Someone has just moved into a first proper home, stares at a bare living room, and has no idea where to begin with colour, fabric or how a curtain is supposed to hang. That exact moment is what Interiordezine seems built for. Run by Lee and Chris Brown for more than two decades, the site treats decorating as a skill that can be taught step by step, not a talent you either have or you don't. The first thing on offer is a free ten-lesson interior decorating ecourse that arrives by email, one lesson at a time, which suits a beginner who would rather learn at a slow pace than wade through a thick book.
Alongside that sits a second free course devoted entirely to curtains and drapery. It runs through styles, fabrics, colour choices, decorative rods and tracks, and the small accessories that decide whether a window looks finished or improvised. Window treatments confuse a lot of people, so giving them their own structured course is a sensible call. The depth here is the selling point. Plenty of decorating sites scatter a few blog posts and call it guidance; Interiordezine sequences the material into lessons with a beginning and an end.
For readers who want more than the free material, a separate area at courses.interiordezine.com holds paid or extended online courses. These go further into colour theory, curtains, furniture and lighting, which are the four areas where amateur decorating tends to fall apart. A third subdomain handles the individual lesson pages for the email courses, so the teaching content is spread across a few addresses but points back to the same instructors. There is also a Spanish-language version of the site covering the same ground, which is a genuinely useful touch for a topic where most free English material assumes you already read fluent design jargon.
Beyond the courses, Interiordezine publishes standalone articles and guides. The topics lean practical rather than aspirational: kitchen ergonomics, how to choose appliances, window treatments again, and even joinery. That mix is telling, because a site happy to write about ergonomics and joinery is more interested in how a room functions than in producing photogenic mood boards. A YouTube channel and a Twitter/X account carry extra tips and video, so the written lessons are not the only format on offer. Students who have finished the courses get their say on a dedicated testimonials page. Finding Interiordezine through a general business directory search is not straightforward either, since the name often gets confused with an unrelated furniture retailer called Interior Define.
Experience and outside reputation
The teaching side reads well. The reputation side is where Interiordezine gives a cautious reader pause, and it would be dishonest to gloss over it. A search for outside opinion turns up almost nothing. There are no notable third-party reviews, and the Facebook page sits at zero reviews, not yet rated. The name collision with Interior Define makes it harder still, because the small amount of online chatter is difficult to pin to the right company at all.
Reaching the team is the other soft spot. No phone number, no physical address, and no direct email address showed up in the material available, and a contact page did not surface in searches either. For a site selling paid courses, that gap is more consequential than it would be for a free blog. A buyer handing over money usually wants to know there is a real route back if something goes wrong. Registering for the free email courses is offered everywhere on the Interiordezine site while the way to actually reach a human stays out of view.
None of that erases the value of the free content, and it is worth keeping the two questions separate. The lessons can be judged on their own terms: they are structured, they cover the right fundamentals, and a beginner can start one without spending anything or sharing more than an email address. The free ecourses are a low-risk way to test whether the teaching style fits. The paid tier is where the missing contact details and the absent outside reviews become a practical problem, because that is the point where trust has to be backed by something more than years of operation.
What lands in Interiordezine's favour is consistency of purpose. Two named people have kept this going for over twenty-one years, the material is aimed squarely at the people who need it most, and nothing about it reads like a thrown-together affiliate trap. The Spanish edition and the spread across video, social and email suggest steady upkeep rather than a site left to gather dust. A homeowner who wants to learn the basics before hiring anyone, or before buying a single curtain, will get honest mileage from the free courses. The paid courses at Interiordezine are harder to recommend without reservation, because the lack of any verifiable reviews and the difficulty of finding a contact route leave a gap that a careful spender will notice. The free material is good enough that trying it first costs nothing, and that is the most honest place to start.
