Develop your creativity while you build your career

In Sheridan’s two-year Interior Decorating diploma program, your creativity will stand out — and get noticed. You’ll do more than learn the fundamentals of the craft; you’ll excel. Our students consistently have taken honours in the Canadian Decorators Association (CDECA) student competition.

One of the few interior decorating diploma programs to be recognized by CDECA, Sheridan offers the comprehensive, industry-specific training you need to launch your career in interior decorating. You will:

• Work in a professional studio environment
• Get trained on industry-standard software
• Have full access to finishes, paints and samples in our decorating and design resource room
• Take field trips to showrooms, decorating studios, and decorating and design exhibitions
• Be taught by active practitioners with years of interior decorating experience and knowledge of current trends

Graduates of the Sheridan Interior Decorating diploma program had a 94% job placement rate in 2010.

 

A Full Professional Skill-Set

The Interior Decorating diploma program covers a full range of professional skills. You’ll learn to:

• Plan and decorate residential and small commercial environments, from programming to final presentation drawings
• Draft using professional standards to visually communicate details and design concepts
• Freehand draw, sketch, and apply mixed media to presentations
• Design and implement marketing and sales strategies
• Prepare portfolios and decorating presentations
• Utilize effective verbal and graphic communication skills
• Enhance visual presentations using industry software such as 2020 Kitchen and Bath, SketchUp and AutoCADD

You’ll enter the work force with a developed interior decorating sensibility, plus the business acumen to compete for clients and run an efficient, profitable business. 

Additional Benefits

 
The program includes a three-week work placement at the end of the second year, as well as periodic field trips to local design shows and product showrooms. 

In addition, Sheridan is the only interior decorating program in Canada to teach via mobile computing. Using your own laptop, you’ll work collaboratively with faculty and classmates while enjoying 24/7 access to coursework, lecture notes, assignments, presentations and other resources. Because it mimics the structure of the workplace, mobile computing gives Sheridan graduates a significant advantage in the job market. See Mobile Computing for more information.

Sheridan Interior Decorating classes take place at the Trafalgar Road Campus in Oakville, Ontario.