
chapters offers practical vocational design education for interior spaces, backed by industry professionals, with foundation, intermediate, and advanced tracks and hands-on workshops to start or grow your design business.
An introduction to window treatments focusing on curtains and blinds, guiding fabric selection by function and design, and outlining natural and synthetic fabrics and their mix for optimal coverage.
Identify how window treatments provide privacy, noise control, light, and texture. Match fabrics to the room’s mood, activities, and architectural style for drama or cohesion.
Explore curtain anatomy and positioning from tracks, side hems, and pleats to split draw, fullness, and length options, plus stack back, to maximize light and room height.
Explore how curtain linings, including poly cotton, satin, acoustic, and block-out variants like three pass lining, add protection, reduce transparency, enhance privacy, improve drape, and influence insulation.
Discover curtain hardware basics—from carriers and tracks to rebated rod systems, finials, and holdbacks—and learn dos and don'ts for hanging high and wide for light control and insulation.
Explore various blind styles, from roman and hobbled roman to road shades and sliding panels, and learn how fabric, lining, and operation affect light control and insulation.
Learn to measure recess blinds inside the window frame with six measurements, and face fixed blinds outside with 7–10 cm side margins and 20 cm above, 10 cm below.
Are you overwhelmed by what to put on your, or your client’s, windows? Are you paralyzed by the options and styles available and don’t know where to start? Are you fearful of making the wrong decision and wasting both money, time and fabric – either yours or your clients?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, this course is here to help.
Whatever the interior space requires, this course has been designed to give you the right tips, techniques, and approaches to make the most out of your curtains and blinds, both functionally and aesthetically.
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