It was in 1988 that the company started offering more contemporary designs, and in the early 1990s began providing its clients with interior design services including assistance with choosing everything from color and lighting, to art and accessories.

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Florida for years required anyone marketing their services as "interior design" to get a license that called for six years of education and apprenticeship and a two-day exam.

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If planning is approved jobs would become available in sales, interior design, IT, food, warehousing and customer services, the company said.

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The interior-design profession is regulated because the designers provide services that carry substantial risk of harm if performed by unqualified people.

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