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Discover how space planning drives successful interiors by aligning floor use with comfort, flow, and mood. Learn to visualize a room's feel, open and airy or cozy.
Through effective space planning, efficiently planned spaces breathe, are functional, and flow well to create the desired mood, while poorly planned spaces feel claustrophobic, cluttered, and dysfunctional.
Explore types of space plans from simple floor plans to detailed 3d renderings, and learn how floor space, wall and ceiling spaces, sightlines, and bubble diagrams shape interiors.
Explore open versus closed floor plans, weighing cost, functionality, and home value, and learn how hybrids with features like French doors and collapsible walls balance openness with privacy.
Explore how scale and proportion, line, balance, rhythm, and focal points guide space planning, ensuring balanced, inviting interiors that respect traffic flow and furniture and room relationships.
Apply space planning tips to make rooms feel bigger. Paint the ceiling lighter or the same as walls; use light walls and floors, keep clutter down with hidden storage.
Ask about primary and secondary functions, conflicts, occupancy, accessibility, and flow to guide space planning; then specify furniture, storage, and lighting to meet functional requirements.
All rooms are first and foremost functional spaces, in which we live, eat, entertain, sleep, read, dress, bathe etc. If the room does not meet its first critical criteria of functionality – it really won’t matter how beautiful it looks!
So before you begin to consider how the room will look and feel, you need to plan the space.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
All of our courses have been designed to be stand-alone courses and can be done in any order. However, if you are interested in taking all of our courses – we’d like to recommend an order in which to do them (although it’s not required):
· Popular Interior Design Styles and How to Use Them
· Design Principles & Elements in Interiors
· Introduction to Colour In Interiors
· Textiles & Fabrics
· Introduction to Space Planning
· Staging and Styling Interior Spaces
· Simple Guide to Curtains and Blinds in Interiors
· Simple Guide to Furniture Styles in Interiors