its figures count listings staged by its own members. The earliest form we found is a 2007 RESA study, relayed by Windermere in September 2012: vacant homes unsold for an average of 131 days were taken off the market, staged and relisted, and sold in 42 days, "approximately 68 percent less time on the market" (Windermere). The study was repeated in 2011: homes listed unstaged for an average of 156 days sold 42 days after being relisted staged, "an average of 73 percent less time on the market" (Windermere). For 2012, RESA counted 89 homes that had sat unstaged for an average of 166 days (NAR blog, 2013) and said that sellers who stage before listing "sell 87 percent faster" (NAR blog, 2013). HousingWire printed the same 89 homes as "a 73% decrease", carrying over the 2011 label (HousingWire).

What the original measured. RESA's own 2014 Consumer's Guide shows the design. Its 2013 study followed 63 homes that had sat unstaged for an average of 143 days; once staged they received a first offer in 40 days, "72% less time on the market" (RESA, 2014). A second group of 481 homes staged before listing got a first offer in 23 days (RESA, 2014). The 87% compares those 23 days with the 183 total days of homes that failed unstaged and were then staged: sellers "will sell 87% faster" if they stage first (RESA, 2014). The guide's price-band table gives "88% less" time for 20 homes priced $100K to $299K (RESA, 2014), one possible source of the 88%. None of these is a comparison with homes that were never staged. The "before" figure is a listing that had already failed, the "after" figure is often time to a first offer rather than to sale, and the homes were reported by stagers about their own work. StagedHomes.com, which sells stager training, published its own numbers: 94 percent of homes staged by its accredited stagers sold in 29 days or less (StagedHomes.com on NAR's blog, 2012), and they stayed on the market "83 percent less" (StagedHomes.com on NAR's blog, 2012), with no sample or method given.

How it is described now. A Seattle-area brokerage wrote in May 2026 that RESA's 2021 survey of roughly 4,600 properties found staged homes sold about nine days faster than average, while the 73% headline lives on (PNW Residences). We could not read a 2021 RESA report to confirm that. Opendoor, which buys homes for cash, calls the 73% figure directional because "the sample is stagers reporting on their own work" (Opendoor).

What to use instead. NAR's 2025 Profile of Home Staging, a survey of agents with 1,266 usable responses from a random sample of 49,806 REALTORS in February 2025 (NAR), prints no "percent faster" figure. 30% of sellers' agents said staging slightly decreased time on market (NAR), and 19 percent said it raised the dollar value offered by one to five percent compared with similar homes (NAR). These are agents' opinions, not measured days or prices, but they are a sampled survey with a stated method and nothing like "17% more" or "73% faster".

"The interior design market is worth $X billion"

The claim as repeated. Credence Research, a market-research firm, said in an October 2025 press release that the interior design market was worth USD 145.3 billion in 2024 (Credence Research via PR Newswire). Grand View Research's current report page says USD 185.7 billion in 2025 (Grand View Research), with North America taking 35.1% of revenue (Grand View Research).

Where it came from. These are estimates by firms that sell the full reports; the free pages give no definition, sources or sample. Grand View's own earlier edition, captured in September 2024, put the 2023 market at USD 134.22 billion (Grand View Research, 2024 capture) and forecast USD 175.74 billion by 2030 (Grand View Research, 2024 capture). The 2025 value in the newer edition is higher than the older edition's 2030 forecast, a jump neither edition's stated growth rate (4.1 and 5.4 percent a year) explains. The change is a re-estimate, not growth.

What to use instead. For the United States, the Census Bureau's 2022 Economic Census counts $19,704,022 thousand in receipts at U.S. employer establishments in interior design services (NAICS 541410) in 2022, from firms' own returns. It measures a defined industry in one country and one year. The global "market" figures are not comparable with it or with each other.

"Video lifts conversions 80%"

The claim as repeated. Beverly Boy Productions, a video production company, tells interior designers that promotional videos on landing pages "can achieve as much as 80% higher overall conversions", naming no study (Beverly Boy).

Where it came from. The trail starts with EyeView, which made and tested videos for its clients. A blog post of December 4, 2008 said visitors to eToro's site who viewed EyeView's video were 20% more likely to download the product. That compared viewers with non-viewers, who chose for themselves whether to watch (EyeView, 2009 capture). The first 80% figure we found is in a post of February 10, 2009: viewers of EyeView's videos for UMOO were 80% more likely to become depositing users, the same kind of comparison (EyeView). In November 2009 a TutorVista manager said the first test on one landing page "boosted conversion by over 80 percent" (EyeView). EyeView's case study gave that one A/B test, with the video autoplaying for first-time visitors, as an 86 percent increase (EyeView).

How it changed. EyeView's 2010 white paper said that "in some cases" the boost was over 80% (EyeView white paper). It reported the eToro split test, earlier told as 20%, as almost 32 percent (EyeView white paper). By August 2010 Unbounce, a landing-page software seller, wrote that "a study by eyeviewdigital.com shows that using video on landing pages can increase conversion by 80%" (Unbounce, 2010 capture). That dropped "in some cases" and the single-client scope. The design-marketing repeat above dropped EyeView too.

What to use instead. Unbounce's own August 2021 look at about 35,000 customer landing pages in each of three periods from late 2020 to early 2021 (Unbounce) found that video had a minimal or negative effect on landing page conversion, whatever the page's goal (Unbounce). Its ten industries did not include interior design. A design firm that wants a number for its own site needs its own test: the same page with and without the video, shown to visitors at random.

"People judge a room in 90 seconds, and up to 90% of it is colour"

The claim as repeated. MarketScale's article on colour in interior design says people decide whether they like a design or decor theme within 90 seconds and that "90% of decisions are based solely on shades" (MarketScale). A real estate team's blog applies it to homes for sale: "up to 90% of that assessment is based on color alone" (The Cameron Team).

Where it came from. The earliest peer-reviewed form we found is the abstract of Satyendra Singh's 2006 paper "Impact of color on marketing" in Management Decision: "people make up their minds within 90 seconds of their initial interactions with either people or products", and about 62 to 90 percent of the assessment is based on colour alone (Management Decision abstract via Crossref). The paper is a literature review, not an experiment. Herman Miller, the furniture maker, printed the figure by 2014 as "between 62 and 90 percent" of opinions about a product and credited a study by the Institute of Color Research (Herman Miller). We found no such study: the Internet Archive's captures of ccicolor.com, a colour-sample printer of that name, go back to 1998 but hold no study page.

What the original measured. As stated, it was about products and people, not rooms, and it was a range (62 to 90 percent), not "90%". No study we could read measured how long it takes to judge a room or what share of that judgment is colour. Treat the room version as unsupported.

Every popular claim our research pages trace, 763 in all, is on one page: popular video statistics, fact-checked.

How we built this page

We started from the questions people search for about interior design video statistics and looked for the organization that actually produced each answer. Every figure on this page sits in an evidence ledger with its source, the exact table or paragraph it came from, the measurement period, the population measured, and the date we checked it. This edition holds 533 figures from 60 publishers.

On November 5, 2026, each sourced figure on this page was re-fetched with the fetch cache cleared and matched against the recorded wording: BLS occupation wage estimates (through the BLS data API), Employment Projections, the Occupational Outlook Handbook and the Current Population Survey (bls.gov pages through Internet Archive copies, because bls.gov refuses automated requests), the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; Census County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics and the 2022 Economic Census (through the Census data API) and the 2022 NAICS Manual; NCES Digest tables and program codes; Florida’s interior design statutes and rules (through Cornell’s Legal Information Institute) and the Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s annual reports; Louisiana, Nevada, Texas, Illinois, Connecticut and Puerto Rico statutes; California’s 2025 digitally altered listing image law, NAR’s Code of Ethics and Stellar MLS rules; the Code of Federal Regulations through eCFR; CIDQ’s, CIDA’s, the Texas, Louisiana and Connecticut boards’ own figures; the 10-K filings of RH, Williams-Sonoma, Havertys, Arhaus, Wayfair, Ethan Allen, La-Z-Boy, Bassett, Lovesac and Hooker Furnishings and Decorating Den’s franchise disclosure documents; NAR’s Profiles of Home Staging from 2017 to 2025; Houzz’s, ASID’s, NKBA’s, IIDA’s, 1stDibs’, Chaos’s and Planner 5D’s own survey reports; Pinterest’s and YouTube’s own posts; peer-reviewed studies; and the pages behind each popular claim. Where a site refuses automated requests we read an Internet Archive copy. Our licence counts come from Florida DBPR’s public licensee file and Connecticut’s open licence data, our graduate counts from the IPEDS completions files, our 10-K phrase counts from EDGAR full-text search, and our YouTube figures from the YouTube Data API. We left out TikTok’s pages and Washington DC’s code (robots rules), Zillow’s consumer reports and Houzz’s magazine pages (they refuse automated requests), ASID’s and NKBA’s full reports (member and paid walls), and paywalled market-research reports, which we cite only through their own public summaries.

We only cite the producer: government agencies, regulators, company filings and official posts, and the survey owner's own report. We do not cite statistics roundups, Statista-style aggregators, or salary sites without a public method. We did not bypass paywalls or sign-up forms; where a full report was gated, we used only the figures its publisher states publicly.

Figures marked "our calculation" are arithmetic on the cited numbers, and anyone can reproduce them:

This edition contains no Mark Studios customer data.

Limitations

• Our YouTube read follows YouTube’s ranking. The 471 videos are what YouTube’s search returned for ‘interior design’, ‘room makeover’ and ‘interior designer’ (the top 200 results of each, sorted by views, with no country filter) on November 5, 2026. It is not a census of design video, view counts are lifetime snapshots that include views from ads, and we sorted 322 channels by hand from their public text. We counted a channel as AI or 3D only when its own text said so.
• Job and industry counts miss part of the trade. BLS’s payroll survey leaves out the self-employed, who hold about a quarter of interior designer jobs; the household survey counts more people than the payroll survey; and OEWS is not built for year-to-year comparison. Census publishes businesses without employees only for all specialized design (NAICS 5414), which also holds graphic and industrial designers.
• Licence counts count paperwork, and rules differ. Since 2020 Florida registration is optional for most interior design work, so its licence count is a count of people who chose to register, not of people doing the work. Each state counts and regulates differently, so state totals are not comparable.
• Staging figures are agents’ and stagers’ opinions. NAR’s staging surveys ask agents what they believe staging did; RESA’s figures come from homes stagers chose to report. Neither measures sales against a control group, and the one controlled experiment we found reported no significant price effect.
• Company and association figures are self-reported. Houzz, 1stDibs, Chaos and Planner 5D survey their own users and sell to designers; ASID, NKBA, IIDA, CIDQ and CIDA are membership or credentialing bodies. We give each survey’s sample and dates where the publisher states them.
• 2023-24 graduate counts are provisional. The newest IPEDS completions file has not yet been revised, and our counts use first majors only.

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137. National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA), NKBA 2027 Kitchen Trends Report Signals Shifts in Kitchen Design (2026-10-14). Accessed 2026-11-05.
138. National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA), Designers Value Sustainability – and, Increasingly, So Do Their Clients (2026-08-11). Accessed 2026-11-05.
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155. Grand View Research (market-research firm; sells the full report), Interior Design Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report (2024 edition) (2024). Accessed 2026-11-05.
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158. EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), UMOO - a prime beef example of EyeView's success (2009-02-10). Accessed 2026-11-05.
159. EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), Another video conversion success story (2009-11-10). Accessed 2026-11-05.
160. EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), Case study: TutorVista (2009). Accessed 2026-11-05.
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