Colorful Interior Design: Styling Homes with Personality
A course by Geraldine TanInterior Stylist, Blogger, and Content Creator
A course by Geraldine Tan, Interior Stylist, Blogger, and Content Creator
Explore the psychology of color, lighting, and patterns to design inspiring and welcoming interiors that enhance your home
Color has the power to bring a home to life, evoke the senses, and reflect the personality of the person who lives there. Colorful interiors are what stylist, blogger, and content creator Geraldine Tan is best known for. She is one of the UK’s leading interiors bloggers, having won multiple awards and been featured in publications including The Sunday Times Home, Red Magazine, and Glamour.
In this online course, Geraldine teaches you how to transform a space through color. Discover the psychology of different shades and how to incorporate them into your interiors to make your design ideas a reality. Learn to play with colors to create welcoming and inspiring environments.
What will you learn in this online course?
12 lessons & 20 downloads
Types of Interior Styles
9 minutes, 41 seconds
Identifying and Defining the Space
5 minutes, 45 seconds
Colour and Natural Lighting
4 minutes, 12 seconds
The Psychology of Colours
9 minutes, 41 seconds
The Aspirational Mood Board
9 minutes, 6 seconds
The Final Space Mood Board
16 minutes, 13 seconds
What's included in this course?
Begin the course by getting to know award-winning interior stylist, blogger, and content creator Geraldine Tan. Discover how she went from a career as a doctor to collaborating with brands like Disney and Amazon along with the influences that inspire her.
Explore different interior styles from contemporary to traditional, then identify and define the space for your project, taking into consideration its function, who will use it, and more. Learn about the impact of light on a space and how to decorate with the psychology of color in mind.
Create your aspirational mood board using what you’ve learned from the course so far. Then create the final space mood board featuring your chosen color palette, furniture, and decorative items. Geraldine shows you how to put your mood board into practice to style a space.
Learn how to enhance your interiors through artificial lighting as well as how to use color to evoke the senses. To finish the course, Geraldine shares her advice on posting your work online and turning it into a career.
What is this course's project?
Create two colorful mood boards: an aspirational one and a final board for your finished space featuring colors, furniture, and decorations.
Who is this online course for?
This course is for anyone interested in learning to decorate interior spaces with color.
Requirements and materials
No previous experience is required for this course.
In terms of materials, you will need access to tools for creating either a physical or digital mood board.
Reviews
- 2 months ago
Brilliant introductory course in interior design and colour schemes and styles. x
- 3 months ago
A brilliant course learning about the basics on interior design and great explanations x
- 8 months ago
Muy dinámico
- 9 months ago
Loved it! Geraldine is an awesome instructor!
- 1 year ago
Enjoyed the content.
Since then, she’s become one of the UK’s leading interiors bloggers. Her work has been featured in both national and international media including The Sunday Times Home, YOU Magazine, Red magazine, Glamour, Livingetc, Evening Standard, and more. She has also collaborated with brands like Acqua di Parma, Jo Malone, L’Occitane, Amazon, Disney, Lego, and PayPal, and won awards including The AMARA Interior Blog Award for Color Inspiration.
Content
- U1
Introduction
- About Me
- Influences
- U2
Defining Your Style and the Space
- Types of Interior Styles
- Identifying and Defining the Space
- Colour and Natural Lighting
- The Psychology of Colours
- U3
Styling the Space
- The Aspirational Mood Board
- The Final Space Mood Board
- Decorating the Space
- U4
Enhancing the Experience
- Colour and Artificial Lighting
- Colour and the Senses
- How to Promote Your Work Online
- FP
Final project
- Colorful Interior Design: Styling Homes with Personality
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FAQs
Yes, this course is designed for beginners with no prior experience in interior design or color theory. All key concepts and techniques are introduced from the basics.
You’ll need basic art supplies for mood boards, such as paper, scissors, magazines, or digital collage tools. Access to a smartphone or camera is recommended for taking photos and sharing your work.
You will learn how to apply color theory and psychology, create mood boards, select palettes, use lighting, style with color accents, and promote your designs on Instagram.
Yes, the course explains step-by-step how to construct mood boards to organize inspiration, color palettes, and styling ideas for interior spaces.
The course guides you through analyzing your space, applying color wheel concepts, and using seasonal color theory to create a personalized and harmonious palette.
Yes, you’ll explore how both natural and artificial lighting impact color perception, and how to use different lighting techniques to enhance interiors.
Absolutely. The course includes strategies for photographing spaces, creating engaging posts, and using Instagram to promote your interior design work effectively.