Understand simple rules to ensure your rooms are balanced and perfectly proportioned. This includes choosing and applying colour, texture and pattern to create the perfect mood and feel within your home.

An introduction to wall and floor finishes, understanding the materials available to you and how these can be applied. Sourcing and designing the best window treatments and beautiful soft furnishings will also give you the confidence to bring your design schemes together within your home.

This provides an introduction to the wide range of furniture and accessories you can choose from, giving you the confidence to make your own selections based on your individual style, taste and budget. It will also show you how to make a statement with furniture and how to combine form and function with furniture and accessories.

Designed to bring together all the knowledge and skills you have gained during the course. A practical design project giving you the opportunity to redesign a room within your own home, making it both exciting and creative.

This can be a complete concept idea or a design that you actually intend to undertake in the future.

Within this section you will be given a step by step guide on how to approach your own design, as well as how you can present your information.