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The Ultimate Guide to Interior Design

with Rita Konig
Gain the skills and confidence to tackle interior design projects of your own and learn how to create a stylish, comfortable home full of character.
36 lessons
workbook
6 hours
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What's Included

Learn the fundamentals of design

Learn the fundamentals of design

Colour schemes and room layouts

Colour schemes and room layouts

Tour Rita’s North Farm home

Tour Rita’s North Farm home

Advice on sourcing items

Advice on sourcing items

Learn from Rita Konig

Internationally renowned interior designer Rita Konig teaches her first-ever online course. Filmed across two of her personal projects, this online course gives you unprecedented access to one of the world’s most celebrated interior designers. Watch over 5 hours of video lessons where Rita teaches you the techniques, suppliers and materials she uses, so you can be inspired and apply them to...

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The Ultimate Guide to Interior Design

I think that mostly everybody wants to feel some control over their house themselves. What I really want is for you to feel the freedom of doing it yourself and the freedom to go out and discover your own taste, rather than to just teach you how to copy mine.

Rita Konig

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Lesson Plan

36 LESSONs / 6 HOURs

Meet Rita

Meet Rita

To have the best possible experience whilst watching Rita's course, we recommend taking the virtual tour of North Farm farmhouse. Copy and paste this link into your browser to get started: bit.ly/NorthFarmTour If you would like to download the entire workbook as one file, please use the document attached to this lesson. Otherwise, please download each individual lesson workbook as you progress through the course. In this lesson Rita welcomes you to the course and explains that no matter what stage of life you’re at, knowing the processes and techniques of interior design can help you make a beautiful home.

Finding your style part I

Finding your style part I

Rita helps you develop confidence by revealing how pieces of your history and childhood inform you, giving you foundations upon which to build your taste.

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The buying guide part 1: the auction house

The buying guide part 1: the auction house

Rita takes you to Tennant's Auction House in Yorkshire and shows you how to spot the pieces that are right for your home.

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Finding your style part II

Finding your style part II

Rita continues to draw out your personal style and taste.

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The design process

The design process

Rita breaks down the process she uses, step-by-step, starting by asking a crucial question: how do you want to live?

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Working with budgets

Working with budgets

Through structuring her ‘budget and purse’ approach, Rita explains how you can squeeze the most out of your budget, as well as how a restricted budget can actually make for a more comfortable room. A template for Rita's room-by-room method is also linked in this section of the workbook.

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North farm walkthrough: the four-poster room

North farm walkthrough: the four-poster room

Rita takes you through how the four-poster room at North Farm came together.

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Laying out your rooms

Laying out your rooms

Look deeper into how your rooms function as Rita takes you to her design studio for phase one of her design process: layout.

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Laying out your rooms: a demonstration

Laying out your rooms: a demonstration

Rita shows us how she creates her own floor plans.

Planning for electrics

Planning for electrics

Following the right process can help you get the electrics in a project right the first time. Rita explains all the lessons she’s learnt by showing you how to draw your own electrical plan.

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