It is seldom that talent has ever beaten skill.
This goes true for everything - from sports like boxing and tennis, to the arts like public speaking, music, and painting, and even as far as the technical sciences like being a mechanic or electrician.
As this seems to be true for so many fields of different practices all over the world, so should this be also true to the field of interior designers.
A person who seeks to design the interiors of his house based merely on his personal tastes, preferences, and intuition, would yield a less pleasing (although not necessarily disgusting) result.
On the other hand, people who decided to spend part of their money to hire a licensed interior designer would be more or less very satisfied with the appearance of his home.
This is because interior designers have gained specialized knowledge of aesthetics and efficiency into their conscious awareness through their education.
Although we could also gain such knowledge, attempting such, when it is not our chosen field of work and passion, would give us much frustration and take a lot of our time, energy, and resources.
One example is that of a person who merely relies on his knowledge about the meaning of colors.
He would probably decide to use red as the color of his living room because he wanted his place to become a very active and passionate area.
However, once he is done painting the walls red, he noticed something.
That his living room felt very narrow and his newly acquainted visitors find it quite intimidating.
After knowing this, he decided to return the color of his living room's walls from red, back to white.
What a waste of resource would that be? This happened because he does not know something that interior designers do know: that the color of red induces an illusion of space, in such a way that it wide amounts, red creates a feeling of narrow spacing.
Had he hire an interior designer to help him in his attempt to get the ambiance he was looking for, he would have had a better use of his resources.
Another case would that be of a person attempting to design his newly hired commercial space for his restaurant.
Knowing that he lacks knowledge about the correlation of the design of space and sales, he wisely decided to hire several interior designers to help him out with his newly founded restaurant.
The lightings of the dining area were filled with the proper incandescent bulbs, his workspace is placed with fluorescent lights, and every tool and counters were placed in the best possible design, ergonomically and aesthetically.
The results were spectacular, not only on the dining place for the customers but also for the working space of his employees, which lead to a high-earning restaurant.
Had he simply rely on his belief that less spending would yield more profits; he could have simply placed fluorescent lights all over the place.
This would make his dining area unattractive and his profits, unremarkable.