Create Your Own Space: 4-Week Online Home Design Course with Live Coaching and Personalized Room Plans
Transform a real room in your home in just four weeks through structured lessons, interactive live coaching, and a personalized plan tailored to your needs, style, and budget, so you can confidently make decisions and implement a beautiful, functional space that feels uniquely yours.
Contact UsAbout Our Design School
We are a team of interior designers and educators who translate professional processes into approachable, step-by-step systems, combining practical constraints, aesthetic clarity, and coaching to help everyday people complete rooms they love without confusion, overspending, or decision fatigue.
Course Overview
Build a complete, actionable room design from start to finish in four focused weeks with expert guidance, clear milestones, and practical templates, turning design theory into real choices, purchases, and steps that move your project forward without overwhelm or guesswork.
Who This Course Is For
This program serves homeowners, renters, and first-time decorators seeking a structured, supportive path to finish one room well, with realistic budgets, limited time, and honest constraints, while gaining the confidence to repeat the process across future spaces independently.
How the Program Works
Each week combines concise video lessons, guided worksheets, and a live coaching session where you receive targeted feedback on your measurements, mood boards, layouts, and purchases, ensuring steady progress, clear priorities, and decisions that reflect your lifestyle and goals.
What You’ll Learn
Master the essentials of space planning, lighting, color palettes, materials, furniture selection, and styling while learning how to communicate ideas visually, manage budgets, sequence tasks, and troubleshoot real constraints like rental restrictions, awkward layouts, or shared multipurpose rooms effectively and creatively.
Contact usSpace Planning Essentials
Learn to measure accurately, map zones, and prioritize circulation so furniture fits and functions beautifully, using scale references, clearance standards, and practical layout rules that prevent common mistakes like blocked doorways, cramped seating arrangements, and underutilized corners.
Style Discovery and Cohesion
Clarify your aesthetic through guided prompts, curated references, and mood board frameworks, then translate those preferences into cohesive color, material, and form decisions, ensuring your room reads as intentional, layered, and personal rather than a collage of disconnected purchases.
Visual Communication Skills
Build simple floor plans, annotated sketches, and presentation boards to evaluate concepts objectively, align expectations with family members, and share ideas with vendors, making decisions faster and avoiding costly returns, delays, or mismatched items that undermine your overall vision.
One-on-One Design Critique Session (45 Minutes)
Get private, laser-focused feedback on your layout, palette, or sourcing list, with live markups, product parameters, and prioritized next steps that reduce hesitation and eliminate costly missteps before you buy, install, or commit to final decisions.
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Full Custom Room Plan Blueprint
Receive a comprehensive, designer-prepared plan for one room, including scaled layout diagrams, a cohesive palette, lighting strategy, and curated shopping list across budget tiers, plus an implementation timeline and one revision round to finalize decisions confidently and efficiently.
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3D Visualization and Color Rendering
See your room before you purchase with detailed 3D mockups featuring lighting effects, color tests, and furniture scale confirmation, helping you choose confidently, avoid returns, and communicate clearly with family or contractors about the final desired outcome.
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Weekly Curriculum Breakdown
Progress through a proven four-week roadmap that starts with measurements and layout, then moves into palette and materials, followed by lighting and furnishings, and finally implementation and styling, ensuring every decision builds logically toward a coherent, executable room plan.
Week 1: Space, Flow, and Measurement
Establish accurate measurements, document constraints, identify zones, and test multiple layouts using printable grids and templates, while learning circulation standards and scale relationships so your furniture selections and seating arrangements feel balanced, accessible, and comfortable in daily use.
Week 2: Color, Materials, and Mood
Define your palette, compare paint undertones, coordinate textiles, and choose surfaces that balance durability and texture, using lighting tests and sample boards to validate selections in your room’s natural light, preventing unexpected color shifts and regretful material choices.
Week 3–4: Lighting, Furnishings, and Execution
Create a layered lighting plan with ambient, task, and accent sources, finalize your furnishings and decor, sequence deliveries, and map an implementation timeline that aligns with your budget, available time, and energy, culminating in a confident room styling session.
Live Coaching Experience
Join weekly live sessions featuring critiques, demos, and Q&A so you can solve issues in real time, validate your choices, and adapt plans quickly, with recordings available for review and time-zone friendly options for diverse schedules and commitments.
Personalized Room Plan Deliverables
Walk away with a custom plan for one room, including scaled layout sketches, palette and materials board, lighting strategy, prioritized shopping list with budget tiers, implementation timeline, and styling checklist, grounded in your measurements, lifestyle, and practical constraints.
- What Your Plan Includes Receive a scaled floor plan with layout notes, a cohesive color scheme, material recommendations, lighting layers, curated furnishings, decor options, and a step-by-step timeline, plus guidance for substitutions and sourcing alternatives if items are backordered or discontinued.
- How We Translate Your Needs We synthesize your questionnaire, photos, and measurements into clear design priorities, aligning function with aesthetics, so your plan fits your routines, storage needs, natural light, and comfort preferences while respecting rental limitations, pets, and family traffic patterns.
- Revision Timeline and Limits Within the course window, you can request one structured revision round to refine layout choices, color tweaks, or product swaps, ensuring you finalize decisions without scope creep or analysis paralysis, while learning a repeatable process for future rooms.
Tools, Templates, and Resources
Access downloadable worksheets, measurement guides, floor plan grids, palette builders, lighting calculators, and prioritized shopping lists, plus recommended software and free alternatives, so you can document, visualize, and execute decisions efficiently without needing expensive design platforms.
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Use measurement sheets, furniture fit checklists, color sampling guides, and delivery planning trackers to avoid rework, match proportions, and stage purchases thoughtfully, ensuring smoother installations and fewer costly mistakes when items finally arrive at your home.
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Learn simple digital tools for creating scaled plans and boards, with step-by-step tutorials, plus paper-based and free options for those who prefer analog methods, ensuring every student can communicate ideas clearly regardless of technology comfort or budget.
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Browse budget-tiered source lists across categories like sofas, rugs, lighting, and storage, with notes on dimensions, materials, lead times, and care, so you purchase confidently and avoid impulse buys that don’t align with your overall plan or constraints.
Design Styles and Case Studies
Explore real examples across different aesthetics and constraints, learning how consistent principles produce cohesive results whether your taste is modern, eclectic, or traditional, and how to adapt ideas to rentals, small spaces, or shared multipurpose rooms effectively.
Modern Minimal Living Room
See how limited color, clean lines, and negative space can create calm while still accommodating storage, media, and conversation zones, with strategic texture layering, warm lighting, and scaled furniture preventing the sterile feel minimalism can sometimes produce.
Warm Eclectic Bedroom
Analyze a layered scheme mixing vintage pieces, pattern, and personal art without visual clutter, using color repetition, shared materials, and balanced proportions to unite varied elements, and learn practical styling rules that keep nightstands and surfaces functional and serene.
Small Studio Multipurpose Zone
Follow a zoning approach that separates sleeping, working, and dining functions using rugs, lighting, and furniture orientation, with foldable elements and vertical storage maximizing space while preserving comfort, privacy, and the ability to entertain or relax meaningfully.
Space Planning and Layout Mastery
Gain confidence choosing furniture sizes, spacing, and orientation, preventing cramped traffic, awkward TV viewing angles, or undersized rugs, and learn to map activities into zones so your room supports everyday routines with ease and visual harmony.
Zoning and Functional Mapping
Define primary and secondary activities, assign square footage accordingly, and place anchor pieces to create intuitive boundaries, then layer storage and lighting to reinforce behavior, making the room easy to use without constant rearranging or clutter buildup.
Circulation and Sightlines
Set clearances for pathways, seat spacing, and door swings, and align focal points like windows, fireplaces, or media to maintain balance, comfort, and visibility, enhancing conversation and relaxation while avoiding bottlenecks and visual noise in busy households.
Multiuse Furniture Strategies
Choose expandable tables, nesting side tables, storage ottomans, and sleeper sofas to flex your space for work, guests, and hobbies, and use finishes and dimensions that withstand daily wear without dominating the room or disrupting your aesthetic goals.
Color, Lighting, and Materials
Choose a palette that stays true under your natural and artificial light, coordinate materials for durability and texture, and layer ambient, task, and accent lighting to bring your design to life morning, evening, and weekends.
Implementation and Budgeting
Sequence purchases and installations intelligently, allocate funds where impact and durability matter most, and track deliveries, returns, and warranties to keep your project on time and stress low while protecting your investment and achieving your design vision confidently.
Phased Project Roadmaps
Prioritize high-impact items like rugs, paint, and seating, then layer lighting and decor, using milestones that suit your cash flow and schedule, so you experience steady progress and satisfaction even if everything cannot happen at once.
Smart Budget Allocation
Learn when to splurge on core pieces and where to save with durable lookalikes, compare total cost of ownership, and include installation, shipping, and maintenance in decisions, preventing overruns and ensuring lasting value for your lifestyle.
DIY Versus Hiring Pros
Identify tasks suited for DIY, like painting or basic assembly, and when to hire specialists for electrical, custom window treatments, or complex installations, minimizing risk while maintaining control of quality, timing, and overall project cohesion.
Student Community and Support
Connect with a supportive cohort for feedback, encouragement, and accountability, share progress updates, and access moderated discussions, ensuring you never feel stuck, isolated, or unsure while navigating decisions, trade-offs, and daily life realities throughout the program.
Enrollment, Schedule, and Requirements
Choose a start date that fits your calendar, confirm time-zone friendly coaching times, review tech requirements and materials, and understand policies so you can begin confidently, prepared, and fully supported from the first measurement to the final styling moment.
Course Calendar and Time Zones
Weekly coaching is offered at two time slots to accommodate most regions, and all sessions are recorded with timestamped notes, so you can catch up, rewatch key sections, and maintain momentum regardless of your schedule.
Technical and Prep Requirements
You will need a smartphone or camera, printer access for templates, a tape measure, and basic stationery; optional free software links are provided, with step-by-step guides for both digital and paper workflows to match your comfort level.
Enrollment Policies and Guarantee
Seats are limited to preserve personalized feedback, and enrollment closes when capacity is reached; review our refund window and transfer options before start, and contact support for accessibility accommodations or special scheduling needs ahead of your chosen cohort.