Corey Damen Jenkins Teaches Interior Design Information
Acclaimed interior designer Corey Damen Jenkins shows you how to make bold, functional interiors on any budget—from mood boards to space planning.
About this Class
Considered one of the most prominent interior designers working today, Corey Damen Jenkins creates elevated spaces for clients across the globe and believes everyone should have access to great design. Now he’s teaching you how to build bold, functional interiors on any budget. From mood boards to space planning, learn how to embrace the design process, make choices with confidence, and turn your home into a true haven.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Meet Your Instructor: Corey Damen Jenkins
- Creating Stylish and Functional Spaces
- Defining Your Style
- Coordinating Color
- Mixing and Matching Patterns
- Customizing Your Window Treatments
- Finding Your Light
- Space Planning
- Maximizing Your Design Budget
- Living Room Walkthrough
- Design Is for Everyone
- Becoming A Design Entrepreneur
About Author
Internationally acclaimed interior designer, Corey Damen Jenkins, is celebrated for his unapologetic mixing of colors, textures, and layered patterns to create inspired and iconic spaces. His firm, Corey Damen Jenkins & Associates, is based in New York City. The firm’s work has graced the front covers of House Beautiful and Traditional Home and has received extensive features in many publications including Veranda, House & Garden, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Detroit News. Corey’s first coffee table book, Design Remix: A New Spin on Traditional Rooms (Rizzoli), was released worldwide in March 2021 and has since entered its sixth reprint.
Corey’s path to interior design was by no means conventional. A son of Metro-Detroit, Michigan, his love for interior design dates to the tender age of 7, when family members and schoolteachers first noticed his keen interest in drawing and then later sketching detailed rooms and futuristic furniture. “From the time I was a child, I’ve seen the world in color and geometry,” he stated, “I’m the oldest of three boys and, as my mother says, the only one who could always dress himself!” Although he received formal training at trade and art schools for architectural drafting, his parents encouraged him to pursue a “simplified life’ away from the arts.
Following their admonition, Corey pivoted into Detroit’s automotive industry working for a Tier One manufacturer where he climbed his way up the organizational chart from a receptionist to a Buyer of prototypes and indirect materials. However, after a successful 10-year tenure in the company’s purchasing department, he was unexpectedly laid off during the Great Recession of 2007.
It was at this point that Corey decided to return to his original love of interior design. “Times were so unpredictable then, and I needed to create a sustainable career that could never be outsourced,” he recalls. But launching an interior design firm in a faltering economy would prove to be a daunting challenge. While he had already constructed a “coming soon” website, the phone did not ring for several weeks. Corey then realized that if the business was not going to come to him, he would need to go to the business.
Armed with a large satchel fully equipped with color boards, sample CAD floor plans and elevations, and hand-drawn, conceptual interior renderings, Corey set about on a comprehensive door-knocking campaign. One suburb and downtown section at a time, he bravely visited homes, hotels, and other businesses offering his design and decoration services. The journey took Corey to the far-flung edges of Metro-Detroit, and during that harsh Michigan winter he eventually knocked on a whopping total of 779 doors.
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