Maybe you rearrange rooms in your head while you fall asleep. This course puts order behind that instinct: space planning, lighting, colour, materials and styling. A working designer gives feedback on what you make, a solid place to start.
Taste gets you part of the way. Spatial planning, light and material choice are the reasons a room feels right, and they can be taught.
Room makeovers and mini projects run through the course. By the end you have work to put in front of a client or an employer.
Twelve months of access and no set class times. Watch the live sessions when they suit, or catch them later.
Interior work in Australia sits across three places: studios, retail and property. Styling a house before it goes to market is steady work, and colour consulting suits people who like short, sharp jobs. The day is site visits, samples, drawings and a lot of talking clients through choices.
Finishes, furniture and styling for a client brief.
Dressing homes for sale or for photos.
Palettes for a room, a house or a build.
Advising buyers on what a space could become.
Helping shoppers choose in a showroom.
Full room and layout work, often after further study.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Interior design roles in commercial or building work usually ask for further study on top of this course.
Three things that separate this from a shelf of design books.
Jenna Cottis reviews your key assignments and gives portfolio feedback, usually inside two to three weeks.
Concept workshops, moodboard and finishes demonstrations, layout walkthroughs, and guest sessions with designers, architects and stylists.
Assignments come back with notes on the choices you made, not a mark. Discussion boards stay open the whole way.
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Awarded by the college once you finish.
Projects reviewed by a practising designer.
Workshops, walkthroughs and guest designer Q&As.
An advisor explains the feedback loop with Jenna.
Weekly plan, or pay upfront in full.
Fundamentals and layout come before finishes.
Key assignments come back with written notes.
No. It opens with design fundamentals, so you can arrive with nothing but interest.
From $29 a week on a plan, with no deposit and no credit check. An advisor can confirm current pricing.
Mentor feedback on key assignments usually lands within two to three weeks.
No. They run through the year and you join the ones that suit. Jenna joins discussion boards where she can, though she may not reply to every comment.
About 80 hours of content, with twelve months of access to get through it.
You will have project work to show. Room makeovers and mini projects run through the course, and your mentor reviews the key ones.
It carries a Certificate of Achievement and sits as an industry recognised micro-credential, with the college holding ICOES accreditation, Official CPD Standards Office Accreditation and International Approval and Registration Centre registration. That is accreditation for professional development. It is not nationally recognised, and the college is not an RTO. Those are different things. Decorating, styling and colour consulting are unlicensed in Australia, so what you show people matters more than the paper.
Yes. A 10-day money back guarantee runs from enrolment.
You enrol in this course through The Career Academy, an online college that has run for over 15 years and helps more than 25,000 students a year.
The interior design course is delivered with Ulleo, the college's education partner, and mentored by practising designer Jenna Cottis.
Picture a client walking into the room you planned and going quiet for a second before they say anything.