Interior design should integrate art and technology into daily life, and achieve the harmony of function and form on the basis of existing materials, so as to meet the requirements of human beings for spiritual quality. In contemporary interior design, it is not only necessary to meet people's material and spiritual needs, but also to pay more attention to environmental protection and sustainable development. In contemporary times, sustainable development has become a consensus, in the field of interior design to use some traditional, waste of resources, damage to the environment has been gradually abandoned, and under the sustainable development thinking, people are also paying more and more attention to the design process, how to use resources reasonably, how to protect the environment. At the same time, through sustainable design, it creates a living and working space where man and nature coexist in harmony; The positive meaning of sustainable design is to keep up with the pace of development of the times, use new design technology and decorative materials, and create a living environment that is both high spiritual enjoyment and green environmental protection for people.
It can be seen that green, environmental protection and sustainability are the development requirements of modern interior design technology, which is also the fundamental requirement of sustainable development thinking for social development. In order to achieve the sustainable development of the whole society, contemporary interior design should start from the perspective of design, in accordance with the principle of harmony between man and nature, the design of a sustainable living environment, therefore, sustainable design has gradually become the mainstream trend of the development of the interior design industry in the future.
After hundreds of years of rapid development, human society has achieved great development achievements, and in the future, the human world will continue to be renewed and developed, and people's transformation of nature has brought great damage to the natural environment while meeting their own living and living needs. In this context, we can clearly see that guiding interior design with a sustainable mindset is very necessary for environmental protection work and the sustainable development of society as a whole.