Sustainability in interior design

Abstract

This article explores the idea of sustainability in interior design and the actuality of this term. Therefore, it analyses the various methods used by contemporary interior designers that creates spaces that are not only comfortable and energy-efficient, but also environmentally friendly. Additionally, it presents the impact those relatively new practices have on the environment and not only, since there are so many ways it affects us as well. The problems and issues that interior designers have to deal with while creating sustainable interiors and some causes for why they happen are also explored, because most of the time it is not that interior designers do not want a non-polluted environment, but it is out of lack of knowledge or because the clients desires make it a challenge.