Course overview

Tricia Guild and the Designers Guild design studio teach you how to find your own creative style for interior design and your lifestyle.

You'll learn how to develop your own personal style and where to find inspiration for your interior colour, pattern and style choices. And you'll be building your own design project as you learn.

Throughout this interior design course Tricia will be demonstrating with moodboards how to bring together your style for a room from paint colours, fabrics and accessories. You'll be creating your own moodboard to send to Tricia, as you develop your creative voice.

Tricia will then move onto how to combine colours and textures to express your style. She'll be exploring some of the projects she's worked on and explaining why she's made creative design choices for her clients.

You'll look at how to use patterns, and how patterned materials can be combined to create the best effect in your room.

Finally you'll explore the power of accessorising a room, and how accessories can bring inspiration in a creative life.

This course goes beyond the basics of interior design to equip you to create your own style for living creatively.

You'll learn:

where to find interior design inspiration
find your creative voice
how to combine colours
creating moodboards
using patterns and textures in your designs

The course includes:

4 on-demand video lesson - presented by Tricia Guild
lifetime access to the videos, notes and interactive class
flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
downloadable lesson notes
practical interior design projects (with tutor feedback available)
access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
small interactive online classroom - chat online to students from around the world and share your creative ideas

Time to complete the interior design course:

Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 12 hours 30 minutes to complete including:

Video lessons: 1 hour 50 minutes minutes in total
Course notes: 10 minutes per lesson
Your interior design projects: at least 2 hours per lesson
Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson
Tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per lesson

You'll need:

A3 / A2 piece of card for your moodboard (or use the Designers Guild online moodboard)
photographs, fabric samples, paint colours to create your boards

Ready to get started?

To join the class add the interior design course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Tricia and Designers' Guild Design Studio on your projects and questions.

Every course can be sent as an instant gift - tick "This is a gift" at the checkout.

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Lesson summary

Finding your creative voice

In this introductory lesson, Tricia will tell the fascinating story of how her single shop on London’s King’s Road became a global brand and lifestyle arbiter – shaping the way we view colour, texture, and pattern in our homes. She will explain her philosophy, her belief that the interiors we inhabit and the things we surround ourselves with, have a profound effect on our well-being and happiness. Tricia talks about her influences and mentors, describing her own journey through style and taste across time and place. Tricia will then introduce and explain the concept of the moodboard and its centrality to her creative approach and how this simple but effective technique can be used in your own life in many ways – from designing a room, laying a table, arranging your belongings etc.

Colour & Texture

Tricia starts the lesson with a dynamic tour of the King's Road Designers Guild shop, explaining her inspiration and how she has used different colours where and why. Illustrated with a trove of archive imagery and film, Tricia talks about her use of colour using different projects which showcase key colour combinations from bright, neutral, classical, monochrome. She assesses why they work and potential pitfalls along the way. Tricia will then go into depth on her use of colour, building a moodboard to illustrate her creative process and showing students how they can create their own room and what they need to consider when doing so.

Pattern & Form

Pattern adds life and spirit - choosing the patterns you love – are you geometric, floral or abstract Form – surfaces and shape – curvy or straight? This lesson begins as Tricia explains important ways in which she has used pattern, the inspiration, why she did so and what she was trying to achieve. Sitting down for another student-mentor conversation, Tricia again takes students through different projects she has worked on, which she feels are valuable in explaining pattern. Again, these examples will be richly illustrated so students can best understand what she describes. Tricia will then select a room where pattern plays a significant role in her design. She will create a moodboard to illustrate her creative process and show students how they can create their own.

Bringing it all together

In this lesson, Tricia shares her way of living a creative life - tips and ideas that will enrich the everyday – seasonal changes mark the shift in the seasons and refresh your space. Light a candle at meals, a few stems in a well-chosen vase, add rugs and warmer textures in the autumn and take them away in the spring. Change your collection of pictures and hang them in a different way. Tricia will show how a selection of well-chosen accessories can quickly update and enrich the way you live.

Choose how you want to learn

Expert-level

Develop your learning further with marked assignments and personal tuition:

Start the course whenever you like
Tutor access for personalised assignment feedback & coaching
Certificate of completion and CPD learning hours
Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
Lessons with expert videos & notes
Group chat & direct message with tutor & classmates
Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom

Peer-level

Get the most from shared knowledge and community study:

Start course whenever you like
Practise what you learn with your peers
Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
Lessons with videos & notes
Course assignments
Group chat & direct message classmates
Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom

meet the expert

Tricia Guild

Visionary pioneer of interior design, renowned for vibrant creations since the 1970s, setting trends globally.

Why choose Learning with Experts?

Start whenever it suits you, and immerse yourself in motivational lesson tutorials with expert guidance.

Enhance your learning and personal growth with lesson assignments. Each course includes an optional assignment at the end of every lesson.

Drop a friendly message or respond to your assignment feedback. Our world-class experts are just a click away, ready to help you!

Stay informed about your own progress and those of your peers, and take joy in celebrating achievements along the way.

Chat and share ideas with passionate communities of learners from around the world.

Frequently asked questions

What’s the difference between PEER and EXPERT options?

At Peer and Expert level, you get access to the same core content and features:

Video lesson tutorials led by your expert tutor
Downloadable lesson notes
Option to practise what you learn with lesson assignments
Group learning within an online interactive classroom of up to 20 classmates
Lifetime access to videos, notes and classroom

If you choose Expert level, you get all of the above plus the following:

Personalised assignment feedback and coaching from your expert tutor
Opportunity to interact with your expert tutor through a private messaging system
Certificate of completion.

What is an online classroom?

Our online classroom has been developed to allow you to learn from our experts in a sociable environment alongside up to 20 other students. After each video tutorial led by your expert, you will be encouraged to practice what you have learned with optional assignments - these can be seen by the other students in your class, who are free to share their own thoughts and questions with you.

You will be encouraged to take part in an ongoing class discussion where you can discuss ideas, post images or work, and comment on each other’s assignments. It’s a great way to learn from other like-minded people who share your passion from all over the world.

This means not only do you benefit from people who are outstanding in their field, but also from a close-knit group of like-minded people whom you can learn alongside. Group learning has shown to greatly improve not just the experience of studying, but also how well you retain the knowledge, and we have built our classroom experience around this fact.

When can I start my course and how long will it take?

You can start your course any time within 12 months after receipt of your purchase confirmation email. Once you start, you’ll have lifetime access — meaning you can revisit the lesson videos and notes whenever you want.

Our courses are designed so that you can study at your own pace, some prefer to binge learn while others like to spread their studying over a longer period of time - it’s completely up to you. To give you a rough time frame, each lesson video is approximately 30-40 minutes long, and we recommend that you spend around an hour on each assignment.

How often can I speak with the Expert?

If you opt for the Expert version of your course, the time you have to interact with your tutor is limited to course length. You will have one week per lesson to chat to your tutor and to have your assignments marked, and during this period you can ask them as many questions as you would like.

To find out the length of each course, head to the product page and look at the Course outline to see how many lessons it contains. e.g. a four lesson course assumes that you will have completed the assignments within four weeks.

Your tutor interaction period will start as soon as you enter the classroom. If you find that you are struggling to complete the assignments in the allocated time or you wish to put this function on hold, just get in contact with one of the team via the support button and we will help you out.

Support and full FAQs

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Interior Design: Finding the Colours & Patterns you Love