Home Decorating - Budget, Strategy, and Floor Plans

Are you thinking of redoing the interior of a room or two in your home? Attend this class before you spend a dime!
You'll learn how to:

*How to strategize a plan to get started.
*Space planning - what is it and why you need it for proper budgeting.
*Budget - how to get realistic numbers for your design project.
*Getting past the sense of being overwhelmed to put it all together in an easy to use format.

Monday, April 13, 1:00 - 3:00pm

This seminar is free, but registration is required. Call 615-371-0090, ext. 8510, or register online.

Home Decorating Seminar - Accessories 101

Monday, March 16, 1:00-3:00 pm

Join interior designer Amanda Gates for this free seminar on how to choose accessories for your home. In this workshop, you'll learn what home accessories are and why we need them; what to do with accessories and how to determine what works; how much you need; and even where to shop.

 

Although it's free, registration is required. Sign up today and learn how to accessorize your home from one of Nashville's top designers to watch.

 

Register online or call 615-371-0090, ext. 8510.



Introduction to Color

 

Join us for a Free Seminar: Introduction to Color on Monday, October 6th at 1pm.

In this class you will learn:

• Definition of colors, exploring the difference between tints, tones and shades
• Inspiration behind a color story
• How to build your color story
• How to choose colors based n their associations to mood and feeling

Amanda Gates, Amanda Gates Interior Design, will be the seminar presenter.

Register online to reserve your spot or call 615-371-0090 ext 8860

Decorating Seminar: How to Choose Fabrics for Your Home

Fabrics are a great place to start for inspiration to begin to design a room, or to complete and pull together all that is in a space. The choice in fabrics is limitless today and can get overwhelming. With colors, textures and pattern options so abundant, how do you choose? Learn how to pull fabrics together, and learn the interior design trends for windows, including options in woven blinds as well as shutters and shades. An expert in fabrication of window treatments, pillows, and bedding will also be present.

Date: Monday, September 17
Time: 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Registration: Online - Click here

Kim Costner, Allied ASID is the Principal of Kmpact Design, LLC, an Interior Design firm in Brentwood, Tennessee. Her specialty is her unbridled passion for color, texture, lighting and unique finishes that blend together in creating the perfect personal touch to design. She is constantly networking in order to develop new relationships with artists, retailers, vendors and other unique resources in Nashville, Atlanta, Chicago and New York. She is an accomplished speaker on topics such as “Hospitality by Design,” “Let Your House Speak,” and “The New Face of Hospitality.” She was recently published in a cookbook, Designed for Cooking in the South: A Collection of Recipes from the South’s Finest Designers.

A Better Nest: Making Your Home Work for You!

As we progress through life, we experience changing sets of needs that relate to how we live in our homes. Learn what it means to set-up your home to successfully Age-in-Place. This seminar will explore the single biggest challenge that opposes our efforts to Age-in-Place and debunk the most commonly held myths surrounding this topic. Receive a reference guide to take home that offers tips for ways to make your home work you and your family. For your convenience, we are offering this workshop on two days, and at different times.

Date: Monday, August 20
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Registration: Online - Click this link

Date: Thursday, August 23
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Registration: Online - Click this link

Decorating Seminar: Using Color

Date: Tuesday, March 20
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Place: Meeting Room A
Cost: Free
Registration: Register online

Date: Thursday, March 22
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Place: Meeting Room A
Cost: Free
Registration: Register online

Learn how to choose the perfect color or color scheme for your space. Bring inspiration pictures of your favorite spaces, art, and anything else that we could use as visual inspiration (even your Pinterest board). You could also include a sample floor plan drawing of the space. Be sure to include doorways and windows! We will have a faux finisher and/or a wallpaper expert on hand to answer questions about the advancements in wall treatments, as well as the comeback and popularity of wallpaper.