Interior Design QLS Level 3 and Starting Your Own Business QLS Level 3

With a creative and project-intensive business such as Interior Design, it is important to remember the commercial aspects of running a company. This course is designed to help you achieve excellence in both the quality of your skills as an interior designer and in the way that you run your business. This course will allow you to study the convenient way! You decide when and where you learn, at your own pace. Your coursework can be submitted by either post or email, making it easy and hassle-free. All your course materials will then be delivered to you by post or email, so it couldn’t be easier. Our experienced and friendly tutors are there to help you every step of the way by email, so help is only a click away!

Course Content

Interior Design QLS Level 3

Unit 1 An Introduction to Colour Theory and Design Layout

• Introduction
• The colour wheel
• The effects of light and shade on colour
• Monochromatic colours
• Harmonious colours
• Scale
• Layout of a drawing

Unit 2 Sample Boards and Paint Techniques

• Mood boards
• Sample boards
• Assembling
• Paint techniques
• Blending and developing shades
• Floor finishes

Unit 3 Lighting and Window Treatments

• The different types of lighting
• The lighting design
• Window treatments
• Types of window treatment
• Curtain headings
• Blinds
• Considering materials

Unit 4 Consultations and Design Brief Management

• Initial contact
• Briefing consultation questionnaire
• Follow-up
• Final consultation
• Confidentiality
• Legal considerations
• Appointment correspondence
• Letter of intent to a contractor
• Contract tender letter
• Contract tender rejection
• The design brief

Unit 5 Perspective Drawing

• The back wall
• Establishing the eye line
• Placing the vanishing point on one-point perspective
• Two-point perspective
• Establishing the floor and ceiling lines
• The perspective grid
• Right-angle measurements
• Drawing windows
• Adding furniture to your drawings

Unit 6 Managing A Project Assessment

• Time management
• Organisational skills
• Management ability
• Order of works
• Concepts of scheduling
• The order sheet
• Costing
• Fees and hourly rates
• Quotations from suppliers
• Constructing an invoice

Unit 1 Preparing to start your business

• Why start your own business?
• Character and motivation
• Before you start: managing yourself and planning
• Market research
• Sales and profits
• Competitors
• Financial planning
• Suppliers
• Employing people
• Stock and asset management

Unit 2 Defining your business

• Deciding on the form of your business (sole trader, partnership, limited company)
• How to decide what is best for you
• Setting goals for yourself

Unit 3 Marketing

• Your product or service
• Value for money
• Competition
• Segmenting your market
• Pricing

Unit 4 Customers

• Identifying your potential customers
• Promoting your business
• Before sale
• After sale

Unit 5 Finance

• Understanding your business finances
• Working with figures
• Break-event point
• Fixed and current assets
• Cash flow
• Sources of finance
• Managing your money

Unit 6 Your business plan

• Why do you need a business plan?
• The format and structure of your business plan
• Yourself, your people. your values, your mission
• Your business model
• Your market
• Your competition
• Development
• Profit forecast
• Risks