Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces

Creating unique spaces to have a positive influence on the people who occupy it is the passion of Gema Casado Olea—founder of El Jarro de Ideas. In this online course, she teaches you how to create a workspace with your essence according to the rules of fengshui, from scratch, and with no knowledge of assembling or DIY.

From the author of three DIY books with Penguin Random House, and creator and presenter of the Creative Decoration television program on Canal decasa, learn simple techniques that allow you to build a practical desk and a storage drawer that also works as a seat, with your own hands.

Meet Gema, who tells you about how she radically changed her life by making things by hand in El Tarro de Ideas. In addition, she shows you her main influences and what inspires her such as fengshui, the Skogluft method, and minimalism.

Learn to identify your needs versus your desires to define the colors, the perfect location of the elements so that the energy flows in your space, and many factors that make your workplace harmonious, based on the discipline of fengshui and other methods.

Look for references based on the ideal work space and you make a sketch with pencil, paper, colors, and cutouts to estimate the materials and tools you need.

Get to work defining the elements present in the space, such as wood, plants, metal, water, wall color, and different functional and decorative pieces.

Once you have defined the space you have, Gema accompanies you step by step in the construction of a desk and a storage drawer, which in turn serves as a seat for guests and collaborators in your future studio.

If you do not have experience using basic construction tools, fear not. In this course you learn from an expert, so that you lose your fear and unleash your creativity by creating a studio that suits you. In addition, learn the main assembly techniques so that you can build what you need.

Finally, discover some construction and decoration alternatives for your workspace that are useful to carry out your project.

Design and manufacture a desk and a seat (which in turn is a storage unit) with the basic principles of assembly and fengshui.

Anyone who wants to have a work space to suit them, with their essence, personalized and adapted to the square meters available.

To take this course you do not need knowledge of interior decoration, DIY, or graphic design. Regarding the materials, you need a pencil, paper, wood of different sizes, a drill, a screwdriver, glue, screws, paint, a roller, among other materials that Gema explains in detail.