Interior Design with Business Strategy and Accounting

Are you creative? Full of ideas? Forever restyling your rooms? You’d make an ideal interior designer.

Interior design is a stimulating and rewarding profession. It challenges your creativity, ingenuity, practicality and inspiration. It’s also great fun!

You’ll learn about design principles, and how to formulate a design concept before moving on to the more fun element such as fabrics, textures & patterns, and balancing space and function with style.

You’ll also get in-depth knowledge on running, marketing and managing your interior design business in a professional way. Our focused and specialized course modules will walk you through accounting and bookkeeping step-by-step, making sure you leave this course confident and ready to tackle the financial side to your business.

We’ll even show you how to get the edge over the competition to give you a headstart when you launch your new interior design business.

Course Benefits:

• CPD Certified and Fully Accredited by the International Council of Online Educational Standards (ICOES)
• Course access - 60 days - Study at your own pace
• Access or Course from any device: Laptop, Smartphone, tablets, etc.

Immerse yourself in the fundamentals, design concepts and practical implementation of becoming an interior designer and running a business. Learn:

• What elements to consider first
• What to take into account when choosing design features
• How to working with practical building features and utilities
• How to use a space & flow chart to plan your project
• The importance of basic accounting practices
• Keeping and balancing a business payroll
• Keeping track of cash and balancing currency
• Proper bookkeeping practices
• Trusted principles and theory behind marketing
• Setting up a marketing and business plan
• Branding your business
• Online and social media marketing
• Running sales campaigns
• Introduction to market research
• Funding and setting up essential support structures
• Creating a business plan and launching your business

Interior Design Course Breakdown:

Module 1 : Introduction to Interior Design

• What is Interior Design?
• Qualities & skills of an Interior Designer
• Brief history of modern Interior Design
• Becoming an Interior Designer
• Descriptive design terms
• Meeting your clients

Module 2 : Design principles

• Define your tasks
• Interfacing with other disciplines
• Design concept
• Drawings & plans
• Six design principles
• Finding inspiration

Module 3 : Project overview

• Design steps
• Working with the team
• Payment strategies
• Project management tips
• Design evaluation
• Common design challenges

Module 4 : Design elements

• Colors, accessories & their significance
• Spatial relationships & proportion
• Scale & balance
• Texture, patterns & fabrics
• Line & form
• The user’s experience – sight, sound, smell, taste & touch

Module 5 : Design elements

• Choosing a suitable color scheme
• Choosing flooring and & wall décor
• Choosing & placing furniture
• Choosing window dressings
• Choosing & placing lighting
• Choosing accessories & soft furnishings

Module 6 : Room by room design

• Living room
• Kitchen
• Bedroom
• Bathroom
• Kid’s room

Module 7 : Popular interior styles

• Minimalist
• Contemporary
• Classic
• Shabby Chic
• Retro
• New York Style
• Parisian Style
• Mediterranean
• Scandinavian
• New England

Module 8 : Sustainable design

• Design & the environment
• Environmental policy
• Responsible sourcing of raw materials
• Climate change
• Health & safety

Module 9 : Presenting your ideas

• Use of perspective
• Using the color wheel
• Pencil sketching
• Computer aided design
• Mood boards

Module 10 : Managing Interior Design business

• Maintaining professional relationships
• Charging fees
• Preparing a portfolio
• Marketing your business
• Low cost marketing techniques
• Setting up a website
• Blogging
• Social media
• Free PR

Module 11 : Beginning accounting

• History of accounting
• Why is accounting important?
• Decisions you must make
• Jargon, or how to speak like an accountant

Module 12 : Types of accounting

• Financial accounting
• Management accounting
• Tax accounting

Module 13 : Making sense of your accounts

• Organization The accounting cycle
• Using computers for accounting
• How does computerized accounting work?

Module 14 : Keeping inventory and tracking sales

• Purpose of inventory
• Keeping up with inventory
• Keeping track of sales
• Balancing cash

Module 15 : Controlling and managing expenses

• How to control expenses
• Balancing your payroll
• Long-term asset acquisitions
• Financial liabilities

Module 16 : Avoiding illegal accounting

• Improper accounting procedures
• Avoiding shortcuts
• Famous accounting scandals

Module 17 : Introduction to bookkeeping

• Importance of bookkeeping
• Single-entry bookkeeping
• Double-entry bookkeeping

Module 18 : Proper bookkeeping

• Balancing and testing your book
• How to adjust entries
• Financial statement preparation
• Profit analysis
• Liquidity, and how to test it
• Why is internal control important?

Module 19 : Tracking & reporting taxes

• What are business taxes?
• How to report year-end numbers to the government
• Finishing and closing your books

Module 20 : Handling an audit

Module 21 : Marketing

Module 22 : Your Marketing Plan

Module 23 : Low cost marketing techniques

Module 24 : Developing your brand

Module 25 : Your website

Module 26 : Social Media and Online Marketing

Module 27 : Public Relations and Advertising

Module 28 : Sales

Module 29 : Preparation – Before you start your business

Module 30 : Preparation – Introduction to Marketing

Module 31 : Setting up your business

Module 32 : Running your business

Module 33 : Business Plan

Module 34 : Launching your business

• This course is ideal for anyone who is interested in a career in interior design. Are you the stylish one in your group? Does everyone always compliment your eye, your attention to detail, the chic way you put together your living room? Then this is for you!

• Enhance your skills and create your dream career with this course! Learn all about interior design and then find out how to launch and run your new business successfully.

This course earns you credits through Continuing Professional Development (CPD). CPD points are accepted and recognised by professional member bodies and academic institutions across the UK.

All learning content is accredited by the International Council for Online Educational Standards (ICOES) whose purpose is to continually improve online educational products and maintain quality assurance

Trendimi courses are designed for anyone with an interest in learning. No formal qualifications are required. Our courses are suitable if you want to learn new skills, start a new career, or if you’re already working in a particular industry and wish to upgrade your talents and enhance your resume.

After completing this course, you could:

• Open your own interior design business

• Help friends and family with their interior design

• Get a job in the challenging and exciting field of interior design

• Increase your knowledge and skills, perhaps impressing your boss and earning a raise

• Advise other interior designers and home stylists on running a business