Interior Design Fundamentals
Course Overview
Step inside the world of interior design and learn how to transform any space with confidence, creativity and purpose.
Across nine inspiring weeks, designer Kerry Selby Brown guides you through the essential foundations of great interiors – from furniture flow and colour psychology to fabrics, styling, lighting and the secrets professionals use to make a room feel “just right.”
You will explore how to plan a renovation, create functional layouts, choose colours that support mood, work with texture, select textiles that last and bring a room together with art, lighting and soft furnishings. You will also learn where designers shop, how to brief trades and how to design a master bedroom that feels grounded, calm and beautifully resolved.
Whether you are refreshing a single room or dreaming of a full renovation, this course gives you the skills, insider knowledge and confidence to design spaces that truly feel like home.
Weekly topics:
Week 1: Colour selections /psychology of colour. How colour can affect an Interior and the interplay of light.
Week 2: Planning a renovation – Scope of work, realistic budgets and engaging tradesman.
Week 3: Furniture configuration – for flow Understanding the scale of a room and working with Icons at 1:50 scale.
Week 4: Texture, styling, rugs and accessories for Interiors
Week 5: Fabrics – Best usage textiles fit for purpose for window treatments and upholstery
Week 6: Where to shop (Guest speaker from Industry)
Week 7: Pulling it all together scale – Artwork lighting and soft furnishings
Week 8: Designing a Master bedroom
Week 9: Grounding rooms – tricks of the trade.
This courses is perfect for beginners, renovators, home‑lovers and anyone wanting to elevate their design eye.
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Kerry Selby Brown
I am a qualified Interior Designer with a Bachelor of Design in Human Environments from the University of South Australia, graduating in 1988.
For the past 25 years, I have run my own interior design business, working across apartment, residential and aged care developments.
Alongside my design work, I was a Senior Lecturer at Sydney Design School for 14 years, teaching within the Certificate IV in Design and Decoration program. My teaching areas included technical drawing, textiles, finishes and flooring, lighting design, model making and space planning.
My greatest passions are textiles, interior finishes, styling and colour.
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