Susan Wells
Susan Wells is an interior decorator, author and DIY specialist offering a wealth of down and dirty decorating advice that can turn any room from blah to beautiful in only days. Known as The Decorating Coach, she draws on years of experience in the drapery industry and her journey from TV host to real estate stager. Susan reveals invaluable insider trade secrets that any novice can adapt and copy. www.thedecoratingcoach.com
Perfect Window Coverings, Susan Wells
Perfect Window Coverings 101 (All Levels)
Each step of this workroom training reveals why professionals use the opposite method of garment sewing! Learn how to pick and replicate the perfect style. Discover how to measure, fabricate and hang full-length draperies with speed and flawless accuracy. Explore making full length drapes with 3 header designs and 3 styles of valances with proportion ideas to suit any window. Receive fabric, pins & buckram to create a sample drapery header.
3 Hour Interactive Seminar.
Storganize Your Home, Susan Wells
Decorate & Storganize Your Home (General Interest)
Awaken the decorator within with creative solutions to make every room more beautiful – with every item stored or efficiently organized. Through hands-on, interactive training: learn how designers choose the perfect paint colour, enlarge small areas to look roomier, select the perfect window coverings and pillows, and hang wall art. Discover clever, attractive storage solutions to maximize every inch. Craft and sewing rooms: see how to display, disguise or discard items for functional layout and maximum impact. Leave with the tools to recreate any disorganized, dowdy room into one reflecting your personal style! Kit $7 for flash drive with reference photos and notes.
3 Hour Interactive Seminar.
Awesome Accessories, Susan Wells
Awesome Accessories (All Levels)
Splash panache throughout your home with time and money saving methods for finishing touches. Learn 3 elegant pillow styles, a perfect double-mitred corner technique used for placemats, quilt edging and more. Get the scoop on how to cut a 30 yard strip of bias tape from just 1 metre of fabric. Plus, see how to make 2 showpiece window valances in just 1 hour.
1.5 Hour Seminar.
Jazz Up Junk, Susan Wells
Jazz Up Your Junk (All Levels)
Your worn, dated furniture and accessories are about to become beautiful once again. Paint your way to a perfect home with quick techniques to transform indoor/outdoor surfaces… from vases and lamps to plastic patio chairs and ceramic tiles. Start with translucent metallic finishes and simplified window etching techniques, then graduate to granite-looking countertops and fresh cupboard finishes. Kit $5
1.5 Hour Seminar with Some Hands-On.
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