Interior design is not just about how a space looks. It is about how people feel, behave, and connect within it. This module explores what makes design meaningful and helps you move beyond decoration into true spatial storytelling. Learn how layout, material, and mood come together to influence experience, and why great interiors always begin with purpose. 

Some rooms feel right the moment you enter them. In this module, you will uncover why. Learn the principles and elements of design – balance, rhythm, contrast, and unity – and how they work together to create coherence, energy, and emotional impact. You will build fluency in the visual language that designers use to bring order and beauty to space. 

Drawing is one of the core thinking tools of interior design. In this module you will explore the visual techniques designers use to plan and communicate ideas clearly. You will learn to interpret simple layout plans, work with basic scale and symbols, and create clear, intentional sketches that convey zoning, flow and proportion. Using pencil, pen or accessible digital tools, you will discover how drawing helps you understand space, not just present it. 

Rooms are not static. People enter, pause, pass through. Design begins to speak when it guides that movement with care. In this module, you’ll learn how to zone space with purpose; shaping how a room is used, not just how it looks. From simple circulation flows to spatial philosophies like feng shui, you’ll explore how design becomes choreography. 

Placement changes everything. A chair turned slightly, a table centred or offset; each choice shifts how a room feels and flows. In this module, you’ll study furniture not as decoration, but as structure and signal. You’ll learn to compose with scale and spacing, to hold attention or release it, and to shape a room’s energy through thoughtful, deliberate arrangement

Design style is never just visual; it carries meaning, identity, and memory. In this module, you’ll explore how texture, colour, and finish contribute to the tone of a space. From raw timber to polished chrome, you’ll learn to make choices that support narrative, coherence, and emotional depth; and to design with a voice that feels both personal and deliberate. 

Design lives in the details. This module invites you to refine, pare back, and perfect. From joinery to trim, texture to light interaction, you’ll learn how small choices elevate design from functional to poetic — and how restraint can be its own form of elegance. 

Light draws the eye. Sound shapes stillness. Together, they create the mood that lingers long after a space is seen. In this final module, you’ll explore how shadow, tone, echo and glow influence perception and memory. You’ll learn to work with atmosphere as both material and message, crafting spaces that feel composed, quiet and complete.