Interior Design

Interior design is the discipline of shaping interior spaces to be both functional and beautiful, creating environments that support the ways people want to live, work, learn, and be entertained. It requires an understanding of proportion, light, material, and colour alongside the practical knowledge of how spaces must function and what constraints they operate within. Interior designers work across domestic, commercial, hospitality, retail, and cultural settings, and the best practice in each requires a distinct combination of creative and technical competence.

At Chester this three-year full-time degree develops your design thinking and making skills through a studio-based curriculum, taking you from foundational design principles through to complex professional briefs. You will learn to develop and communicate ideas through drawing, models, and digital tools, to select and specify materials and finishes, and to understand the regulatory and structural context that shapes what designers can do. A year abroad is available within the programme, giving you the opportunity to experience interior design culture in a different national context, which can be a significant stimulus to your creative development.

Chester's campus environment and its connections to professional practice in the North West support a programme focused on practical as well as academic outcomes.

Interior design graduates work across residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, and events sectors. Private practice, employment with architectural firms, work for hotel groups and property developers, and freelance work are all common career paths. Some graduates specialise in exhibition design, retail environments, or set design.

The year abroad experience can open connections to international design practice and studios. Postgraduate study in interior architecture, spatial design, or a related field is available for those who want to develop their practice at a more advanced level or pursue research.