Interior Design Basics – Working with Colour
Come and learn from a professional interior decorator how to successfully use colour when decorating your home. You will learn how to combine different colours and hue to put texture and pattern together to achieve maximum effort.
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Sat 18 SepSaturday & Sunday 10:30 AM - 4:00 PM Selwyn College, Auckland. Catherine Huckerby
Bring your lunch each day plus some other items.
- $154.00 incl. GST
Sessions
Session 1
Sat 18 Sep 10:30 - Sat 18 Sep 16:00Selwyn College, Auckland.Session 2
Sun 19 Sep 10:30 - Sun 19 Sep 16:00Selwyn College, Auckland.Event is fullJoin waiting list
Description
Come and learn from a professional interior decorator how to successfully use colour when decorating your home. You will learn how to combine different colours and hue to put texture and pattern together to achieve maximum effort.
Course outline
- Introduction
- Understanding the colour wheel
- theory
- practical group exercises
- Working with scale and proportion in design
- top tips on how colour, pattern and texture can give the illusion of changing the proportion of a space
- Top tips on using pattern and texture in interior spaces
- how to implement colour palettes, pattern and texture in your homes.
- Coordinating patterns
- How to create a sample or colour board
- practical exercise in class creating a successful colour palette for a lounge or bedroom
- Workshop summary and discussion
Expected learning outcomes
- Understand basic colour theory and learn how to combine different colour schemes successfully using a colour wheel
- Appreciate how to put texture and pattern together successfully
- Demonstrate competence in the ability to use colour effectively in an interior space
What to bring
Bring your lunch each day. We'll provide tea and coffee. Bring a printed A4 photo of your lounge or bedroom (whichever room you'd like to create a colour scheme for), bring a carpet sample OR one or two patterned fabric cuttings that you'd like to incorporate into your scheme. Tip: you can buy fabric offcuts from Martha's Fabric in Melrose St.
Who should attend this course?
Beginners: this course gives some tricks of the trade: how professional interior designers work with colour and decoration successfully, how this can be applied to your home.
