The KLC School of Design and Homes & Gardens Design Your Own Home distance-learning course will give you the confidence to develop your own style

Step-by-step to perfect room schemes
Are you considering revamping your home but having difficulty getting started or visualising the end result? If so, help is at hand with the Design Your Own Home course from Homes & Gardens and KLC School of Design.

The course reveals how to put together successful and stylish schemes and how to mix antique and contemporary pieces. It also gives advice on how to run a project and at what point to bring in tradespeople to help.

Develop your own style
The interactive study material is presented in an elegant designer's portfolio filled with practical information and inspirational ideas.

Professional support and guidance
KLC School of Design is world-renowned for the quality of its training. The school offers students a unique system of support services and there is the opportunity to attend special workshops to supplement your studies and meet fellow students. For the top Design Your Own Home student there is an annual award.

Revitalise your home
There is no time limit on completing the course, although the average time taken is about 12 months. No prior experience of interior design is necessary, just commitment and enthusiasm. Who knows, it might even lead to a change of career.

The course costs £350 and includes the course material, presented in a portfolio along with a pen and scrapbook; study guide; project and assignment work; plus all tuition and insurance of manuals against loss or theft in transit. Homes & Gardens readers enrolling before 31 March 2006 will receive a free six-month subscription to H&G (existing subscribers will receive instead a £15 discount and pay only £335) and a copy of the book Interior Design by KLC's principal, Jenny Gibbs (Special offer only available to UK-based readers). Simply quote H&G0406.

To enrol call KLC School of Design on (020) 7376 3377 email info@klc.co.uk or visit KLC.