Design lovers, learn new skills to redesign homes, offices, and public spaces using color and texture with these courses for beginners
Beautiful spaces have the power to impact our mood, creativity, and more. Pleasant textures, balanced colors, and spacious environments can create a sense of harmony and well-being that positively impacts our health and productivity.
If you want to learn how to create these atmospheres with only a few resources, using your creative instincts and with some guidance from the experts, you can achieve much more than you think. In these ten online courses, professional designers will introduce you to the world of professional interior design, teaching you how to create stylish spaces packed with personality and develop your skills, whatever your level.
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Interior Design for Beginners, a course by STUDIOLAV
What if you could drastically improve someone's mood, creativity, performance, and overall well-being through a space? That's what Loukas Angelou and Vasso Asfi, founders of STUDIOLAV (@studiolav), aim to achieve with their interior design.
Specializing in interior and product design, STUDIOLAV focuses on creating a meaningful emotional connection between people, objects, and their environment. In their online course, they introduce you to the world of interior design while exploring the essential concepts and tools for implementing an exciting idea into a physical space.
Interior Design Fundamentals: Mastering Color and Texture, a course by Shari Francis
Interior design has the ability to evoke an emotional response and create a unique experience for the viewer. The way in which we use colors, texture, and light can create memorable interior spaces that capture your personality.
Shari Francis (@sfrancis) is a Brooklyn-based designer dedicated to creating visually striking interior spaces for residential, commercial, and hospitality projects. In her course, she teaches you how to create original designs through color composition and textured finishes. You'll learn how to craft a harmonious composition of color and texture, and create a complete floor plan to bring your design to life.
Interior Styling: Design Personalized Spaces, a course by Dee Campling
Are you ready to find your interior style and create a space where you feel truly at home? Interior designer and stylist Dee Campling (@deecampling) specializes in creating interiors that capture the personality of her clients. She's collaborated with brands including Dulux and she shares her designs with over 180K followers on Instagram.
In this course, she teaches you how to create spaces you love based on your own unique style. Learn how to combine accessories, textures, and materials to design multi-functional rooms.
Interior Design from Start to Finish, a course by Ana García
To convey the essence of a space in a way that looks good and works well, you have to develop a good concept that takes into account all the details—and know how to anticipate possible unforeseen events. This is what Ana García (@anagarcialopez) teaches in her course (also available with English-language audio).
The co-founder Barcelona-based architecture and interior design studio of Nook Architects shows you how measurements and proportions work, as well as sharing advice for selecting the best materials, lighting, colors, and textures to suit your project.
Introduction to Interior Design, a course by Masquespacio
If you're thinking about remodeling your home, let the experts guide you with simple DIY techniques. Masquespacio (@masquespacio) is an interior and product design studio led by Ana Hernández and Christophe Penasse.
In their introductory interior design course, they will teach you how to carry out a project, from the search for inspiration to the final decoration of the space. You'll learn how to achieve impressive results with limited resources, giving new uses to everyday objects and following the do-it-yourself philosophy.
Design of Healthy Spaces: Wellness and Comfort, a course by Ana García
Interior design can contribute to our health and comfort on a daily basis, and healthy architecture can even improve our physical and emotional states. Discover all the secrets alongside architect Ana García, founder of NeuronaLab and creator of the Zamness coworking spaces.
In this course, Ana will introduce you to techniques for designing healthy spaces and teach you what neuroarchitecture is. You will also learn design strategies and apply basic principles to your project, from the initial ideas to their final stage using environment-based criteria.
Interior Decoration: Tricks to Renovate Your Home, a course by Trucos para Decorar
Do you want to make changes in your home that don't involve significant renovation work? Interior decoration specialist Cristina Larrumbe (@crislarrumbe) will help you fall in love with your home again by redecorating it without investing a lot of money—while staying true to your style.
In this course, she teaches you how to plan and carry out a decoration project that focuses on layout, atmosphere, style, and colors. By the end, you'll know how to transform any room without breaking the bank.
Decorating Your Home on a Budget: Basic Concepts, a course by Sofía Saraví O'Keefe
Every object in our home—big and small—impacts our mood and well-being. By applying some basic decorating and interior design principles, you can create a space that makes you happier.
Interior decorator Sofía Saraví O'Keefe is better known on Instagram as decolookbook (@decolookbook), where she shares interior decoration content with 300,000 followers. In her online course, she'll introduce you to the world of decoration, showing you how to analyze what you already have at home and see what you can change to build the home of your dreams.
Interior Design for Multifunctional Spaces, a course by DecoStudio
The simple distribution of the elements within a space can make a radical change to interiors, and go from being uncomfortable or characterless to becoming your favorite place in the house. Karla Chávez and Paula Vecco founded DecoStudio (@decostudio) thirteen years ago, and today it's one of the most influential interior design and architecture studios in Peru.
In this course, the designers will teach you the basic decorating principles to transform a small space into one that is functional and makes the most of every corner.
Introduction to Sensory Interior Design, a course by Nayra Iglesias
Textures, sounds, flavors, and smells enhance the perception of a space and create emotively powerful experiences. So says Nayra Iglesias (@niglesiass) — architect, designer, and director of In Out Studio, specializing in sensory design for restaurant, hotel, and luxury retail projects.
In this course, Nayra will teach you how to develop an interior design project based on the senses from start to finish. It's an opportunity to learn from an architect who has collaborated with brands like Camper, Manolo Blahnik, Swatch Group, Suáres Joyeros, and Aristocrazy, among others.
Are you ready to get hands-on and decorate your own spaces? Carry on exploring all of Domestika's interior design courses and give your home or office a new look.
English version by @acesarato.
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