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Rita Konig takes you through complete interior design projects from start to finish, including her own London renovation in Oxford Gardens and a long-term country house project in Garrison, New York. You'll learn how to plan a kitchen dining room, work with kitchen designers and lighting designers, manage builders and evolving plans during construction, and shop for antiques with a designer's eye. The course covers the practical realities of a build — storage planning, electrics, budgets and joinery — alongside the decorative decisions that give a home character and a layered, lived-in look.

Rita takes you through her complete decorating process from A to Z, starting with layout and how rooms flow, then electrics and lighting plans, before moving on to paint schemes, fabric mixing, upholstery and the final layering of a room. You'll also join her on shopping trips to auction houses, tile and stone specialists and luxury interiors shops to learn how to buy well at every budget. Along the way she shares practical systems like sample envelopes, paint schedules and labelling fabrics so your project stays organised and calm.

Rita has been decorating houses professionally for 20 years, and the course is filmed in real locations — her London flat, the Durham farmhouse she and her husband recently finished, her studio and the shops and auction houses she genuinely buys from. Rather than styling for a photograph, she teaches you to design a room as you actually experience it: seated, with a lamp to read by, somewhere to put your drink and everything within arm's reach. The result is honest, insider advice on upholstery, cushions, tile choices and layering that you can apply immediately in your own home.

Rather than staged before-and-afters of someone else's home, Rita filmed her own two-year renovation, so you see the rubble, the site visits, the mistakes and the mid-build changes of mind. She's candid about what went wrong — a staircase built incorrectly, a kitchen firm working from the wrong plans — and how to handle it calmly while keeping morale on site. You also get her thinking on client relationships, budgets and working with architects, project managers and lighting designers, which is knowledge you rarely find outside a working design studio.

Butter walks you through three real projects: her own long, west-facing London garden with its wildflower meadow, yew pyramids and hidden work area; a Primrose Hill courtyard garden designed with architect Ben Pentreath, featuring herringbone brick paths, circular dining areas and bespoke estate railings with cordon pear trees; and interior designer Rita Konig's garden, seen from site survey through to proposed plan. Seeing the drawings, briefs and decisions behind each garden helps you understand how professional schemes come together in practice.