1 Week Courses

These have been designed as stand alone modules, so you can decide what you want to do and in what order. They also allow you to add to your skill and knowledge range as and when your business develops.

These modules work well for experience decorators who wish to add to their current repertoire.

Painting

Oil Based and water based paint systems.
Preparation of wall areas for emulsion painting.
Preparation of new wood for painting.
Painting previously painted woodwork.
Preparing and painting metal.
Varnishing and staining.
Exterior painting.

Interior Design

Substrates.
Preparation of walls and ceilings with lining paper prior to emulsion painting.
Preparation of walls and ceilings with lining paper (cross lining) prior to wallpapering.
Wallpapering including window reveals and arches etc.
Splicing papers and hanging boarders.
Preparing and hanging wide vinyls.

Wallpaper & Vinyl's

Survey, plan and elevation technical drawing
Colour theory and colour rendering.
Colour boards/mood board.
Client brief and research procedures.
Lighting plans.

Specialist Paint Effects - Basic

Preparation required for faux finishes.
Masking techniques for a professional finish.
Stencilling to include single plate, multi plate, stencil board and air brushing stencils on walls.
Marbling and graining.

Specialist Paint Effects - Advantage

Advance techniques of Tortoiseshell.
Malachite and lapis lazuli.
Advance marbling.
Tromph loile.

Theme Rooms

How to plan and design a theme room.
How to paint murals.
Stencilling designs from curtains and bedspreads etc.
Using colours to create clouds and stars etc.
Stencilling designs based on existing room fabrics eg. curtains bedspreads etc

2 Day Courses (weekend or weekday by arrangement)

Coving

Day 1 Basic Coving

Preparation of wall areas for coving.
Measuring cutting and standard practices for handling coving.
Applying coving to external and internal corners and finishing off.

Day 2 Advanced Coving

Ornamental coving.
Ceiling rose installation.
Cornice.