6 Creative Ways To Refresh Your Home This Season

Design Your Own Paper Lamp

Lighting is an essential part of any home; it has the power to affect the mood, ambiance, and overall feel of a room. In this course, paper-folding artist Kate Colin takes you through the steps involved in designing and creating your own lampshade using paper. Just like those paper shades and lanterns you see in Ikea. But better!

You’ll discover paper-folding techniques inspired by origami, Bauhaus, and Scandinavian design to create unique, yet functional lighting accessories to decorate your home. You’ll even learn how to incorporate an LED light into your shade and how to install it safely in a room of your choice.

Floral Arrangement Design With Seasonal Blooms

Plants and flowers are great for instantly bringing life to a room. It’s one of the best things you can do to refresh your home. But learning how to choose and display them is an art. Graeme Corbett, the founder of Bloom and Burn, has been teaching workshops on flower arrangement for ten years.

Join over 700 students who’ve taken this course so far in exploring how to source, arrange, and preserve unique floral designs ready to display in your home with Graeme as your guide.

It’s especially useful for autumn since he focuses on working with locally grown and seasonal blooms. He also shares his advice on growing your own flowers and photographing them for social media.

Interior Design Fundamentals: Mastering Colour And Texture

If you’re looking for a more complete makeover, this course is a great place to start. Alongside Brooklyn-based interior designer Shari Francis, you’ll learn the fundamentals of balancing colour, light, and texture to design a space that reflects your personality. You’ll need some knowledge of floor plans to get the most out of this course but no other experience is necessary so it’s ideal for beginners.

Shari’s work has been featured in publications including Architectural Digest and The Wall Street Journal, and, in this course, she takes you behind the scenes of her entire creative process. Covering everything from colour theory and material samples, to floor plans and installation. 

Geometric Handmade Molds: Design 3D-faceted Objects

Creating your own interior accessories is an opportunity to make your home truly unique. This brand new course which launched earlier this month is designed to equip you with the tools needed to create your own geometric accessories using handmade molds.

Alongside designer Phil Cuttance, learn to work with concrete and acrylic resin to create functional, 3D objects to decorate your home. As a final project, you’ll create a contemporary vase but the possibilities with this technique are quite literally endless. 

Contemporary Tapestry Weaving

No home would be complete without some artwork to decorate the walls. With tapestry, you can create art that brightens up even the dullest of rooms. Self-taught artist Marion Weymes is passionate about the contemporary tapestry art she creates and shares with over 11K followers on Instagram. Go behind the scenes of her weaving process and create unique woven artwork that breathes new life into your interior. 

Upcycling Vintage Furniture with Painting Techniques

Refreshing your home doesn’t have to mean buying new things. Furniture upcycling is a simple way to make a big difference and it’s a trend that’s taken creatives by storm over the last few years. Chloe Kempster is a furniture artist whose work has been featured by the likes of Country Living Magazine and The BBC.

Her techniques go beyond just a quick lick of paint. Using chalk paint and wax, she transforms forgotten pieces of furniture into unique works of art. In this course, which has received 100% positive reviews, she takes you through the process from start to finish.