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ok so for school me and my friend did a report on how math is used in interior design. here it is and we need you to tell us if its good or bad. if its bad pleaseeeee tell us whats missing. Math is at Work in Interior Design How is math in interior design? We interview different people and figured out the math is one of the biggest parts for interior design. The first way that math is used in interior design is by finding the different measurements of the room. Interior designers use the following units of measurement; feet, inches, yards (for fabrics) and square footage. When you measure the area of the walls that is when you will use square footage. To find the square footage of a room you need to multiply the length of a wall by the width. We learned this from a person at Heritage Design Concierge who we spoke to on October 9th, 2008. Another way that math is used in interior design is in the plan view. As we learned from Erickson Design Associate on October 9th, 2008, everyone needs room. This would be called proximity. Proximity shows how much space a person needs, it also relates to anthropometric matter. Anthropometric matter is wheter the person is an adult, a kid, or how big they are. You need to know this to find out how much space you need for the person or people who will be living in it. You need to measure the space in the room so you know how to design it so that it is suitable for them to live in it. Most interior designers will have a plan view for the room. The plan view shows how your going to design the room for the person/people. You use math in this by getting good measurements for the room and furniture. This is one of the biggest parts of interior design using measurements. A third way that math is used in interior design is in putting furniture, and other things in the room. First you need to find what furniture your looking for and measure it. Write that down on a piece of paper and bring it back to the room you are designing. Find out if it fits in the room by measuring the area you were going to but it in. You will mostly do that for everything you are putting in there. You are only going to be estimating with the wall paper and floors. They do not require exact measurements. For example, say with the floors you need 233 square feet for the master bedroom, you would get 300 square feet. This is because there might be tricky edges along the way and you would have extra for that because you don’t know how much extra you need. That would be estimating. Now, for fitting in other objects, like window treatments you first of all need to find out how big the window is. After finding out that you need to measure the window treatments you want to make sure they will fit correctly. Find the length and width of the windows using inches. Then it should all be easy to find the right window treatments. Lastly, for the paint on the walls, you will find the square footage of the wall. So say the square footage for the wall is 100 square feet, you would find a paint bucket that can fit a wall for 100 square feet. All in all for interior design you use a lot of math. It is so important when designing a room that you do the calculations correctly. Otherwise everything could go wrong. It may be a little difficult but when you actually learn a lot about interior design, it can be pretty easy. Now we have answered the question, how is math used in interior design?

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1. Quite a few larger interior design firms also now do "virtual walk-thoughs" of thier designs. These are basically 3D CGI movies rendered on computers. THe applications are and software that are used used some of the most complicated mathematics.