Home & Garden courses available in Sydney’s Northern Beaches and Mosman area. Enrol online today.
Become a DIY superstar! Learn cake decorating from an award winning trainer, get sustainable and manage your own bee hive from the comfort of your garden or give your home a fresh look and a touch of your personal style with an interior design course. Why pay a professional when you can learn to do it yourself!
Interior Design - The Basics
Course Outline Planning to redecorate or simply refresh a living space or complete property? Prepare a number of style boards – not only your anchor to keep you on track, but also to use as your navigation tool for communication to suppliers, architects and tradespeople. Learn about different historic and thematic styles and the importance of the elements and principles of design and layout. A strong focus is placed on colour theory, the effect of light, and finding ways to easily...
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Property Styling for Living or Selling
Course Outline If you are feeling overwhelmed by your house and its contents and just don’t know where to start or simply looking to update, replan and add value to your property, then this short workshop is for you. Styling your property is not about a full interior design project, but about making a difference to your home on a reasonable budget. Don’t become paralysed by the number of choices available in colour, furnishings or accessories – whether you are working with your...
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Interior Design - Intermediate
Course Outline This interior design course is for anyone who has a basic theoretical knowledge of colour and design and wishes to develop their skills and knowledge and apply it to their home. It is helpful if you have already completed “Interior Design- The Basics” 8 week course. This is not an essential requirement, as we will continually refer and refresh our understanding of the Principles & Basics of Colour Theory. We will study the application of colour schemes and colour...
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Plant Propagation
Course Outline Why buy plants when you can propagate them? Take home at least 20 free plants from this workshop. Learn the many methods of propagating, including cuttings, division, layering, grafting and more. Grow your own perennials, shrubs and trees, including fuchsias, frangipanis, hydrangeas, lavenders, roses, camellias, orchids, maples and more. Plants and comprehensive notes are provided and bookings are essential. Course Program Introduction to the Workshop Sowing seeds...
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A Taste of Property Styling - Mosman Festival 2021
This short workshop provides a taste of our full course as part of the Mosman Festival 2021 Course Outline If you are feeling overwhelmed by your house and its contents and just don’t know where to start or simply looking to update, replan and add value to your property, then this is for you. Styling your property is not about a full interior design project, but about making a difference to your home on a reasonable budget. Don’t become paralysed by the number of choices available...
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Organic Gardening
Course Outline: Whether you have a tiny balcony, garden or acreage, learn how to grow your own herbs, vegetables and fruit trees. Find out about different methods of recycling, including composting and worm farms. Discover crop rotation, companion planting and how to get rid of pests, diseases and weeds, without using any chemicals. Program Introduction to the Course Soil Types and Potting Mix Composting, Worm Farms, Recycling, etc.. Herbs Vegetables Fruit Trees Crop Rotation...
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Transform your Furniture with Chalk Finish Paint
Course Outline Have you always wanted to learn to update your furniture but aren’t sure where to start? Do you want to refresh that bedside table, chair or mirror that you’ve had for ages or perhaps update a family heirloom and fall in love with it again? Reuse and upcycling are important elements in the fight to preserve our environment, and this class will show you how to renovate furniture items to give them a future purpose. This course will take the form of a tutorial and...
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Basic Pattern Making
Students will draft and make a basic straight skirt with zip and waist band pattern to their exact measurements. This pattern will be then used to make the skirt in fabric of the students choice. A further draft will be made using their base skirt pattern to design a skirt of their choice. Students must have a basic sewing knowledge, not recommended for beginner. Reqirements: Long ruler (40cm Minimum) Tape Measure Paper scissors Fabric scissors 2 meters vylene (for tracing) Fabric...
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Kitchen Medicine
Course Outline Prior to the 1970’s the main gathering source for our food, veggies and small goods were not the huge juggernaut supermarkets, and malls of today. Our everyday supplies came from the from local markets, the greengrocer, local butcher, fishmonger, baker and candlestick maker or our garden beds. The family kitchen was a most valuable resource as the first stop medicine chest.Historically our elders would pass this information down – with the increasing fragmentation...
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Cupcake Decorating Workshop
Find out the secrets behind sculpting fondant and basic piping in this hands-on cupcake decorating course. In this cupcake decorating course, you will explore simple decorating techniques to make beautiful cupcakes that are easy to do at home. You will also find out some creative tips for how to achieve a professional finish using low-cost tools and equipment that are easy to find in most kitchens. By the end of this course, you will have 6 decorated cupcakes in various differing...
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