WORKSHOPS RUN EVERY 4-6 - next series will run in SEPTEMBER 2019 -
register your interest HERE and we will keep you posted!
Q: Who are the workshops aimed at?
A: my typical client
~ Busy women usually with a creative streak who need a hand bringing their designs to reality. My past clients at Heliotrope have been professional women or busy housewives and mums who have a renovation or building project looming large and need another pair of hands.
~ I help to sift through her interiors ideas and bring these to life in her home. It’s a partnership and our relationship is based on a mutual understanding of her style. She can trust in my ability to translate that style on time and on budget.
Q: what happens in a workshop?
A: learn design tools and apply them to your own home
~ Workshops recreate that partnership in small groups. Construction being a slightly male dominated environment building projects can seem a slightly one dimensional environment for clients and designers to live in for more than a few months.
~ A combination of 10 or 15 minute mini-lectures on specific aspects of design and hands-on practical exercises. In between these I make the tea while clients begin to get inspired and make design decisions with 1:1 help as and when necessary.
WHAT YOU WILL COME AWAY WITH
- armfuls of notes on how to design and personalise your home
& hands on exercises
(as listed below)
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- a bag of samples from the colour lirary (heliotrope's samples shed)
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- 1 year membership of the colour library
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new friends, confidence to design your home in your own style & some useful contacts
may workshop
10am-12.30pm
in Broad Chalke
(price excl vat)
June workshop
2pm-4.30pm
in Stockbridge
(price excl vat)
Renovation goals
Working out and getting what want from your property
Focus on function & form; design brief exercise; plans; schedule of works exercise; which professionals to engage & when.
Interior Style
Working out which style direction to take
Looking at trends and styles; inspiration exercise; mood and sample boards; budget considerations & sourcing.
Design Tools & Tips
Working with what you already have - style and design solutions
Using light, space and colour to design a base; moodboards, sampleboards and plans exercise.
Wellbeing At Home
Fusing together practicality, wellbeing and aesthetics
Green theory and eco-chic - trends and what's here to stay; wellbeing in practice - smart technology, low VOCs etc.