Why do gay men seem to make the best interior designers?

Question

Most designers on today's television shows do both. They design and decorate. They even go to the extreme of designing and making furniture. I am fully aware of my statement thank you. From all the shows that I have seen, the best designs seem to be those made by gay males.

Answer 1

They are more perceptive about what makes good design than the the average hetero male.

Answer 2

I think you're confusing the term "interior designer" with "interior decorator." These terms are not always interchangeable. Sorry, just thought I'd point that out...

Now, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but there are a number of male decorators who pretend to be gay just to get work. Largely because of the stereotyping of gay males as being "the best" in the field.

Back in the 40's and 50's most women stayed home while husbands went to work. Women were the primary experts in the decorating field. It simply was not acceptable to have another man in the home for days, weeks, sometimes months on end to decorate. During the 60's, 70's and 80's as more and more women entered the workforce, and homosexuality was becoming more acceptable, interior decorating became an acceptable profession for men, but was not considered to be a "mans" job.

Gay men were among the first to enter the field during a time of social changes in our country. Old ideas were still very much on peoples minds while they struggled to accept new ones. Having a man in the house for extended periods was still not wholly acceptable, unless that man posed no threat to the family unity or fed community gossip.

By the 90's, it was commonly accepted that any men in the interior design industry were gay. The sterotype is completely unfounded, and has no merit whatsoever. It is much like saying that since Howard Hughes was crazy, then crazy people must make the best airplanes.

Hope that answers your question.

For the record, I'm a heterosexual interior decorating graduate. However, I took the courses to enrich my own life, and do not work in the field. I would say that the best interior designers AND decorators tend to be people who think outside the box while at the same time following the basic principles of design. Gay, straight, male or female, the best are the ones who take time to listen to their clients, and follow their clients vision rather than their own.

-SD-

Answer 3

I agree a lot with the long answer above. I am a heterosexual man that just happens to have an art back ground that has helped me in many ways to help my wife with the design and decorating of our home. I am able to foresee how thing will look as my wife cannot. But when the final project is done, she is always happy with the results. I am also a professional landscape designer. So whether it's interior or exterior, it's not much different. You are still dealing with colors and textures. And true you do have to think outside of the box....and be a listener.

Answer 4

I don't believe that is true. I will always go for a woman: more common sense, and a better understanding of the working of a family life.
Sounds like a trivial choice, but up to when men will make a choice to live out of the home most of the time, they will lack the experience to efficiently and practically design a HOME, not a house.

Answer 5

because they go on extremes with colors... feminine side for womens taste is simple and sublte

Answer 6

cause they dont have women "riding" their {ask} to do yard work and they start looking at the drapes and stuff!
All pun intended!

Answer 7

who told you?
dont presume!

Answer 8

they have a close affinity to "closets". get it?