Considered one of the most prominent interior designers working today, Corey Damen Jenkins creates elevated spaces for clients across the globe and believes everyone should have access to great design. Now he’s teaching you how to build bold, functional interiors on any budget. From mood boards to space planning, learn how to embrace the design process, make choices with confidence, and turn your home into a true haven.

Syllabus

Meet Your Instructor: Corey Damen Jenkins

Corey explores his design influences in Detroit and his accomplishments as a designer. He outlines what he will teach and teases the living room set designed specifically for this class.

Creating Stylish and Functional Spaces

The key to developing as a designer is to discover your own personal style. Corey teaches you how to look to the fashion world to inspire your design and then how to incorporate fashion concepts into a visionary mood board for your projects.

Defining Your Style

Corey believes spaces should perform well in terms of function while also being satisfying and beautiful to look at. In this lesson, Corey provides a guide for approaching every room with a high level of respect, dignity, and seriousness.

Coordinating Color

Corey introduces his bold, signature approach for using powerful, jubilant color in unexpected ways, and he demonstrates his process for the next step in his design process: a color board.

Mixing and Matching Patterns

In this lesson, Corey demystifies the process of mixing and matching patterns and demonstrates how to create visual balance with a bin full of fabrics.

Customizing Your Window Treatments

Using shades and drapery from his own projects, Corey breaks down the main types of window treatments and gives students his five steps for choosing the best window treatment for each space.

Finding Your Light

The right combination of lighting can make or break your space. Corey breaks down the three categories of lighting in any space and also brings out some of his favorite statement pieces: sconces.

Space Planning

Corey shares his best practices for designing for every kind of space—no matter your budget—by prioritizing your spending and identifying the pieces worth splurging on.

Maximizing Your Design Budget

It’s time to break out the floor plans as Corey and his senior designer Heather take you behind the curtain into their process of arranging furniture and fabrics—first on the workspace table and then in an interactive photoshop demonstration.

Living Room Walkthrough

Corey takes members on a field trip to tour the living room space designed specifically for this class. He walks you through many examples in the room of his signature design style, called “Eclectic Exuberance.”

Design Is for Everyone

Corey reflects on the significance of his journey as a man of color in interior design, and invites students to use the process of discovery to build confidence in themselves.