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Design Your Home
About this class
“Design Your Home” course would walk participants through planning rooms and furniture layouts, creating mood boards and color schemes, and selecting furniture and finishes for their own homes to best suit their taste and needs.
Class Outline
- Creating functional furniture layouts with good circulation flow.
- Defining mood and style, and selecting the best style(s) for the homeowner to create a mood board.
- Developing color schemes and mixing colors to understand the effects they will have on the family’s mood.
- Selecting finishes and furniture, including style and color, to align with the mood board and color scheme.
Materials needed
Please note that VCUarts Qatar reserves the right to cancel any class that does not meet the minimum enrollment requirement. In such cases, all fees already paid will be fully refunded.
Please do not purchase any materials until final course confirmation has been sent by VCUarts Qatar.
Participants are required to bring their home plans, or at minimum, the plan or measurements of one room in their home that they wish to design.
Materials to bring for the class:
- Square grid notebook
- Rulers
- Pencils
- Erasers
On occasion, additional materials may be required and will be communicated by the instructor in advance. Please note that VCUarts Qatar will provide all necessary materials; however, participants are welcome to bring their own materials if they prefer.
Schedule
Start: Oct 6, 2026
End: Nov 10, 2026
Lessons: 6
Days: Tuesdays
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Location: VCUarts Qatar Campus
Cost: QAR 850
Instructor
Nada Hamad – Interior Designer/Entrepreneur
Graduating from the renowned Virginia Commonwealth University, school of the arts in Qatar in 2009 with a fine art degree in interior design; Nada ventured into the world of high-end commercial and hospitality fit out design and project management. Working on projects like The Gate mall, The Shangri-la Hotel among others in Doha; she cultivated a great experience in how a design concept develops and comes to life on site.
With this experience under her belt, she started a freelance design business 9 years ago under the name, Nada’s Interiors. She works on residential as well as commercial projects and has taken on some VVIP clients. She provides a unique full design service where she does not only design the space but also hand picks everything down to the smallest accessories thanks to her network of contacts worldwide where she can produce/source most of those curated pieces.
With a diverse background herself- A Palestinian Jordanian who was born in Doha and is married to an Egyptian gentleman- She is drawn to ethically influenced interiors, her own home is very eclectic in terms of design style. She is also very much drawn towards transitional interiors mixing classical and modern forms in contemporary setting.