Learn to Design Dramatic Interiors

No prior experience or formal design training is required — Miles explains everything from first principles, including how to use furniture stencils and quarter-inch scale to sketch a floor plan by hand. Beginners will learn the fundamentals of layout, palette building and antique shopping, while more experienced decorators will pick up professional techniques like client scheming presentations and layering contrasting textures. Miles' approach is intuitive and encouraging: trust your gut, be bold and decorate the world.

Absolutely — every technique is demonstrated in real rooms, including Miles' own 1826 federal townhouse in New York and a project house in Dallas. You'll learn practical skills you can use immediately, such as arranging seating areas for conversation, mixing upholstered and framed furniture, choosing curtain lengths and fabrics, painting floors, and hanging art gallery-style in a hallway. Miles also shares budget-friendly tricks, like using inexpensive Indian batik fabric or plastic sisal, so the ideas work at many price points.

Miles is known for 'cosy glamorous' interiors built on contrast — something crumbly next to something slick, an 18th-century piece beside something modern, a chocolate brown lacquer wall against straw matting. Trained by legendary antique dealer John Rosselli and decorator Bunny Williams, and later creative director of Oscar de la Renta Home, he blends fashion, film and antiques into rooms full of drama and personality. This course gives you rare access to that object-driven, no-rules sensibility and the professional habits behind it.

Yes — Miles takes you inside Doyle Auction Galleries and Galerie Shabab to show how he trains his eye, spots undervalued pieces and turns 'a sow's ear into a silk purse.' You'll learn how to shop for the largest possible rug for a room, why the rug should drive your whole palette, and how to build a personal collection slowly through flea markets and auctions. His advice on bidding, buying what speaks to you, and never hesitating on a great find is invaluable for anyone furnishing a home.

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.