
Explore hue, saturation, and brightness and how tint, shade, and tone shape color perception. Analyze shade and intensity to craft mood and color harmony, using accent colors.
Apply color schemes in home design using complementary colors with balanced proportions. Explore analog, adjacent (triad), divided complementary, tetradic, monotone, and monochromatic schemes, emphasizing neutral tones and a dominant color.
Assess natural light by room orientation to guide color choices, finishes, and furniture placement, using mirrors and window treatments to control brightness from north, south, east, and west.
Discover how to evaluate home lighting by comparing watts and lumens, why LED bulbs reduce watts while boosting brightness, and how the FTC requires lumens on the label.
Explore the four bulb types—incandescent, halogen, fluorescent, and LED. Compare energy use, lifespan, light quality, and environmental impact from incandescent inefficiency to LEDs' long life and recyclability.
Master lighting by layering sources on three levels—floor, middle, and ceiling or sconces—and using warm 3000 kelvin light with dimmers to balance ambience and natural light.
Explore modern interior design defined by form follows function, neutral tones, and minimal furniture, emphasizing steel, glass, and concrete, natural light, and clutter-free spaces.
Place bed on the carpet with at least 60 cm extending on three sides, or use two smaller rugs if space is tight; adjust bedside tables and lamps for proportion.
Learn how to make small rooms feel larger by applying proportion, color, and unity. Explore practical choices for walls, floors, windows, and furniture to maximize space efficiently.
Explore how optical illusions balance room proportions using color, lighting, mirrors, and vertical stripes. Learn practical tricks to make spaces feel taller, wider, or longer.
maximize room space by choosing furniture with legs and two-function pieces, use light and transparent or reflective surfaces, and keep walls and shelves spacious with layered lighting.
Choose light colors with minimal prints, simple doors, and light floors for small spaces; avoid heavy stone, clutter, symmetry, and excessive furniture, and favor floor-to-ceiling light cabinets.
Learn how to balance space and storage by selecting unused items, managing emotional attachments, and integrating storage solutions to maintain an orderly home.
Learn practical strategies to organize bathroom space efficiently with telescopic shelves, door bars and towel racks, wardrobes with mirrors, vertical drawers, and under-sink storage for towels and essentials.
Hello and welcome to my course "Interior design made easy"! I am extremely happy to have you here. If you want to
• arrange/renovate your home on your own for the first time
• you want to feel more comfortable and happier at your home or
• you just want to educate yourself in the interior design field
.. then YOU are the right student for my course. No worries, there is no previous interior design experience needed. It's the alphabet in interior design that everyone needs, so everyone is welcome.
I've started the journey in the interior design field 6 years ago and started teaching interior design more than 2 years ago on Kajabi. My instagram page balnak(dot)design reached almost 52.000 followers in less than two years. As for now, more than 2000+ students on different platforms enrolled my course and I am highly grateful for each student I've had the chance to teach some valuable information. I give my best to put the best content and graphics together so that I can provide you with the best learning experience. After all, the course represents the basics of interior design that everyone should know.
Just for your information, the course comprises the following lectures:
1.) Introduction - What you will get in this course
2) The Elements of Interior Design: Learn the basics of proper interior design. Achieve harmony in the home through the correct use of space, colors, lights, shapes and accents.
3) Let's lay the foundations: Find out what to consider when arranging a room and how to find the perfect balance between harmony, functionality and budget.
4) Chromatics: Discover everything about colors, what they mean and how to combine them correctly.
5) Lighting: Choose the right lighting fixtures for each room and correctly calculate the light in a room according to needs.
6) Interior Design Styles: Discover 13 popular interior design styles, how each is characterised, and get inspired for your own home.
7) Kitchen ergonomics: Arrange your kitchen so that it is attractive, functional, but also safe for all activities, taking into account the correct placement of appliances, the work triangle and the kitchen counter.
8) Design principles: Find out the ideal distances between furniture items and how to position them correctly in each room.
9) Designing a small space: Discover tips & tricks that help you make a small space seem big.
10) Organizing the space: Learn to optimize the space you have to the maximum, how to organize the clutter and how to efficiently store the things you need.
11) Case study: Come with me on the adventure I lived then in setting up an apartment and find out everything you need to know, from scratch!
Big hugs
Gianina