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The Second Of Our Interior Design Courses – Turn Your Creativity into a Career
Do you have a passion for transforming spaces and bringing design ideas to life? The second of our Interior Design Courses is perfect for aspiring designers and creative individuals looking to develop professional skills in space planning, colour theory, furniture styling, and more.
Whether you’re starting a new career or enhancing your existing expertise, this course provides the knowledge, hands-on experience, and industry insights needed to design stunning, functional interiors with confidence. Learn from experts and real-world skills, and take the first step toward a rewarding career in interior design.
Start your journey today and make your design dreams a reality!
City & Guilds Accredited Programme
Gain the practical and creative skills you need to design to become a professional interior designer.
- Achieve the City & Guilds Advanced Interior Design Certificate*
- Receive the Regent Academy Diploma
- Flexible home study to fit learning around your life
- Personal tutor support
Professional Interior Design Course Entry Requirements
You will need foundation interior design skills before starting this course. This can be achieved by enrolling in our Successful Interior Design course unless you have equivalent experience.
Our Support Promise
You can phone or email your tutor at any point during your Professional Interior Design courses to ask questions, for advice, encouragement, or to draw on their wealth of knowledge.
You can also contact the support team who are here to help you Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm.
What you will learn
Lesson 1 – Design Communication
- Introduction
- Draughtsmanship
- The use of drawings
- The drawing process
- Collecting ideas
- Good drawing practice
- Names and logos
- Using pens and pencils
- Shading and highlights
- Line drawing
- Guidelines for clean work
- Drawing sequence
- Drawing a plan to scale
- Scales and angles
- Site survey of whole floor plan of house
- Sectional drawings
- Visuals and projections
- Axonometric projection
- Isometric projection
- How to produce an isometric drawing step-by-step
- Perspective drawings
- Basic laws of perspective
- Measured perspective
- Double vanishing point perspective
- Step-by-step perspective method
- Renderings
- Shadow projection
- Hatching, scribbling, shading
- Reflections and colour
- Enhancing an elevation
- Your portfolio
Lesson 2 – Colour and Style
- Introduction
- The meaning of colour
- Colour perception
- The colour wheel
- The language of colour
- Lessons from the colour wheel
- Types of colour scheme
- Planning a colour scheme
- Practical hints
- Colour relationships
- Colour and light
- Colour temperature
- Colour symbolism and psychology
- Symbolic aspects
- Psychology of colour
- Furnishing with colour
- Using colour
- The brief
- Colour tricks
- Colour in the workplace
- Space, balance and contrast
- Space
- Balance and stress
- Contrast
- Designing a style
- Traditional/period
- Country
- Modern/contemporary
- Furniture styles
- Tudor and Jacobean
- Georgian
- Regency
- Victorian
- The 20th century
- More about period styles
- Tudor and Jacobean
- Georgian
- Regency
- Victorian
- Edwardian
- Pattern and texture
- Finishing touches
- Necessities
- Plants and flowers
- Ornaments
- Wall hangings
- China and pottery
- Fabrics
Lesson 3 – Interiors
- Introduction
- Halls
- Lighting
- Decor
- Stairs
- Lighting and safety
- Landings
- The living room
- Planning the layout
- Display
- Dining areas
- Dining rooms
- Planning furniture
- Services
- Decor
- Materials
- Bathrooms
- The plan
- More ideas
- Electrical regulations
- Baths
- Toilets and bidets
- Washbasins
- Taps and fittings
- Materials
- En suite bathrooms
- Bedrooms
- The plan
- Types of bedrooms
- Shower cubicles
- The kitchen
- The work sequence
- Storage
- Styles
- Conservatories
- The plan
- Planning permission
- Quotations
- Style
- Security and safety
- Materials
- Decor
- Loft rooms
- Services
- Planning
- Safety
- Decor
- Storage
- Finishing touches
- Structural details and changes
- External walls
- Internal walls
- Opening up
- Pros and cons of structural alterations
- Planning permissions
- Extensions
- Shopfitting
- Flooring
- Wallcoverings
- Ceilings
- Lighting
- Space
- Display
- Offices
- The design
- Materials
- Regulations
- Hotels
- The brief
- The design
- Safety regulations
- Electrical plan
- Style
- Furniture
- Decoration
- Bathrooms
- Public areas
- Bars
- Materials
- The bar
- Style
- Restaurants
- Ancillary areas
- Dining area
- Style
- Planning
- Show homes
- Budget
- Style
Lesson 4 – Soft Furnishings
- Introduction
- Curtains
- Curtain headings
- Curtain types
- Curtain styles
- Window shapes
- Function of curtains
- Ease of cleaning
- Costs
- Pelmets
- Valances
- Curtain lengths
- The ‘‘designer’’ touch
- Tie-backs
- Passementerie
- Multi-layered window treatments
- Swags and tails
- Poles and tracks
- Specialised curtain fixings
- Blinds
- Shutters
- Fabrics
- Fibres
- Fabric types
- Buying fabric
- Estimating
- Fullness
- Laundering
- Other soft furnishings
- Cushions
- Loose covers
- Headboards
- Bed hangings
- Bedspreads
- Side-table cloths
- Chair-seat cushions
- Upholstered screens
- Fabric “furniture”
Lesson 5 – Materials
- Introduction
- Criteria for choosing materials
- Suppliers
- Showrooms
- Contacts
- Purchasing materials
- Visual aspects
- Types of materials
- Wood
- Wood substitutes
- Brick
- Plaster
- Stone
- Glass
- Metals
- Ceramics
- Cork
- Hides and skins
- Plastics
- Paint and varnish
- Ceiling treatments
- Mouldings
- Plain paint
- Paper
- Textured finishes
- Suspended ceiling systems
- Decorative paint finishes
- Panelled ceilings
- Exotic finishes
- Tented ceilings
- Wall finishes
- Plaster
- Paint
- Paper and vinyl
- Mouldings and borders
- Speciality wallcoverings
- Brick
- Stone
- Wood and wood substitutes
- Unusual finishes
- Tiling
- Decorative paint finishes
- Colour washing
- Sponging
- Dragging
- Ragging
- Stencilling
- Stippling
- Combing
- Spattering
- Cissing
- Graining
- Marbling
- Exotic finishes
- Hard flooring
- Wood flooring
- Ceramic tiles
- Quarry tiles
- Terracotta tiles
- Vinyl tiles
- Rubber tiles
- Thermoplastic tiles
- Cork tiles
- Sheet flooring
- Stone
- Brick
- Soft flooring
- Carpet
- Fitting carpets and floor coverings
- Rugs and carpet tiles
- Natural floor coverings
- Durability and maintenance of materials
- Suitability and practicality
- Maintenance factors
- Materials for commercial interiors
- Ceiling treatments
- Wall treatments
- Floor treatments
Lesson 6 – Services
- Introduction
- Lighting
- Effects
- Choices
- Needs
- Illumination levels
- Glare
- Light fittings
- Light distribution
- Decorating with light
- Effects of lighting on a room
- Choosing lights
- Designing with light
- Bulbs/‘‘lamps’’
- Types of light fittings
- Lampshades
- Types of switches
- Types of bulbs/lamps
- Layout
- Room by room
- Summary
- Electrical work
- Understanding electricity
- Plugs and switches
- Fire safety
- Heating
- Central heating
- Boilers
- Radiators
- Alternative heating methods
- Water heating
- Heating controls and equipment
- Plumbing
- Water supply and storage
- Cold water
- Hot water
- Central heating water supply
- Waste pipework
- Taps
- Showers
- Pipes
- Air conditioning
- The air-handling unit
- Processing units
- Vacuum-cleaning ducts
- Home security
- Lighting
- Protection
Lesson 7 – History of Interior Design
- Introduction
- In the beginning
- Greek and Roman
- The Classical Orders
- Classical Ornament
- The Middle Ages
- Economic stability
- Timber-framed homes
- Gothic
- The Renaissance
- Interiors
- Classical motifs
- The Baroque
- Louis XIV and Baroque
- English Baroque
- Rococo
- Motifs
- Furnishings
- Neo-classicism
- Palladianism
- Robert Adam (1728-92)
- The Greek Revival and Regency
- Empire
- The Victorian age
- The picturesque
- Gothick and Gothic
- Eclecticism
- Mass production
- The Arts and Crafts movement
- Art Nouveau
- The 20th Century
- The modern movement
- The international style
- Art Deco
- Contemporary
- Seeing for yourself
- Places to visit
Running a Business
- Introduction
- Product information
- Magazines
- Exhibitions
- Samples
- The ‘‘designer library’’
- Personal accounts
- Storage
- Purchasing materials
- Setting up accounts
- Finding your workforce
- Insurance
- Employer’s liability
- Product liability and public liability
- Goods and stock, and goods in transit
- Business premises and equipment
- Your first commission
- First contacts
- The first meeting
- Back at base
- Second meeting
- Processing the job
- Learning from experience
- Deciding to start a business
- The market
- Funding
- Motivation
- Setting up your office
- Fundamentals
- Communications
- Stationery
- Creating a filing system
- Basic accounting and administration
- Trading options
- Professional help
- VAT
- Invoices and receipts
- Keeping books and records
- Good book-keeping practices
- Finding new clients and contracts
- Word of mouth
- Advertising
- Other promotional tactics
- Working through your contract
- Meeting your client/the brief
- Preparation
- Inviting tenders
- The contract
- Practical tips
- Retention monies
- Penalty clause
- Certificates for payment
- Completing the contract
- Obtaining your fees
- Quotations
- Invoicing
- Debtors
- Chasing up money
- When to turn work away
- No money
- Too specialised
- Bad debtors
- Low standard
- Losing other contracts
- Over-commitment
- Gallery of Students’ work
- Glossary
How Our Courses Work
Your first course materials will be sent to you when you enrol so you can start as soon as you want. You can then enjoy your course at your own pace, studying when it suits you and where it’s most comfortable. This gives you the freedom to learn around your existing job, family or other commitments or location (including overseas).
Experts have developed course materials that are clear and straightforward, so your studying is easy and enjoyable.
All coursework assignments are included within your course. As you complete each assignment, simply send it to your tutor, who will mark and return it along with valuable, constructive feedback to help progress your skills further. (You can also contact your tutor or the support team for help at any point during your studies.) The remaining course materials will be sent to you as each assignment is completed.
Where required, you will demonstrate your learning by submitting recorded practical sessions (for example, a video of your session recorded on a mobile phone or tablet) to show your competence in interviewing clients and delivering ceremonies and services in a professional, appropriate manner.
After successfully completing all your assignments, you will receive the Regent Academy Diploma and you will also be awarded our City & Guilds Advanced Interior Design Certificate* when you successfully complete this course.
Study Length
There are no deadlines for this course. Simply study in the comfort of your own home and in your own time.
Your progress may, therefore, depend upon how much time you would like to commit to study. However, as a rough guide, students tend to complete this course in approximately 6-8 months*.
* Timescales are approximate and depend upon application and motivation.
Certification
City & Guilds accredited programme
You will also be awarded our City & Guilds Advanced Interior Design Certificate* when you successfully complete this course.
You can add this to your CV, business cards, adverts, website, etc., to demonstrate to prospective employers and potential clients that you have recognised skills.
*You do not need to complete any further assignments or coursework to receive this certificate
Regent Academy Diploma
You will receive the Regent Academy Diploma when you successfully complete this course. With Regent Academy’s reputation, this can be a highly sought-after addition to your CV alongside your portfolio of coursework, which can powerfully showcase your skills to prospective employers or potential clients.
The letters RA (PID)
Successfully complete this course, and you will be entitled to use the letters RA (PID) after your name. You can then use it on business cards, letter head, adverts, your website, and elsewhere. This can enhance your credibility and demonstrate your experience in interior design to potential clients.
What’s Next
Once you have successfully completed this course, you could start a rewarding new career and work on a range of fascinating interior design projects.
You could turn what you’ve learned into a career or apply it to your existing role. For advice and support, get in touch with one of our tutors, or contact our support team from 9 am – 5 pm.
Course fee & how to enrol
There are two ways you can enrol
Pay the total course fee of £495* £396* in one sum and receive a £50 voucher towards the cost of your next course
or
Pay 10 monthly payments of £52.50* £42.60* (£30 administration fee included)
Enrol on both our Successful Interior Design and Professional Interior Design courses at the same time and save over £145
Pay the total course fees of £735* £588* in one sum and receive a £50 voucher towards the cost of your next course
or
Pay 12 monthly payments>of £63.75 £51.50 (£30 administration fee included)
(Select the option for ‘Both Successful Interior Design and Professional Interior Design’ at enrolment)