Feeling inspired and unleashing your creativity is the first step to success so we begin exploring how to have fresh design inspiration on tap.
Creating a tight brief and a clear vision for your room is the foundation of a successful scheme. I share my techniques for mood boarding, measured drawings and sample boards as part of the visualisation process.
With a clear vision of your scheme, a firm plan in place, you can now order and specify with confidence, knowing it will look fabulous, come in on budget and fit the space!
A clear understanding of the design process and how to use it to create successful room schemes.
The confidence to create authentic schemes that are right for you and your room and that makes your house feel like home.
An insight into how to room-scheme like an interior designer without the need for any special software.
The ability to create documents that communicate your design with other members in the family, enable you to brief trades and order furnishings, furniture and finishes.
Gillian Bos
Maria Istrate
Sophia Fish
You are able to just give that little nudge of confidence to embrace our creative side... in a methodical way! I really enjoyed the course xxx ”
📷Welcome!
📝Aims of the course
📥Getting the most from your course and staying on track
🎥Here's what's coming up
📥Your toolkit
📥Your creative space
📷Welcome to finding your inspiration
💻Get inspired
📥Capturing your inspiration
🎥The power of Pinterest
💻Making the most of Pinterest
🎥Getting your eye in
💻Understanding images
📥Pin it to win it!
🎥Remember...Inspiration is everywhere
📷Welcome to creating your brief
📝Aims of the course
📥Write your brief
📥Pin your brief
📷Welcome to planning the elements for your room
📥What goes into your room- a check list
📝Creating a measured survey of your room
💻Choosing your hero colours
🎥How to create a mood board
📥Create your mood board
📥Fantasy room bonus challenge
📷Welcome to finding your inspiration
📥What goes into your room- a check list
📝Creating a measured survey of your room
📈How to do a measured drawing
📥Perfect placement guide
📝Managing your budget
📥Create your product board
🎥Samples and swatches
📥Create your sample board
📈The Creative Process in action
🎥This is not good bye
📥Handy resources
About this course
37 lessons
£295.00
0.5 hours of video content
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Santhi Aripirala
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Maria Istrate
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Christine Rockell
Yes! I’ve designed this course to be done is small bite-sized chunks, so just take your time and enjoy it. There is nothing overtly technical to grapple with but you will be encouraged to explore your creative side!
I’m a serial fixer upper but I’ve got a niggling feeling I could be making life easier for myself by following your design process. Is this course for me?
If you have plenty of experience designing rooms but you feel you’d like to reboot your process, this course offers plenty of creative insight, as well as basic technical know how. If you have any specific questions about the content or value of the course before you sign up, then please just drop me an email and I’d be happy to help you decide if this course would be useful to you, as refunds are not offered. I bet it will though because I’ve learned so much myself from just getting it all mapped out on paper!
You can complete this course even if you don’t have a real life room to work on yet. You can create your own fantasy room and follow the step-by-step guide to practice the skills you’ll need when faced with the real thing.
This course is not designed for people looking to train to do interior design as a business. However, if you are thinking of investing huge sums of money and time in training to be an interior designer, this course could give you an insight to work out if this is the career for you. Training for the professional pathway is a lot harder and more intense, so you’ve been warned! I don’t have any affiliations or personal recommendations for interior design schools, but there are plenty of offerings to research.
This course covers the very basics of what you need to do in order to design a room successfully. It’s based on my own personal process that I’ve devised over many years. It might not be wildly different to your own, but if you’re anything like me, you might be curious to find out how other designers do it, and if you could streamline or invigorate your own process in any way. If so, by all means, sign up!
You can start the course and pause it whenever you wish. This is a self-paced exercise. I appreciate that people will be working on all kinds of different projects at different times and at a different speed. However, I strongly recommend that you complete the course in the order it’s set out, so aim to do that first and then you can revisit any of the chapters if you need to consolidate your learning.
The short answer is No. I’ve worked really hard to make this course as watertight and as comprehensive as possible, and because people will be completing the course in their own time there will not be any live Q&A sessions. The truth is you will likely have questions come up, as this course is not exhaustive in its content, and the realm of interior design expertise is huge. However, when it comes to giving you the framework to do it yourself, The Creative Design Process will empower you to answer your own questions. You will have access to my private Facebook group and join the very useful community of people who are a great resource on there. And don’t forget I give heaps of free interior design advice over on my blog and Instagram account.
In terms of technology, all you need is a phone or camera to take pictures and a device to use Pinterest and Instagram (like your computer, tablet or smart phone). Thinkific is constantly updating in order to improve the platform so in addition to having the latest web browser, there are a few other requirements that will help ensure you experience Thinkific smoothly. Make sure your desktop/device has the the following; Javascript enabled, PDF plugin, Graphic and audio output capability, Broadband internet connection with ideally a minimum speed of 5Mbps and TLS 1.2 supported by your web browser. Thinkific currently supports the last two versions of the following browsers: Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Edge on your desk top and iOS Safari: 11 and up, Chrome and Samsung Internet on mobile devises.
Thank you for asking, but No! When you enroll you get access for one user. I’d be absolutely thrilled if you wanted to recommend the course to your friends and family, but they would need to pay for their own enrolment. The way I make this course so affordable for everyone is by having multiple signups, so please respect that, and while we are here I'd really appreciate that you don't publicly share or publish any of the content. That would be an infringement of copyright. However sharing what you have accomplished during the course is actively encouraged! I can't wait to see those room reveals!
What colours go with grey walls? What wall paint goes with a red sofa? Patterned or plain curtains? Corner sofa or three-piece suite? My answer is the same for all of these questions. You need to go back to the beginning and work through the creative design process step by step.
Enrol in Be your own Interior Designer today and discover the tools and techniques to create a home you can feel proud of, and more importantly, feels like your home and not lifted from Pinterest. Through a series of videos, narrated presentations, helpful downloads and fun assignments, you’ll discover just how easy it is to create a knock out room scheme that will have all your friends oggling and asking how you did it!
An online course that includes 11 informative videos, 12 useful downloads and 6 narrated slide show presentations all organised at a pace that makes each step of the process easy to follow.
All sessions come with lifetime access so you can complete them at your own time and speed, and revisit them whenever you need a refresh.
Homework! But the fun kind. Each chapter gives you an assignment so you can practice what you’ve learned along the way with the option to share with the online community.
Entry to my private Facebook group, only open to people who have enrolled on one of my courses. A VIP club for other interior design fanatics and a great source of support and community.
A clear understanding of the design process and how to use it to create successful room schemes.
The confidence to create authentic schemes that are right for you and your room and that makes your house feel like home.
An insight into how to room-scheme like an interior designer without the need for any special software.
The ability to create documents that communicate your design with other members in the family, enable you to brief trades and order furnishings, furniture and finishes.
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