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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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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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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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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Candle Making Workshop
Course Outline: Learn from the Master! Australia’s Candle chef Renna with over 20 years experience. Whether you are interested in making candles for the markets, fun, retail or give aways, this is the perfect way to get started. This workshop will teach and inspire you to make your very own soy candles. This workshop is designed to teach you simple techniques to achieve the best soy candles without spending a cent on specialised equipment. Each participant will leave with candles...
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Moulded Shapes Candle Making Workshop
Course Outline: Join the latest craze of Moulded shape candles with fun shapes, various colours and amazing scents! Learn from the Master! Australia’s Candle chef™ Renna with over 30 years’ experience. Renna is passionate about sharing her knowledge and encouraging creativity and possibilities for all candle lovers. In this class you will learn the power and skills to create healthy, fragrant, and natural Moulded candles that will make you feel good, lighten up your mood and...
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Singing Fundamentals
Course Overview: Classes are suitable for both beginners and experienced singers, and each session will give vocal diagnostics, a fun workout and performance opportunity. Students learn a set of exercises that can form the basis of a personal practice for life. Course Outline: Introductions within the group. Why do we sing? Want or need? What makes it sound bad, good or better? Exploration of phonation and vowel shapes. Emotional sounds Exercises 1 & 2 Demonstration of...
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Australian Native Plants
Course Outline: It’s hardly surprising Australian native plants have become so popular. Learn how to identify them, how they have adapted to our environment and why they’re the perfect low maintenance plants for sun or shade, to create privacy, attract birds, provide fragrance, act as fire retardants and even eat. Comprehensive course notes are provided and places are limited. Program: Introduction to the Course Origins of Australian Native Plants Identification Adaptations...
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Interior Design - Advanced
Course Outline: “Colour & Design Applications” This course is designed for those students who have already completed both “Interior Design – The Basics” and “Intermediate” levels. You will explore the Elements & Principles of Design in greater depth and apply your knowledge, using practical techniques, to various interior spaces. You will devise interior colour schemes to supplied briefs, learn more about the effect of light, texture, fabrics and composition. The course is both...
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