Interior design is more than just knowing where to place the right furniture at home. It is a professional way of designing interior spaces to make them functional, safe, and beautiful. This course will provide you with both the needed knowledge and the creative ideas you need to succeed in interior design. Even without rigorous university studies, this course will inspire you to draw and apply innovative concepts like appropriate color schemes, choosing the right furniture, deciding on wall and floor coverings, as well as window treatments. Learn from Rita Nicolas, an instructor who is a happy, young, and full-of-life designer and architect. She is a Lebanese national with 27 years of extensive expertise in teaching students fashion design, interior design, architecture, creative drawing, and painting in Dubai. You will leave the class with enough knowledge and confidence to decorate your own place and even do it for others. Classes can be taken in Arabic, English, or a combination of both.

Accredited Certificate from KHDA Government of Education

Course Description:

• Whether you’re starting from scratch or making the best of what you have, this course will provide

• you all the ideas and information needed to succeed in Interior design. This course is offered by

• an interior designer. Without rigorous universities studies, this course will inspire you with new

• ideas. It will teach you how to pick colour scheme with confidence, how to choose furniture with

• a future, decide on wall and floor coverings and window treatments… The course will give you

• the knowledge and confidence to decorate your own place. By the end of the course you will gain

an attendance certificate. Details on the backside.

Course Outline:

• * The heart of Interior design.

• Without much ado, diving straight into the essence of Interior Design. We’ll touch the many

• technical facets of Interior Design. What is a plan, how to read it. What is a façade and how to

interpret it. What is elevation and perspective.

• * Hands On

• Learning how to use a scale ruler and how to take measurement in reality. Practicing the

• architecture rules. How to organize and bend spaces to your needs. Applying acquired knowledge

• to a toilet and kitchen plans in a real life scenario simulation. By trial and error process, you’ll

design and we’ll correct until the best design is reached.

• * Creativity. The soul of Interior Design.

• In this session we’ll focus on the creativity thinking that is the soul of Interior design. You’ll create

a design for a studio room. We’ll also handle the perspective approach.

• * Technically deep.

• Assessing the materials. Learning the axonometric. Evaluating your creative approach of the studio

based on the newly acquired knowledge.

• * Technicals forward / Your homes

• Going forward to learn all the architecture tools. T_ruler, scale ruler and architect ruler. We’ll use

• all of them to measure our designs. We’ll employ strict measurement to develop a bedroom design.

Starting this lesson you will be able to review your own homes.

• * Design real life plans

• Designing a reception room from A to Y. Utilizing the measurements and drawing its plans,

elevations and perspective. This is a real life example that will help you designing your own homes.

• * Colors, fabrics and furniture.

• Selecting colors for your interiors. Matching the fabrics with the furniture. Using those to design

• all the rooms of a house. We’ll experiment with some samples, before and after. We’ll devise and

design dining room, and kitchen.

• * Joining the parts, technical knowledge and creativity part.

• We’ll work with the colors on different house entities. We’ll achieve a Kitchen, and master

bedroom. Both will have direct impact on your real life home designs.

• * Styles of the past and the future

• Discussing the different interior styles from the classic to the contemporary to the ultra-modern.

• We’ll mix them into your own home design and we’ll witness their effect on your home plans

based on your taste. It benefits you without having to study 5 years the history of art.

• * Material selection to your needs.

• Effect of the different materials on your home design and style. A house for kids has a definite

distinct design than one for teens or olds. We’ll apply height levels for different styles of living.

• * Lightings and space planning.

• Space intelligence and how to best to squeeze an elephant into a Volkswagen car. Converse about

the lighting function. Reflection on their effects to your home plans.

• * Your homes / End of the tunnel

We’ll conclude your particular home plans and you’ll receive your course certificate.

Grading Policy:

Attendance and participation: 20%

Class assignments: 30%

Midterm exam: 25%

Final project: 25%

Note: The syllabus is subject to change and may vary depending on Designers Collective

We offer a longer duration for a more comprehensive lesson:

18 hours = 2530 dhs

36 hours = 5040 dhs