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Chapter One
Room by Room
How to Style Rooms in Your Home
Creative Challenge
Choose a Room
Chapter Two
Inspirational Styles
How to Choose a Style
Creative Challenge
Create a Style Mood Board
Chapter Three
Confidence with Colour
How to Choose Colours for Your Home
Creative Challenge
Choose One Colour
Chapter Four
Lighting your Home
How to Use Lighting to Enhance Your Home
Creative Challenge
A Lighting Collage
Chapter Five
Fabulous Flooring
How to Choose Flooring for Your Home
Creative Challenge
Flooring Image or Sourced Sample
Chapter Six
Wonderful Walls
How to Choose Wall Coverings for Your Home
Creative Challenge
Illusion of Space
Chapter Seven
Window Styling
How to Choose Window Dressings for Your Home
Creative Challenge
Choosing a Window Treatment and Fabric Sample
Chapter Eight
Adding Accessories
How to Use Accessories to Style Your Home
Creative Challenge
An Accessory to Inspire a Scheme
Chapter Nine
Your Own Project
How to Plan Your own Home Styling Project
Chapter Ten
Your Scheme Board
How to Create Your Scheme Board
Chapter Eleven
Tutor Feedback
How to Receive Expert Feedback on Your Scheme Board Design
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Module 1
The History of Style, Interiors and Architecture
Module 2
Current Trends
Module 3
Colour Theory
Module 4
Designing With Colour
Module 5
Surveys, Plans and Ergonomics
Module 6
Room Design
Module 7
Lighting Design
Module 8
Elevations
Module 9
Scheme Boards
Module 10
Designing For Clients
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Module 1
Understanding Colour
- Take an in-depth look at colour to understand its significance in interiors.
- Learn about colour in its most basic form by mixing paint colours.
- Make your own colour wheel.
- Understand primary, secondary, tertiary colours, tints, tones and shades.
- Make a grey scale.
- Make a colour scale.
- Create a Colour Mixing Mood Board.
Module 2
Historical Colour
- Look at the influence of history on interior décor and how it impacts on colour schemes today.
- Start your own Historical Research Record.
- Create your own Historical Colour Mood Board.
Module 3
Colour Trends
- Learn how current trends impact on colour choices.
- Undertake your own research into colour trends.
- Create a Colour Trend Collage.
Module 4
Colour Theory
- Learn about the Colour Wheel and colour theory.
- Understand triadic, complementary, split-complementary, harmonious and monochromatic schemes.
- Learn the secrets to putting together a successful colour palette.
- See how a combination of colours can give a room a different ambience.
- Create your own Colour Combination Mood Board.
Module 5
Colour and Aspect
- Learn how to specify a colour scheme with aspect in mind.
- Understand which colours work best in different rooms.
- Working to a Colour Brief, create a Colour Mood Board.
Module 6
Illusions and Colour
- Learn how to change the look and perception of a size of room, simply by using colour.
- Create 8 Room Illusions.
Module 7
The Psychology of Colour
- Learn how different colours can have an emotional response in interiors.
- Understand which colours to use in different rooms.
- Discover which colours not to use in certain rooms and why.
- Working to a Brief, create a Colour Psychology Mood Board.
Module 8
Your Colour Consultancy Business
- Paint – understand paint types and their application.
- Learn how to work with clients and run a profitable business.
- Plan Your Client Consultancy – the stages.
- Your consultancy fee.
- Top tips for home visits.
- Client Questionnaire.
- How to choose a colour palette with your client.
- Writing the colour specification.
- Contracts, Terms and Conditions and Invoices.
- Your Portfolio.