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| Interior Design & Decorating |  From time to time nearly everyone alters or designs their home, apartment, office or even individual rooms. Some people do it because they like it, others prefer to use help of freelance interior designers and decorators. This course is available for those who have a little flair and some creative imagination. You don't need to be especially talented. Interior design and decorating is skill you can learn. During the course you find out about colour, space, arrangement, mood, theme, how to sketch an internal design and how to use measurements, choosing and sourcing furnishings and planning out rooms. In fact, even though this is a foundation course you can do in your spare time, it is so comprehensive you will feel like you have learnt everything you need to know to set up your own home business.
This course includes all the principle subjects and elements you will need. You will get to know everything from decorating a room to taking a client brief and setting up your own stationary. Of course, you don't have to get started in interior design and decorating as a business. The skills and knowledge you can receive during the course will be helpful for you to redesign and decorate your own home, office or apartment.
This foundation course is a great way to test the career and see if it's right for you—before venturing into a longer, more advanced program. It's the perfect way to get yourself started.
You can be a: Interior Designer, Interior Decorator, Colour Consultant, Events Designer. Further study can lead to Interior Architect.
Industries include: private individuals and all businesses.
Interior Designers
An interior designer is a person who creates a functional and comfortable interior environment. This person can identify, research and creatively address issues to offer a healthy, safe and convenient physical environment. An interior designer has a feeling of people’s conduct and uses this to create functional spaces within the structures.
Interior designers are responsible for a wide variety of tasks including:
• organizing a space for effectiveness and to suit its function
• discussing with the clients and architects their needs and intentions
• creating designs that are appropriate, functional and aesthetically pleasing
• preparing working drawings and specifications for interior construction, materials, finishes, space planning, lighting and furnishings
• valuing costs of materials, labour and time, and giving estimates to clients for approval
• making sure that designs meet building and safety codes
• organizing supplies and instructing tradespeople, and inspecting the work.
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