Anyone who’s ever tried to hire an interior designer—or any designer for that matter—knows that the process can feel a lot like looking for a needle in a haystack. You spend hours on Google, you ask ...

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Washingtonian’s “Ask a Designer” series takes readers’ home design questions and conundrums directly to the experts—interior designers. Struggling to find the best kid-friendly rug for your mudroom?

Everybody has a design style, Aubrey DeBettignies says, but not everybody knows what it is. She developed a style quiz on her website and blog, thealteredabode.com, that can help you narrow it down.

You may be wondering: What do interior designers do, anyway? And what is an interior designer, exactly? Understanding how a space impacts its inhabitants is the heart of an interior designer’s work.