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Teaching Interior Decorating
and Design

Hello and Welcome to my interior studio and class room.

When I began teaching Interior Decorating there were no acceptable programs, books or visuals. So, over the years, I developed my own Course. Simultaneously, I began my clientele practice and speaking engagements for Professional Trade Shows and Conferences.

It is now my privilege to share the Course' Text, Visual Aids and Tools with other Teachers and their Students. I hope you will find it to be a complete and easily administered program in your Classrooms.

Here's Just Some Of What You Can Learn:

Product Knowledge ● Design Techniques ● Business Acumen

Learn Carol's 'Room Analysis' Method
Predict Outcomes with the 'Arrows' System
Trade Secrets with Common Sense Procedures
Draw Rooms in Minutes; Emulate by Coloring
Identify Architectural Strengths & Weaknesses
No Random Guessing. Be Confident of Choices
Know Height, Size, Quantity and Cost Formulas
Plan Presentations in a Fraction of Typical Time
Eclectically Mix Furniture Styles and Accessories
Learn to Speak the Indigenous Trade Vernacular

Be able to Teach Proof of the "Why's and How's"
Discover all the Myths & Truths of Color Control
Working Around Inventory; Merge Furniture Styles
Knowledge of All Products and Estimating Expertise
Furniture History, Styles, Construction and Selection
Confidently Find, Arrange and Stage Your Decorating
Time Management, Accountability, Fees, Layered Sales

Save with New Prices and New Programs:

How to Teach Interior Decorating

Now $475! (Old price $600)

8-Lesson Instructor’s Self-Correcting Workbook
1-Resource Directory with Career Section
8-Companion Power Point Lessons
120 Piece Magnetic Template
Color Wheel

$475.00

Optional Instructors’ Seminar at Half-Price

Annual 2-day Weekend Retreat Seminar
“Walking Through the Blueprints”
Jacksonville FL. Request Details

$195.00

Student’s Interior Decorating Kit

8 Lesson Self-Correcting Workbook

Synchronized Companion Power Point Program
Furniture Templates

$99.00

Workbook and DVD Descriptions

PREDICTING OUTCOMES
Starting Places, Getting Organized, the Original 'Arrows' Technique, Room Analysis, Drawing in Minutes, Leading Patterns, Color Boards
ROOM ARRANGEMENTS
Spatial Use, Groupings, Functions, Traffic Patterns, Room Size Illusions, Furniture Selection Tips, Furniture Placements, Lines in Design
COLOR MYTHS & TRUTHS
Contrast Significance, Proportions, Backdrops, Eye Tricks, Color Wheel & Schemes, Size Illusions, Rhythm and Color Flow
WALL DESIGNS AND PRODUCTS
Walls, Paint, Wallpaper, Creative Ideas, Room Size Illusions, Ceilings, Mirrors, Estimating Prices and Quantity Formulas
AN OUTFIT FOR EVERY WINDOW
Meeting Specs, Window Types, Fabrics, Creative Ideas, Yardage Charts, Centers of Interest, Treatment Styles, Hardware and Formulas

FLOORING, FIBERS AND TEXTILES
Tiles, Hardwood, Carpeting, Oriental Rugs, Fibers & Textiles Weaves, Fabric Selection and Prices and Quantity Formulas
FURNITURE HISTORY & STYLES
Working Around Inventory, Quick-Study Identifications, Authentic & Eclectic Mixing and Affinities, Construction and Antique-ing.
ACCESSORIES: THE FINAL TOUCH
Selections & Displays, Creative Methods, Resources and Creative Ideas Finding Treasures Around the House and Careers

RESOURCE DIRECTORY
Market Contacts, Insider Information, Design Magazine Accesses, Buying Tips, Wholesaling, DVD 'Interior Decorating Careers & Design and and Drawing ideas

WORKBOOKS COME IN A BINDER TO ADD YOUR OWN DRAWINGS, PICS & PHOTOS

Teacher Training and Tools

Instruction, Planning & Certificate

Integrated guidance related to all Interior Decorating and Design subjects are incorporated throughout the Text discourse and DVD dialogues.
Teacher's Student module planning has both pre and post tests plus activities and real-life problem solving. Inter-active disciplines include Math, History, Language Arts, Public Speaking and making an intangible idea into a visual outcome with drawings and color boards.
An optional Certificate of Expertise is available with each Teacher Edition. A copy of the Test is included with each purchase.
Supplemental Seminar: Once a year in March, a 2-day Weekend Retreat is held for additional training in Jacksonville, FL. Six 2 hour sessions take each attendee through a total home floor plan with selections and professional presentation. Offered at a discounted 1/2 price of $295.00. E-mail requests for next dates and syllabus.
Support, advice and answers anytime: carol@carolchopinteriors.com.

120 Piece Magnetic Template and Color Wheel INCLUDED!

This ingenious tool moves the 1/4" scale furniture at will. Because each piece gets attached to the magnetic grid, the display can be held up vertically or used to copy a variety of room arrangements

Understanding color schemes is directly related to room size illusions, proportion, contrast and the power of color treatments. SHOWN LEFT: The back-to-back view of the color wheel.