HOME AND GARDEN
REMODELING YOUR HOME SUCCESSFULLY!
Instructor: Richard Morrison, AIA, ASID
Make remodeling smooth and trouble-free. Receive tips on how to save money and time, select the right contractor, reduce headaches and inconveniences, and avoid typical problem situations. Learn the right way to get bids, how to maximize your investment and when to call in an architect/design professional. The instructor is a licensed architect and interior designer with 25 years home remodeling experience.
SPRING QUARTER ONLY
One session: May 10
Saturday: 1–5 p.m.
Palo Alto HS Rm 301: $39
IDEAS FOR GREEN/SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Instructor: Linda Lenore ( llenore@ix.netcom.com ), ( www.LindaLenore.com )
You can have a healthier home that is both energy efficient and beautiful. The “green” movement can help you create a sustainable environment using superior products at reasonable cost. You will learn about energy conservation, renewable energy, indoor air quality (IAQ), and environmentally sound building practices. This class will include Qi-Mag Feng Shui, the principles of which create higher vitality environments. Whether you are designing, decorating or building, you’ll leave with easy-to-implement ideas to create healthier living spaces. Materials fee payable to instructor is $5. Linda Lenore is a Certified Feng Shui Master, best-selling author, designer and professional speaker.
SPRING QUARTER ONLY
One session: April 7
Monday: 6:30–9 p.m.
Palo Alto HS Rm 301: $35
INTERIOR DECORATING WORKSHOP
Instructor: Sharon Mylroie Goldfein ( sharon@surfacedecor.com )
Choosing the right color combinations is easy! The mistake is not knowing or not using the correct color undertones together. Do you have the wood tones harmonized in the color relationship? Which of the 4 major style and accessory groupings is yours? Which room needs “staging” with a fresh space plan and rearrangement of the furnishings? This workshop will empower you to decorate with confidence! Bring to first class: $25 materials fee payable to the instructor, 2 or 3 decorating magazines, and printed photos of your present home decor for use in class activities. The instructor, owner of Surface Decor, has been teaching interior decorating at community colleges, recreation centers and adult schools for 30 years. Bring a bag lunch (half hour).
SPRING QUARTER ONLY
One session: May 17
Saturday: 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Palo Alto HS Rm 1708: $45
WHAT‘S WRONG WITH THIS ROOM? REINVENT YOUR ROOMS WITH WHAT YOU OWN
Instructor: Jennifer Duchene ( jen@homesredefined.com ), ( www.homesredefined.com )
Solve these burning questions: Are your rooms committing a crime? Are your sofas up against the wall? Afraid to invite guests home? Wondering, wanting, but still you are stalled? Detective Redesigner with mystery home kit will check the clues to make it fit. This fun, informative class includes problem solving, brainstorming and other group activities and time for all your questions. You’ll find space you didn’t know you had and difficulties will dissolve. Certified Redesigner and Stager Jennifer Duchene will clue you in. Bring photos or sketches as evidence. You may contact the instructor at ( jen@homesredefined ) or (650) 384-0569.
SPRING QUARTER ONLY
One session: May 17
Saturday: 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m
Palo Alto HS Rm 303: $35
GREEN INTERIOR DESIGN—THE NUTS AND BOLTS
Instructor: Kirsten Flynn ( kir@sustainablehome.com ), ( www.sustainablehome.com )
You deserve to have a beautiful home that makes you happy each time you walk in, but you can also make it healthier for you and the environment. It is not hard to find products that are lovely, support clean indoor air, and are ecologically sound. You will learn the environmental concerns with common interior materials, the right questions to ask when buying finishes or furniture, and energy efficient upgrades that anyone can install. Interior design is really fun, and enhances our lives, but information is essential to making good purchases. You will leave this class understanding the basics of green building and materials selection, and how to apply them to your interiors. The instructor, Kirsten Flynn, owns the design firm Sustainable Home and specializes in environmentally responsible interiors. She has taught locally, and recently designed the interiors for a totally solar house for the Solar Decathlon.
SPRING QUARTER ONLY
2 wks: April 23–April 30
Wednesday: 7–9 p.m.
Palo Alto HS Rm 306: $39
LANDSCAPING WITH A LIGHT TOUCH
Instructor: Fran Adams, APLD
Landscaping can be inexpensive, sustainable, and beautiful—all at the same time. In this class we will discuss how to create an attractive, healthy and interesting environment for your family at a reasonable cost. You will learn about developments in landscape materials and technology and begin to take a thoughtful, creative approach to designing your garden, under the guidance of a nationally certified landscape designer. Lectures will cover basic design concepts, creative reuse of plants and materials, chemical-free landscaping, “green” materials and techniques, and site-appropriate plant selection. There are three required texts: The Sunset Western Garden Book (2007 edition); Noah’s Garden by Sara Stein (1993); and Plants for Summer-Dry Climates (EBMUD 2004). No class April 15 or May 13.
SPRING QUARTER ONLY
6 wks: April 1–May 20
Tuesday: 6:30–9 p.m.
Palo Alto HS Rm 1708: $90
GREEN CHI FENG SHUI: HOME AND GARDEN WITH HEART AND SOUL
Do you want a more welcoming and nurturing home? Wish you had a garden that functioned well and was beautiful? Do you desire a form in which to express your true nature? Our homes and gardens can be more than just a place to gather “stuff” and live by habit. Come discover techniques that Linda Lenore has been invited to share on national television morning talk shows. Many cultures understand, and have established, principles to create “hearth”—the essential qualities for a house to become a “home.” Whether it’s the kitchen, fireplace, outside barbeque, or warm feeling within your dwelling, the positioning and material used are only part of the equation to achieve this desired outcome. You’ll learn design techniques to make your home feel wonderful, reduce stress, and allow your creativity to flourish. Materials fee of $5 payable to instructor. Linda Lenore is a Certified Feng Shui Master, best-selling author, designer and professional speaker.
SUMMER QUARTER ONLY
One session: June 16
Monday: 6:30–9 p.m.
Palo Alto HS Rm 301: $35
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