Velvet Karatzas on Interior Design Masterclass
Unlock the secrets of great interior design by mastering essential principles that empower you to create beautiful, balanced, and functional spaces that reflect your style and truly feel like home.
The Course
Welcome to the Velvet Karatzas Interior Design Masterclass—a course designed to give you the tools and framework to confidently turn your ideas into beautiful, functional designs. I’m Velvet Karatzas, and I’m excited to invite you to join me in this flexible, self-paced online journey that fits your schedule.
This course is everything you’d expect and so much more. I teach you what I love doing best – designing, decorating, and styling, while helping you develop your own creative voice to compose harmonious spaces that reflect your personal signature.
Why an Interior Design Course
'Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will make it his logo picture.'
A single blog post might solve a specific design problem, but this course is a long-term investment in YOU. With the right design principles, you'll be able to tackle any design challenge and create lasting solutions for your home.
Unleash your creativity
Interior design is a story—one that you can craft beautifully. This course ignites your curiosity and unleashes your creativity, all the while guiding you through fundamental design principles that make sense in practice. Hence, longevity and sustainability are also promoted. Through engaging assignments and one-on-one feedback, you'll start thinking like a designer and gain confidence in your decision-making.
About the course
In this course, you’ll have direct access to your teacher (me)! The e-book with the Introduction, 12 comprehensive modules and its Supplement is a complete how to design course. Still, it may get you this far. That’s why, I’ll be there to see you further, for that extra mile, via our two one-on-one Zoom calls.
Also, the assignments will be challenging enough to get you thinking like a designer. Each assignment has been structured to get you to research, think critically, train your eyes and get you familiarized with the actual design process.
You won’t feel lost and alone. I'll be there for you, assisting you, and offering feedback, support and inspiration on everything you do.
The course is self-paced and easy to follow. You can start any time, with no fixed start dates. It is flexible to suit your schedule. And obviously, you can rest assured that you will get lifetime access to all the materials, including future updates of this course.
The Exciting Journey to Interior Design Starts Here
A learning experience like no other
With my engineering discipline, I don’t beat around the bush. I have been trained to find solutions to real problems; and with 20+ years of experience, I teach you, in this course, how you can go about it too. I have broken down my process for you so you can apply, adapt, and refine it to fit your needs. More importantly though, it's about training your eye, guiding your editing skills and nurturing your creativity.
Learn together
I'll walk you through a real client project to give you a behind-the-scenes look at my design process. Together, we’ll explore, learn, and create—making your design journey truly unique.
Hello, I'm Velvet
I warmly invite you to join me for this exciting journey. In this course, you’ll learn how to translate ideas into stunning interiors with confidence, at your own pace and time.
Interior design is one of my true passions that surfaced very early on. I always took beauty quite seriously. It matters to me. It inspires me. It challenges me. It's been an intuitive knowledge to me that it gives me pleasure, ever since I can remember. I need beauty and beautiful surroundings. And although I studied civil engineering, I always knew that interior design was my calling. It is my way of making this tiny piece of my world more beautiful.
Thankfully, my civil engineering studies and experience taught me the discipline behind solving problems and the methodology in transforming ideas into real structures. I have the 'know how.' So in retrospect, it was a good place to start from.
Blogging about design came about as a need to share my knowledge in good hope to turn anyone to a better home decorator. Today, I teach curious, creative, and wonderful students helping them unleash their imagination and putting design principles to good use, in order to create happy and beautiful spaces to live in.
So, are you ready to create your own beautiful haven? Let’s start crafting your dream home today!
Course Pillar Outline: What You Get
Pillar 1: Core Structure
- An Introduction Lesson: Getting to know me - FREE to preview
- 12 Lessons created exclusively for this course as beautiful PDFs to print, read at your pace and keep forever. Topics covered include colors, materials, patterns, textures, lighting and composition;
- List of complimentary suggested reading links from the blog, after each lesson, that dig deeper into specific areas.
- Links to complimentary videos that discuss specific areas in home decorating.
Pillar 2: Assignments
- Homework assignments after each lesson (optional, but highly recommended). Although some may be real fun, they will challenge you and prep you for what's to come later;
- Feedback for every homework assignment you submit. That way you will keep track of your progress and level of comprehension.
The purpose of these assignments is to help you grow the necessary skills to translate your ideas.
BONUS: The Eye-Training Bootcamp Assignment! You will have access to it after completing all of the course.
Pillar 3: Extras
- 2 LIVE ZOOM chats with me - the first comes after completing Lesson No 5 and its respective homework; the second one right after submitting Lesson's No 12 homework.
- A Supplement with additional beautiful complimentary PDFs of useful infographics as reference to download, print and enjoy forever;
- Lesson No 11 - The Journey: I get to walk you through an in-depth (behind the scenes) case study of a real client project. This is where I show you my actual design process being applied, for you to adopt and adapt.
What You Can Do After Completing this Interior Design Course:
- Define the intent of any design project.
- Understand how to create design flow.
- Understand the value of texture.
- Develop an interior style concept that fits you.
- Create visual stories after your own voice.
- Match patterns.
- Understand how colors interact within a space.
- Develop a better understanding of various materials.
- Develop an understanding of light within a space.
- Create balanced compositions.
- Create conversation between your favorite pieces.
- Use sight lines to guide one's eye.
- Finesse your eye so you can edit your space with confidence.
- Learn to do your research before reaching a design decision.
What people are saying
In 2021 I had the pleasure of taking Velvet Karatzas on Interior Design Masterclass and I was so happy to gain as much creative as well technical interior design knowledge. This combination is unique and you will not find it in any other course. Velvet is a wonderful, patient and inspirational teacher!”
— Valentina Goryun
I found this course truly inspiring. When the time comes to redecorating my house, I'll make sure not to repeat my past design crimes. The entire course has helped me change my point of view, so thank you Velvet so much for these insightful lessons!
— Maria Kotsifaki
Velvet is a very experienced interior designer. Τhrough her course and in combination with Velvet's love for her work and her infectious character, one acquires a firm grasp on interior design. Everyone will love it. Velvet is an exceptional teacher.
— Anna Fotopoulou
Contact Me
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