Interior Design & Decorating Part-time Course

This inspirational course will give you a thorough understanding of the key concepts and terms used by professional interior designers and decorators (the visual language of design), with an insight into concept boards, colour schemes, soft furnishings, window coverings, styling and more. At the completion of the course, you’ll be able to advise customers on interior design projects, including recommending soft furnishings and design decorations to a project brief. Create concept, mood, colour and materials’ boards with professionalism and graduate with your own professional portfolio to entice future clients or employers.

If you’re passionate about colour, decorating, stylng and design and want to enhance your life or are seeking a career change, Lady Serena’s course can set you on the right path. With more than 30 years of design industry experience, Lady Serena is a leading design trainer that helps you discover your creative potential. With a passion for fashion, colour, styling, decorating and design, Lady Serena not only teaches but is working in the industry.

This course is available part-time.

Lessons are divided over the course time frame.

Sunshine Coast Evening classes are from 6pm to 9.00pm over 14 weeks

Sunshine Coast Day classes are from 9.30am to 12.30pm over 14weeks

Brisbane Saturday classes are from 1.30pm to 4.30pm

Allow approx 3-5 hours a week for homework assignments

No classes are held during the day in school holidays

Class sizes are limited to ensure personal attention.

Sunshine Coast Studio location: 23 Doral Drive, Peregian Springs. Start date Thursday April 19
Brisbane location-Andres Studio:5th floor, 360 Queen St, Brisbane. Start date Saturday April 21

Further details are as follows:
Option 1. Full Payment upfront $2450.00 (save $300.00)
Option 2. Deposit of $300.00 & 14 weekly payments of $175.00 (Total cost $2750.00)

Included in the course are subject comprehensive course handouts, journal binder, a Resene decorating kit, designer decorating fabric and laminate samples for project use. Paint brushes and paints etc. are supplied for use in class. Refreshments are also included.

The training is industry recognised and you will receive a Diploma on the completion.

Course objectives:

Learn how to make colour choices with professional flair Combine colour schemes to identify with lifestyles Find out how personal style preferences effect colour choices. Create mood or story boards to reflect colour and style choices. Balance colour in harmony and learn about the basic elements of residential design. Colour & Styling confidence to create functional spaces. Learn how to use colour as a personal expression of you or your future clients.| Create moods or atmospheres which calm, excite, take you to exotic places, reassure you or even add a bit of drama! Understand the basic principles and application of colour theory. Find out how to be creative with colour schemes as part of a total concept. Make colour choices using guidelines from the colour wheel and understanding of the characteristics of colour. Use colour illusions to change the balance of a room and find out how to maximize and minimize the details in a room. Bring colour to life and be inspired with colour and decorating options to challenge the decorator in you. Discover the endless possibilities of colour coordination to present mood or story boards for clients or for simply planning your own home décor. Begin your own colour and style reference file and your first professional portfolio and you will be surprised at how quickly it all comes together.

Course outline:

1 . Introduction to interior decorating with colour and style, colour psychology, personal colour, the colour wheel, colour harmony, colour themes & colour analysis. Colour confidence.

2. Decorating styles to suit lifestyles. Architectural styles and periods.Analysing your personal style and bring out your inner stylist. Proportional colour exercises. Getting started with Style files.

3. Naturals/ neutrals and how they work. Intro to mood board presentation. Tonal values, colour illusion, combining suitability, light & texture, good & bad design elements

4. Traffic flow. Space planning & furniture placement, decorating tricks from the experts. Balance, harmony, unity.

5. Styling with Accessories & Art. Colour planning. Creating Vignettes Detailing– the finer points and finishing touches. Art, China, Floral Art etc.

6 -7. Window treatments & upholstery. Decorating textiles and their application.

8. Flooring & Ceiling applications. Focus on walls and evaluation. Wall treatments-special effects. Presentation on walls for week 9.

9-10. Elevations/Scale/Plans. Colour and product selection schedules. Feng Shui for interiors.

11-12. Lighting & storage solutions. Property styling (pre-sale make-overs)

13-14. Residential Interiors. Planning effectively. Commercial Interiors-workplace solutions for your design office. Business set-up.Business set-up, quotes, fee structures trade contacts. Marketing your newly acquired talents. Keeping abreast of new products, trade events.