Design Interiors for Entertaining

No formal training is required — Amanda Lindroth is a self-taught decorator and teaches using the simplest tools: a tape measure, tracing paper, a ruler, and a pencil. Her lessons are designed for enthusiastic homeowners as well as working designers who want a more professional process. Whether you're decorating one room or an entire holiday house, the step-by-step approach is easy to follow.

Every lesson translates directly to real homes: you'll learn to measure and draw your own room layout, divide a space into zones around traffic patterns, choose the right rug size, and 'programme' a room for how you actually live at 9am, noon, 4pm, and 7pm. Amanda also shares a simplified room-by-room version of her professional process, using a furniture plan and a simple spreadsheet to track budget, orders, and installation. The result is a home that functions beautifully for coffee, cocktails, dinner parties, and houseguests alike.

Amanda Lindroth is one of the world's leading voices in island and tropical interiors, with 25 years of decorating in The Bahamas and a client list that includes private homes and hotels across the Caribbean. Rather than abstract theory, she teaches on location — inside The Dunmore Hotel's pool pavilion and clubhouse and throughout her own home, Hope Hill — explaining exactly why each decision was made. She also shares candid professional insight into client relationships, island logistics, and how to recover when things go wrong.

Yes — Amanda is a passionate believer in repainting, repurposing, and hunting. You'll see how a big-box store table and inexpensive chairs became an elegant private dining room with white paint and performance fabric, how a collection of 'instant' artwork was created from magazine pages, album covers, and ready-made frames, and how junk shop and eBay finds became some of her most photographed moments. These are practical, affordable techniques you can use in your own home this weekend.

All of our courses are online, meaning that you are able to watch them whenever and wherever suits you best. There is no beginning or finish date and they’re completely self-paced so that you can stop, start and pause each lesson to fit around your own schedule. You can begin watching a course as soon as you purchase it – simply login to your Create Academy account whenever you have a quiet moment to yourself.

Yes! You can rewatch each lesson as many times as you’d like. If you have purchased an individual course, you will have lifetime access to it, so you’ll be able to rewatch and dip in and out of each lesson forever - perfect if you have a busy schedule! If you purchased an annual subscription, you can enjoy full access to all of our lessons until you choose to cancel.

If you have purchased an individual course, you will have life time access.

An annual subscription gives you access to all courses for 12 months from the date of purchase, including those released during that period. Our subscriptions are set to automatically renew after 12 months so you have the benefit of uninterrupted access! If you choose to cancel, you will no longer have access to the platform.

Below each video lesson you’ll find the link to download the corresponding workbook pages. If you’d like to download the whole workbook at once, simply navigate to the very first lesson in the course and click 'Download Workbook'.

We’re on a mission to help you build your creative confidence and live a more creatively fulfilled life. Through beautifully curated video courses, we give you unprecedented access to the expertise of today’s best designers, makers, gardeners and chefs - allowing you to unlock your creativity whenever and wherever you want.

Yes – all our courses are available internationally. Please note, all our courses are taught in English.