ONLINE COURSES AND PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT MATERIALS

Available Courses

Recipe for Success - Business Bootcamp April-May 2025

LIMITED SPACES - first come first served : Are you giving yourself the best chance of success? The most successful designers constantly strive to improve their skills and performance - in this course we'll consider what sets them apart, how they achieve business excellence. As part of a small group you’ll identify the aspects of practice you most want to enhance, and I will help you create and launch your improvement plan.

£1,180.00 GBP

Perfect Paint Palettes - Original Colour For Your Home

Looking for colour inspiration? This course shares a simple method to generate perfect colour palettes for your home and helps you convert conceptual schemes into real-life paint references.

£45.00 GBP

Light Your Home - bring out the very best in your home with this information-packed course

How would a professional lighting designer work their magic in your home? This lighting course explains it all and includes tips for homeowners and for people who rent. The course is packed full of technical advice, and uses simple exercises to break down the greatest challenge that confronts any designer: the blank sheet of paper!

£95.00 GBP

Interior Design Practice: Valuing Your Services

Use this free tool to work out how much you should charge clients for your time. This calculator comes pre-loaded with all the factors you need to consider, and with formulas already embedded. It's really simple to use and can help keep your business in the black!

Free

Interior Design Charging and Fee Proposals

Do you want to know - from scratch - how to structure a fee proposal, calculate fees, work out project timings, find help with drafting contracts, and share with clients why they're lucky to work with you? This course covers fees and charging from A-Z, and gives you every document needed to complete fee proposal packages for your clients.

£50.00 GBP

Recipe For A Room Courses

LIVE MASTERCLASSES:

Recipe For Success Business Bootcamp runs several times each year, bringing together a small group of practising design professionals. This course+coaching programme focuses on pushing design businesses to the next level by creating detailed business and marketing plans, and actively improving across multiple fronts.

Places are limited and offered on a first-come-first-served basis. Find future dates in the panel above.

CORE SELF-DIRECTED COURSES:

Other Recipe For A Room courses are self-paced, and all are delivered online.

MY TEACHING CREDENTIALS:

In my academic career I've specialised in online learning - this was the focus of my PGCE teaching qualification.

I started teaching online in 2007, some highlights from this career include launching a colour course for FutureLearn; and creating online kitchen design training for Kingfisher plc., a programme that was successfully delivered to 3,500 employees across Europe; and developing the UK's very first online degree in interior design.

HERE ARE SOME RECENT STUDENT REVIEWS:

CATHERINE

I loved this class! Thank you so much, Julia. I'm just redesigning my study so that it's more of a creative playroom as well as home office and I'm feeling totally inspired. I live in Spain so in the summer the room is really hot but in the winter it's pretty chilly so I'm thinking I can bring in accessories with a more cool feel/colour in the summer and warmer tones in the winter. I'm still playing with what image I want to choose for my project word. In fact I'm still playing with what word to select, either 'inspiration' or 'creativity'. Thanks again!

KARINA

Thank you Julia for a great course. I'm an architect wanting to work with interiors and this was the perfect refresher of some basic concepts I learned in university, plus new, valuable information. Now I can't stop thinking of all the ways I can light my own home.

ANNE

I did the whole thing in one sitting. It was so interesting, inspirational and helpful. And the instructor was brilliant. I’m not that arty, I’m more a person that needs a formula to work to … a recipe! This was just perfect for me. I wish I’d known all this when we built our extension 11 or so years ago. It’s got me all fired up and ready to have another go at our living area.