Membership Associations and Societies
Professional associations and societies offer accreditation, training opportunities, industry news, new friendships, and business relationships.
Our courses are well-known and very well-respected in the world of design and our students and graduates are eligible to join several societies and associations.
Bonus Small Business Software
Enroll online before November 30, 2008 and receive a free copy of Organizer Pro.
This easy-to-use business organizer is the perfect companion for any designer on the go. You can schedule and track all your appointments and projects, set task priorities, manage your business contacts, and generate automatic email reminders and reports.
Enroll online for any of our comprehensive design courses and we'll send you this valuable design resource absolutely free.
Design Courses Available from QC Design
Interior Decorating Course
If you're a creative and passionate individual who wants to make a career doing what you love, our interior decorating course is right for you. Our course is the perfect way for you to complete professional design training in the comfort of your own home.
Professional interior decorating makes a house feel like a home. You'll be able to design functional spaces for your clients that are beautiful and reflect their unique personalities and lifestyles. You'll be amazed at the sense of satisfaction and pleasure you experience with an interior design job well done!
Our course is specially designed to help you break into this exciting industry. You'll gain all the professional interior design skills and knowledge you need to start your own business and succeed as a professional designer.
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Home Staging Course
Our unique distance education staging course gives you the most comprehensive home staging training available anywhere. No other course gives you all the knowledge, skills, and support you need to break into the staging industry and succeed.
To be successful in home staging, you need a solid foundation of skills and extensive business knowledge. With our course, you'll gain all the resources and the confidence you need to excel. With just a small investment of your time, you can master home staging and understand how to launch and grow your own home staging business.
The business portion of our home staging program has just been completely upgraded and expanded. There is now even more business start-up, marketing, and pricing information, as well as advice on how to find clients, close sales, work with contractors, and stage vacant homes. Plus, your course now includes easy-to-use in-home consultation templates—simply fill them in on-site and leave them with your clients.
When you graduate from our home staging course, you'll receive a double certification in home staging and interior redesign. Our home staging program was developed around our redesign course, as a solid understanding of this field is essential to stage homes to their best advantage. Your handsome diploma will certify you as an International Staging and Redesign Professional (ISRP™).
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Interior Redesign Course
Our interior redesign course gives you all the skills and knowledge you need to start a successful career in this dynamic and highly rewarding field. You'll master interior redesign practices, and even learn how to find clients and effectively sell your interior redesign services.
Interior redesign dramatically transforms a space by making the most of what's already there. With our interior redesign course, you'll develop your "designer's eye" and understand how to work with your client's belongings to create the best designed space possible. Most homeowners have good furniture and accessories to work with, but they just don't have the knowledge or the skills to create functional and harmonious designs. With our interior redesign course, you'll be able to breathe new life into their rooms!
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Color Consultant Workshop
Our intensive, one-day workshop certifies you as a professional color consultant. Led by award-winning interior decorator and International Staging Professional Darlene Hall-Barrett, the workshop gives you the skills and knowledge to offer professional color-consulting services. It's a perfect complement to your current design skills or, if you are new to the design world, a great way for you to break into the industry.
The color consultant workshop allows for a fantastic, hands-on learning experience in a fun, group environment. Your day consists of interactive lectures covering basic and advanced color theory, color psychology, color schemes, color relationships, and color value, selecting interior and exterior paint colors, wall treatments, and much more.
You'll complete practical exercises designed to develop your skills in custom-color reproduction, color selection, creating color schemes, and choosing textiles. Your exercises are professionally evaluated after the workshop and returned to you with personalized comments and advice along with your Professional Color Consultant diploma.
You'll also receive a selection of course booklets from our distance-education interior design course, which you can read at your leisure for additional information and colour tips. These booklets are completely up to date, very comprehensive, and beautifully presented.
Professional Organizer Workshop
We're thrilled to announce the debut of our brand new workshop: Become an International Organizing Professional. This two-day workshop led by Darlene Hall-Barrett, will give you all the necessary skills, knowledge, and tools you need to start your own successful business as a professional organizer.
Given the nature of today's hectic society, the demand for skilled professionals in this field is greater than ever! We are living in a world where homeowners find themselves ruled by their possessions and are too busy, or too overwhelmed, to turn things around. Plus, people are spending more time at home, making the need for a beautifully organized “retreat” even more widespread.
We'll show you how you can use your natural talent of getting organized to start a successful business and pursue countless market opportunities. At the workshop you'll receive an information-packed guidebook for the professional organizer, business templates, contact software and much more! You'll leave this workshop motivated and inspired to start turning disorderly spaces into sanctuaries of absolute beauty.
