HOME & GARDEN
Interior Design for Beginners (HOME 201)
Your Guide to Home Decorating
In this three and a half-hour course you will be given the step-by-step basics of how to create a beautiful and comfortable home, including:
• How to define your personal style
• How to create a furniture plan that works
• Selecting a color scheme
• How to select area rugs, artwork and accessories
• Lighting techniques
• Suggestions for picking wallpaper and paint color
Whether you are filling a room with new furniture, redecorating an already furnished space, or just want some ideas to enhance your home, you'll get cost-effective, easy-to-follow tips and useful handouts. Bring a snack to class - there won't be a lunch break!
The instructor, Kit Davey, is a current member of the American Society of Interior Designers (A.S.I.D.) and manages her own professional interior design business, A Fresh Look.
Kit Davey
Saturday, October 24, 9:00am-12:30pm
Location: De Anza College
Room: E-33
$65 (Additional $7 materials fee payable to instructor)
Landscape Design & Gardening Skills for the Novice (HOME 202)
This class is designed to help you create a beautiful and functional landscape design for your yard. Design discussion will have you wanting to investigate new ideas and seeing how realistically your landscape dreams work. You will learn practical skills such as placement, balance, and scale. Hardscape, lighting, and irrigation will be discussed as well as how to create “curb appeal.” Organic gardening and low-maintenance landscaping will also be addressed.
There will be a hands-on exercise to help you understand how it all comes together. Bring photos of your property, a ruler, pencil, eraser and 11” X 17” graph paper.
Nancy Higgins is the owner of her own landscape design business. She is the winner of the Most Beautiful Design Award at the San Mateo Home & Garden Show and placed second at the Ventura County Fair.
Nancy’s goal is “to beautify the world, one yard at a time.”
Nancy Higgins
Saturdays, Oct. 10 & Oct. 17, 9:30am-4:00pm
Location: De Anza College
Room: G-5
$99 (Additional $5 materials fee payable to instructor during class.)
Clutterology® (HOME 203)
How to Eliminate Clutter in Your Life and Get Organized
Tired of searching for that “lost something” or stumbling over stuff throughout the house? You CAN change your environment to work for you with simple, easy and practical ideas on how to remove clutter from your life and get organized before your epitaph reads “Buried Here Under This Pile!”
We all know that we have too much stuff, but what do we do first? Easy! Start with this program and take it one simple step at a time. If you feel that your life is being controlled by your stuff, then attend this fun-filled, interactive program, where you’ll learn:
- The difference between organized and neat, and how it will affect you
- How to change your environment to work for you
- What the true cost of your stuff really is
- How to be removed from junk mail lists
- The three reasons for reading material and how to decide whether to keep it or toss it
Students are encouraged to bring old cell phones, empty printer (laser or inkjet) cartridges, one item from your kitchen and two items from your closet for charitable donation.
Nancy Miller
Monday, October 19, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Location: Foothill College
Room: 3206
$49 (Additional $30 materials fee payable to instructor during class)
Remodeling Your Home Successfully! (HOME 204)
Learn how you can make remodeling as smooth and trouble-free as possible. You will receive numerous tips on saving money and time, selecting the right contractor, reducing headaches, inconveniences, and avoiding typical problem situations.
Learn the right ways to get bids, how to maximize your investment and when to call in an architect or other design professional. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions relevant to your own remodeling project. The instructor is a licensed architect and interior designer with 20 years of experience in home remodeling.
Richard Morrison
Saturday, October 17, 1:00pm-5:00pm
Location: De Anza College
Room: E-32
$59
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