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Internationally renowned interior designer Rita Konig teaches her first-ever online class. The course breaks down the techniques and materials she uses, so you can be inspired and apply them to your own projects.
Filmed across two of Rita’s recent personal projects and four of her favourite suppliers, the course gives unprecedented access to one of the finest interior designers working today. Learn how Rita puts designs together as she walks through real projects, room-by-room.
You’ll spend over six hours with Rita, broken down into 10 to 15 minute episodes, giving you a real depth of design knowledge. You’ll learn her methods directly from her London studio.
Rita’s favourite suppliers, materials and design dictums are listed in a series of downloadable ‘black books’, so what you’ve learnt on the course stays with you.
Create Academy lets you learn from the best creatives working today. Everyone has the ability to create, but sometimes we need the right tools and inspiration in front of us to get started. Our curated online courses are developed with leading figures across design, art, literature and photography, so you'll learn directly from some of the most highly regarded creatives in the world - their processes, techniques and mindset - equipping you to develop your own projects and step up your creativity.
We're very excited to be launching with renowned interior designer, Rita Konig. Rita's effortless style has made her one of today’s most sought after interior designers, with her writing and work a staple of Vogue, The New York Times, House & Garden and The Wall Street Journal. She is an expert at bringing refined, relaxed comfort to a home, and is passionate about sharing her expertise and empowering people to decorate and design their homes themselves.
Be inspired as you meet renowned interior designer Rita Konig. She welcomes you to the course and explains that no matter what stage of life you’re at, knowing the processes and techniques of interior design can help you make a beautiful home.
Rita helps you develop confidence by revealing how pieces of your history and childhood inform you, giving you foundations upon which to build your taste.
Rita breaks down the process she uses, step-by-step, starting by asking a crucial question: how do you want to live?
Whatever your budget, through structuring it into the ‘budget and purse’ system, Rita explains how you can squeeze the most out of your money, as well as show you how a restricted budget can actually make for a more comfortable room.
Look deeper into how each room in your home functions as Rita takes you to her design studio for phase one of her design process: layout. In this lesson, she shows you how a good lay out is the key to creating a more comfortable living environment.
Following the right process can help you get the electrics in a project right first time. Rita shows you all of the lessons she’s learnt by showing you how to draw your own electrical layout plan.
Rita takes you to large rural auction house and shows you how to pull out the right pieces for your home. Learn more about what to look out for when you shop and how to make big budget savings.
In this next phase of the process, Rita walks you through drawing a colour palette together, advises how to get options up on your walls without creating confusion, and helps you consider the flow of colours throughout your house.
From years of experience Rita explains how to get best out of your decorators, from keeping a paint schedule to spotting a roller or brush finish.
By breaking down the various different types of fabric Rita teaches you how to use texture in your designs. She also reveals a few of her go-to fabrics.
Discover how to put a scheme together in this demonstration, with Rita designing a room in real time.
Rita’s country house in Yorkshire, North Farm, has been featured in Elle, House & Garden, The Times and The Independent. In this lesson Rita explains exactly how she arrived at the scheme for the sitting room.
Your kitchen is a room, and should feel warm and soulful. Rita breaks down the lessons she’s learnt: layout, storage, mixing surfaces and heights, the perfect banquette and why islands aren’t always such a good idea. She also goes through her kitchen at North Farm.
In this lesson Rita goes through her London kitchen, and reveals the best places to save money when designing a kitchen.
By keeping her lighting simple Rita emphasises mood rather than design. In this lesson she reveals why lamps and lampshades are still the most pleasing source of light, as well as why pendant lights require real attention.
Suzanis, dhurries, flat weaves, berbers: Rita demystifies the world of rugs in this lesson and takes you through her go-to finishes for flooring.
Stone and tiles are a big ticket item in your designs. Rita takes you to Lapicida, a stone specialist and explains how she often gets maximum impact with budgets by using ceramic tiles, as well as when it’s best to go ahead and use the real thing.
Bathrooms can easily become sanitised and utilitarian spaces. In this lesson Rita explains why she often uses wood, standalone furniture and vintage pieces to soften the bathroom, and then gives a tip on which materials work best for tongue-and-groove.
Rita takes you through her bathroom at North Farm, decision-by-decision.
The sitting room is all about comfort, and in this lesson Rita teaches you how to bring comfort and luxury to your designs by following a few simple rules: have different levels of seating and light, layer the room’s furniture and always ensure there’s a table close to each seat.
Rita runs through how she works with wallpaper and other specialist finishes, while reminding you that the walls, though important, are the back drop to the main event.
Rita explains all the technicalities of getting your upholstery right - percentage fill of cushions, ratio of feather to down, upholstering vs recovering, and how to buy a really good quality second-hand sofa that can then be recovered.
Hanging pictures is all about scale and finding the right wall. Rita runs you through the various different techniques she uses for laying out her pictures, and explains how the best layout will mean your favourite picture isn’t always in the right place.
Rita takes you to one of her favourite boutique shops - Cutter Brooks - and explains that even if you can’t afford anything it’s always worth visiting to get inspiration.
Curtains and blinds add real finish to a room, and Rita breaks down how she chooses fabrics and linings that finishes the room and hang well together.
For Rita, china and glass is an exciting way to add layers to a design. In this lesson she advises the best way to build a collection, as well as how to buy good second hand china.
Rita breaks down what makes a great laundry room.
Beds should be the core of a home: Rita encourages to prioritise making your bed beautiful and comfortable, and reminds you that ‘when someone comes to stay they’re not going to remember the colour of the walls, they’re going to remember the how comfortable they were.’
Rita takes you through the main bedroom at North Farm, step by step.
Rita takes you through the second bedroom at North Farm, step by step.
Rita takes you through the third bedroom at North Farm, step by step.
Rita gets into hardware, as sometimes it’s the smaller details that make a house.
Rita visits Daylesford, one of her preferred homeware shops and teaches how to pull the best pieces from their collection.
Rita wraps up by explaining that mistakes are part of the journey of putting a house together, and that waiting for your house to be finished misses the point that decorating and design is an ongoing process.