College of Cape Town is a school that is committed to excellence in teaching, service delivery and managed quality education. College of Cape Town offers many courses including art and design and interior decorating courses. The purpose of their interior design program is to provide students with an understanding of the interior design industry. Students will learn the skills required to consult with clients and convey designs through professional perspective and technical drawings.
Established in 1981, Inscape Design College is South Africa's oldest privately owned multidisciplinary design college. It offers diploma and certificate courses in different fields of design including interior design. The interior design course aims to provide students the ability to design commercial and residential interior spaces using functionality and aesthetics. Students will learn about furniture and lighting design and will be able to convey design through professional perspective and technical drawings or models.
Lifestyle College is the only internationally accredited garden design college in South Africa. It offers a number of courses related to garden design as well as a course in interior design. The interior design course is aimed at giving student's the knowledge that they need to be an interior designer. Lifestyle College's interior design program is divided into five courses where students will gain an understanding of a working design, gain the skills and knowledge needed to utilize walls, windows, lighting and flooring, to utilize furniture in a room layout, to utilize and combine fabrics, and to add the finishing touches to a room.
Calder School of Interior Design offers interior design and decorating courses. It offers a three-month introductory course, a one-year certificate course, a two-year design and decorating diploma, a three-year advanced design and decorating diploma and a professional practice course. They also offer 15 workshops throughout the year on decorating and design topics including Fundamentals of Interior Design, Color Theory and Schemes and Fabrics: Types and Uses.
Boston House College School of Design offers a three-year, full-time program in interior design and short courses. The three-year course familiarizes the student with design methods, the business side of interior design, problem-solving skills, and practical experience with real projects under guidance of mentors. The short courses do not earn students credit and cover subjects such as Interior Decorating, Presentation Drawing, 2D and 3D Auto CAD PhotoShop CS and Google Sketchup.