Interior Design: A textile recipe for the Interiors of your home
Course Overview
Choosing the right fabrics can transform your home, but knowing where to start can be overwhelming.
This informative workshop will guide you through the fundamentals of selecting textiles for residential interiors, helping you create beautiful, practical and cohesive spaces.
You'll learn how to choose fabrics that are fit for purpose for upholstery, window treatments and soft furnishings, while exploring the characteristics of natural and man-made fibres. The workshop will also cover how to combine patterns and colours successfully, understand pattern scale and repeats and avoid common decorating mistakes.
The session also includes an introduction to upholstery, including how to assess whether a piece of furniture is worth reupholstering, what the process involves and how to communicate effectively with an upholsterer.
Topics include:
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Where to begin with fabric selection
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Choosing the right fabrics for upholstery, curtains, and soft furnishings
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Natural versus man-made fibres and their properties
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Creating a cohesive interior soft furnishing scheme
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Pattern mixing, scale, and repeat
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Upholstery basics and assessing furniture for restoration
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Understanding the upholstery process and industry terminology
Take home:
Participants will leave with the confidence to select suitable fabrics for a range of residential applications, understand the qualities of different textile fibres and communicate more effectively with upholsterers and other interior professionals when planning home projects.
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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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