Heritage Interior Design and Starting Your Own Business

• Why start your own business?
• Character and motivation
• Before you start: managing yourself and planning
• Market research
• Sales and profits
• Competitors
• Financial planning
• Suppliers
• Employing people
• Stock and asset management

• Deciding on the form of your business (sole trader, partnership, limited company)
• How to decide what is best for you
• Setting goals for yourself

• Your product or service
• Value for money
• Competition
• Segmenting your market
• Pricing

• Identifying your potential customers
• Promoting your business
• Before sale
• After sale

• Understanding your business finances
• Working with figures
• Break-event point
• Fixed and current assets
• Cash flow
• Sources of finance
• Managing your money

• Why do you need a business plan?
• The format and structure of your business plan
• Yourself, your people. your values, your mission
• Your business model
• Your market
• Your competition
• Development
• Profit forecast
• Risks

• Define interior design
• History and its importance
• Brief timeline
• Advantages and disadvantages of ancient interior design

• Conservation
• Various wall and floor treatments found in each era
• Window treatments
• Tradition

• Keeping and changing heritage buildings
• Appropriate designs
• Inappropriate designs
• Challenges

• Various floor plans
• Local government
• Law surrounding heritage interior design
• Modern and heritage project planning

• Technological factors
• Environmental aesthetics
• Sociological considerations
• Environment pollution

• Choosing a historical era
• Choosing aspects of interior design
• Legal and planning consent
• Challenges

This course is assessed through a series of written assignments, which are submitted to your tutor to be marked. There is no external examination required.

You will study this course via distance learning, allowing you to learn wherever and whenever it suits you. With our choice of flexible study methods, you can choose the option that suits your learning style. If you choose to study online, you’ll be able to start studying through our online learning portal as soon as you receive your login details. If you choose a study pack, we will have your learning materials delivered to your door. You will also receive unlimited tutor support by email, meaning help and guidance is only ever a click away!

Once enrolled, you will have up to two years to complete this bundle (one year per course), which will allow you to work at your own pace, without the pressure of tight deadlines. You will also receive 12 months tutor support for each course, so you can feel confident that you’ll get the help you need. This bundle will take you approximately 160 hours.

At the end of this course successful learners will receive two Certificates of Achievement from the Quality License Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).