Everything Small Home Design (Udemy.com)
Small Home Living at its Best
Created by: Erikka Fogleman
Last updated August 2024
What you will learn
- Great design tips/techniques for every room in your home, including your outdoor area
- How to make your small rooms appear bigger
- Best storage hacks for your small home
- Learn where to go "big" and where to go "small" when selecting furnishings
- How to strategically use color/patterns in your home
- Understand the most effective ways to divide open spaces
- How to select the best lighting fixtures for each room of your home
- How to most effectively use open shelving in your home
How it compares
Against the other 418 rated Udemy courses in Lifestyle on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 65% of them
- Reviews716#117 of 419 by number of reviews
- Length2.9 hourslonger than 51% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2024more recently than 52% of them
Course Description
Are you challenged on how to most effectively design your small room or home?
Do you feel constrained functionally and/or aesthetically by your smaller space?
Do you feel paralyzed for fear of making the wrong design decisions in your small home?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, this course is here to help!
Whether you live in an apartment, condo, flat, townhouse, loft, or single family home, this course has been designed to give you the right tips, techniques, and approaches to make the most out of your space both functionally and aesthetically.
**PLEASE NOTE: This course does NOT include "tiny house" design/decoration. As stated above, this course is for those who live in smaller homes, such as apartments, condominiums, flats, townhouses, lofts, or single family houses.**
This course covers a wide range of topics related to small home design and decoration, including, but not limited to:
4 pro ways to make a room look bigger and the 4 biggest mistakes to avoid in your small home
Design techniques and approaches for every room in your small home, including your outdoor space
How to make your small rooms appear bigger
Where to go "big" and where to go "small" when selecting furnishings
Best storage hacks for your small home
Great "double duty" pieces
How to strategically use color and patterns in your home
Best approaches for effectively dividing open spaces
Excellent lighting techniques for every room of your home
How to most effectively use open shelving in your home
You will also be guided through two hands-on activities in this course. First, you will have the opportunity to immediately apply your learning in three guided small room case studies. Then, using a customized planner that I created especially for this course. you will create a comprehensive room design for one of your own small rooms, as nothing will help you to cement the concepts and techniques you learned in this course more quickly than immediately applying them to a real world situation.
In short, my goal with this course is to help you fall in love with your small home by showing you the techniques and approaches that interior design professionals regularly use to create small home magic. I look forward to seeing you in the course!
IMPORTANT NOTES:
If you are interested in taking most or all of my courses, I have a recommended order in which to watch them (although it's certainly not required). I would start with "How to Design a Room in 10 Easy Steps" because most of my other courses are in-depth classes of the concepts touched on in this 10 step class. Following the 10 Step Course, I suggest moving on to "How to Use Color Like a Pro", followed by "How to Work with Interior Design Styles Like a Pro", then "How to Use Lighting Design to Transform your Home", and finally "Design is in the Details".
My other five courses, "How to Use Minimalist Interior Design to Live your Best Life", "Use Eco-friendly, Sustainable Design to Improve Your Life", "How to Design Your Dream Kitchen", "How to Design Your Dream Bathroom", and "Everything Small Home Design" are all stand alone classes on specialty topics within interior design, and therefore, can be taken in any order.
Please be aware that this course, or any of my courses, is not intended to provide all of the knowledge needed to become a professional interior designer. As with any professional field, there is a significant amount of education and/or experience that is needed to achieve competency in this field. My intention with these courses is to provide some solid foundational knowledge to assist either those individuals interested in "DIY" interior design to work on their own projects more effectively, or to provide supplemental education to both interior design students and professionals.
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
716 Reviews
Erikka Fogleman
While Interior design is my main career and passion, I also absolutely love to teach others, so I am thrilled to have found Udemy so that I can share that passion and knowledge with others just like you.
Are you a design enthusiast yourself?
Do you wish you could design rooms in your own home that are both beautiful and functional?
Do you wonder how interior designers make it look so effortless?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you are my ideal student!
Through my classes, I will show you how many areas of interior design can be broken down into simple-to-use processes and formulas, so that you can be successful in creating beautiful and functional rooms all on your own using an easy, systematic approach.
I’ve been designing and redesigning rooms for as long as I can remember – first for myself, then for friends and family, and finally decided to make it my full-time career. Today, I own my own thriving interior design business called Erikka Dawn Interiors. I primarily work in residential design, but have recently expanded to commercial work as well. I also graduated from the Interior Design program at the New York Institute of Art and Design.
I hope you’ll join me in one or all of my classes, so you too can learn how to create your dream home!
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Reviews
By Anna B on 11/12/2025
The length of classes and the practical tips provided are super important for me. I definitely appreciate the designer's considerations about different home styles and the distinction between the functional and aesthetic sides of a space.
By Jane Guo on 5/8/2025
Very useful course with lots of insights and considerations when designing for a small room. High quality and well organized course sections. Covering a wide range of topics and functionalities for various types of rooms. Strongly recommend!
By Thiago Antônio Villa Menezes on 6/29/2023
This course has furniture, color, lighting etc. hacks for small homes and functional & aesthetics design tips for each room. Each video is ~5 min long but packed with actionable tips, visual examples, and a handy recap. Top 3 items: double-duty furniture ideas, storage hacks, and small kitchen design. Top 3 improvements: add walk-though example to the build-your-own-small-room video, final quiz too hard, more design examples per room. I recommend to buy this, the interior design styles, and 10-step process courses.
By Tamara Tandara on 4/7/2023
I am loving this course. I find it very useful as a beginner and an enthusiast in interior design. I needed to learn about the principles of interior design in a relatively short period of time as well as have some applicable knowledge for a work project. It is also fun to know and better understand these kind of things and use them in your own home space.
By Chinedu Vivian Nwaohiri on 11/16/2022
learnt so much about how to make small spaces look large and airy especially with wall colours matching window treatments and ceiling. also open shelving being used for storage behind the sofas. its such a smart idea
By Vanessa Motsiou on 6/30/2022
I like the way this course is presented. It provides some really good information and techniques but in my opinion some of the picture references are misleading. To me it appears that some of the shown rooms are pretty large or a corner/part of a larger room which can be confusing. I believe the examples should be updated. Overall I would recommend this course to someone who is missing the basic knowledge about home design.
By A.J. Sultan on 1/12/2021
Ik heb alle cursussen gekocht van Erika, je wordt bij elke cursus wijzer. Bij deze cursus leer je de dingen specifieker te bekijken, aangezien het gaat om meer te halen uit kleinere ruimtes. Well done Erika, keep up the good work and a happy 2021
By Dympna Dundas on 12/29/2020
I moved into a small home a couple of months ago but was struggling with how best to incorporate storage and with decoration. This course has shown me ways to get that storage without the clutter. I also got some great ideas for color and texture.
By Oana Groza on 9/22/2020
It is a great course, I am learning a lot and I find her explanations really easy to follow. I am very inspired by all these ideas that are not only useful and can transform a house into a much beautiful place, but also easy to implement. For someone with no prior experience in interior design, I am so happy I discovered this course!
By Paweł Dereziński on 8/19/2020
As usual, you gave us a wonderful course, full of great advices, full of examples, full of things to consider while designing our small spaces, and - last but not least - full of good vibes and your ability to share knowledge with passion and smile! I also have to admit that I was hoping that you would make a course focusing on small spaces, because that is what I am dealing with and what I am currently designing. And you did! Thank you and keep doing that great work! :)
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