Professional Green Design Consultant Workshop

Going green will benefit your clients, the environment, and, most of all, your own design and decorating business.

You'll learn how to develop eco-friendly designs, use eco-friendly products, and reuse furnishings your clients already own. You'll learn how to improve your clients' health and wealth, and how they can reduce their impact on the environment. You'll also learn how to successfully market your new skills and how to expand the services you offer.

Green design expert Darlene Hall-Barrett will explain

• What your job as a green designer includes
• Stereotypes of "going green" and how to overcome them
• Improving indoor air quality in your clients' homes
• Eco-friendly paints
• Eco-friendly wall treatments
• Green carpeting and flooring
• Hazards of household cleaning agents and eco-friendly solutions
• Recycling/restyling items to make them new again
• Greening each room in the home
• The use of grey-water systems
• Energy efficiency
• "Green-washing"
• Starting your own business as a green design consultant

You'll learn in a small group through presentations, discussions, and hands-on exercises. You'll receive your green design certificate once you have completed the workshop. Darlene Hall-Barrett, renowned interior decorator and winner of Global Television's hit reality series Rona Dream Home, will be your instructor and personal guide into the exciting and socially responsible world of green design.