Julia is Director of Interior Design at the KLC School of Design, and Director of Nightingale Designs which she established in 2001. She has completed a number of large residential projects both in the UK and overseas and has a regular column in The English Home magazine where she is also resident Interior Design expert.

After a varied career that included the Ordnance Survey and civil aviation, Simon took the KLC Diploma course graduating with Honours and the IDDA prize for Creativity. On graduation he gained valuable experience working freelance for two architectural practices producing working drawings, detail design work, commissioning bespoke fittings, liaising with suppliers and trades and producing company PR material in addition to completing his own projects for private clients. In 2001 he created a room set for KLC at the Daily Telegraph House & Garden Fair. In addition to his tutoring work at KLC he still finds time to work on commissions for his own clients.

Kevin graduated from RADA with a degree in professional Stage Management and enjoyed a successful career in Theatre and Opera working with most of the UK 's major opera houses. Always more attracted to the design element of the theatre Kevin completed the KLC Diploma Course in Interior Design. On graduation he received the BIDA award for Creativity and Communication and has been undertaking commissions on a freelance basis.

Annie is an award-winning designer and an RHS Chelsea Flower Show Silver Medal winner. As well as running a busy garden design consultancy, she has created about 50 gardens and has been instrumental in setting up and developing the garden design course at KLC. She has recently appeared in two garden design programmes on TV to much acclaim and has been inundated with commissions as a result.

Jill studied at art school and then joined Heals for a three-year graduate training course in interior design. She then worked for some of the major home interest magazines before launching out as a freelance designer, colour consultant, editor, broadcaster and author. In the last 25 years she has written 28 books on various aspects of interior design. She has also undertaken retail staff training for companies such as John Lewis, Do-it-all, ICI and Armstrong Flooring.

Judy Jarman has been a practising interior designer for several years having graduated from both KLC design school and Chelsea College of Art and Design. She worked as part of the design team for 5 years at an international interior design company specialising in 5 star hotels. Major projects she was involved in include the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in London and the Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados. Since then she has split her time between freelance residential design and tutoring at KLC design school. Based in London, she specialises in Open Learning and in dealing with overseas clients.

Peter Darty is the Head of Interior Design History at the KLC School. He has been working in interior design for over 30 years. He studied history and art in UK and Italy. He worked at Sotheby’s, and has subsequently combined lecturing and with design work. Prior to joining the KLC, Peter lectured at the V and A Museum, Chelsea School of Art and the Inchbald School of Design. At the school, he lectures on the history of design, which includes architecture, interiors, furniture and decorative objects. Peter’s design work has included the conservation and restoration of historic buildings, as well as interiors with an historic context. He has also designed several national exhibitions. Peter is the author of several books on the history of furniture and design. Publications includes: English, French and American Chairs, Interior Design, A Guide to English Furniture, Porcelain and Pottery Marks. Peter wrote the section for the History of Style included in the Open Learning Course manual.

Liz has worked for many years in the travel and Investment banking industries in Ireland and the UK . A move to New York prompted a change in direction and Liz decided to pursue her love of art and design by training at the New York School of Interior Design and the KLC School of Design in London . Since graduating from KLC in 1998, Liz has undertaken freelance design with a number of designers including Ray White of Raylian International. In 1999, Liz was awarded a Gold Medal for Design Excellence by the IDDA for a room set created for KLC at the Daily Telegraph/House & Garden Fair at Olympia. Many valuable commissions followed, which encouraged Liz to set up her own Interior Design practice based in Colchester where she works on residential commissions in the London and East Anglian areas.

Natalie graduated in interior design BA Hons at "The University of Central England" and then went to work as an Interior Designer for various design practices. She has been involved in both commercial and residential projects. Alongside her design career she continued to study and practice fine art and has work published as prints by 'Winn Devon / Encore Art Group' and 'King & McGaw'. In addition to tutoring Natalie now works freelance undertaking commissions for design, interior visuals, murals and art works. Since graduating, Natalie has gained extensive teaching experience at several UK colleges.

A former Deputy Head-teacher, Peter completed the KLC Diploma in Interior Design, winning the KLC/Nairn Student of the Year award. Peter's own design business initially focussed on interiors but, following a wedding in his garden, the business changed direction and he has been very busy ever since designing and building gardens. To date Peter has designed gardens covering a wide variety of styles from formal traditional to minimal modern, ranging from small London courtyard gardens to large country family gardens and gardens in Turin and Dijon.

Morwenna is an interior designer who began her career running her own soft furnishings workshop in London. Her work as a decorative painter led to creating the Decorative Paint Finishes open learning course for KLC. An established journalist, she writes on interiors and home style for newspapers, magazines and the web, and advises and trains many major UK companies including ICI Dulux, Prestige and the John Lewis Partnership in style and home fashion trends. Hamlyn will publish her first book First Home Soft Furnishings this year. She has appeared on many TV decorating shows across all the channels, and is a popular interiors ‘agony aunt' on BBC radio.

Max runs a successful IT consultancy business - Quarr-IT - providing individual clients with a broad range of services including tutoring, 3D modeling, web design, IT support, networking and multi-media production. He also undertakes freelance consultancy work with Todhunter Earle Interiors among others and has several years' tutoring and lecturing experience within the industry.

Carlene has designed over 50 gardens including a courtyard garden based on the herb garden at Sissinghurst and a 1-½ acre Chinese water garden with interconnecting ponds at Camberwell in southeast London . She now combines her garden design work with occasional television programme directing ( Grass Roots for Meridian Television was a gardening series) and also teaching horticulture and garden design. In 1995 she was invited by South Thames College (Putney) to set up and teach their first City & Guilds horticulture course, with an emphasis on garden design, and in 1999 became a garden design tutor at KLC . She has recently also begun teaching C & G courses at Wandsworth Prison.

Brenda Gibson has been in the design industry for 18 years and has gained recognised qualifications in Interior Design and teaching from Chelsea School of Art, Brighton University and The Open University. Brenda currently runs a successful Interior Design practice with a reputation for high quality residential design, encompassing Interior Design, Internal architecture and Interior Decoration. Its with this knowledge, experience and passion that Brenda approaches her lecturing at KLC. www.completeinterior.co.uk

Following a career in Marketing and Project Management, working with international consumer brands and latterly within the arts and heritage sector, Kate retrained at KLC, graduating from the Diploma course with honours in 2004 and winning the Kuoni prize for Best Hotel Design. Since then she has worked alongside Hugh Leslie on the design and refurbishment of a number of high-end residential refurbishments, and undertaken a series of private residential commissions. She continues to run freelance design projects alongside her tutoring role at KLC.

Emily left her career in the city to take a place on the KLC Interior Design Diploma course. She graduated with honours in July 2003 and won the BIDA student bathroom competition. On graduating she took a job at Woodstock Design in London, primarily focusing on a large commercial project in Spain. She is now running her own practice working on residential projects in London and Hertfordshire.

Daniela graduated in 2003 with a first class honours degree in Interior Design. At university she completed many design projects including sites in New York and Lisbon. Soon after graduating, Daniela joined a design company in Hertfordshire where she gained four years experience. Within her time there she completed many residential projects throughout London and Hertfordshire and specialised in designing show home interiors. Daniela now works as a freelance designer as well as a part-time support tutor.

Following a career change Stephen graduated from KLC School of Design in 2003. Stephen set up his own interior design practice, in2style Ltd in 2004. In2style specialises in residential, commercial and property development work.

A highly experienced interior designer, Clare has a degree in 3-Dimensional Design. She has tended to specialise in retail work and as a freelance designer/illustrator her clients included Marks & Spencer, Boots and Hamlyn Publishers. As a senior designer for leading retail consultants, projects included outlets for La Redoute, Bimbus, Oviesse, The Children's Shop and HMV. Recently she has been working mainly in Europe taking projects through from the conceptual stage to on-site implementation.

Megan is a graduate of the Interior Architecture Degree at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. Since graduation Megan has practised in New Zealand as an interior architect on a range of projects including set design, residential and commercial work. She has also lectured at Victoria University, specialising in computers for design and is the Co-founder of a successful jewellery design business.

Roz graduated from KLC with a Diploma (Hons) in Garden Design. Since then she has built up a successful garden design company in South West London called Leafscape Designs. Despite her busy schedule she is also a support tutor at KLC for the full time Garden Diploma and Certificate Courses and a marking and personal tutor for the Open Learning Diploma Course.

After graduating with a degree in business studies, Piers worked for the ‘Admirable Crichton’ party planners both overseeing events and organising the logistics. He left the company in order to spend more time renovating and developing residential properties, which he continues to this day. Piers studied for the KLC Diploma course in 2003 graduating with the Cole & Sons prize for History of Style. His first job after graduation was with ‘John Cullen Lighting’, which gave him a strong appreciation for the importance of light and shadow within a space.

Amanda has a BA hons in Garden Design from Middlesex University. This degree is given in conjunction with Capel Manor. From 1977 to 1983 she trained and then worked in horticulture, as a member of the Parks Department at the Borough of Hillingdon. Since 1983 to the present day she has been working as garden designer and plantsman on a freelance basis, as well as teaching and tutoring for KLC School of Design.

Like many people, Juliet chose garden design as her second career, having originally trained and worked as a hospital doctor in London. Since graduating as a garden designer she has moved to the south coast, where she runs her own garden design practice and specialises in difficult sites and naturalistic gardens. She devised and runs the Higher National Diploma Course in Garden Design at Plumpton College and her first book ‘A New Naturalism' is about to be published.

Graduated from KLC School of Design in 2001 having had a previous career in Theatre Design and is currently working, with her builder husband, in property development. She has practical hands-on experience of building and decorating. Recent projects include turning a basement into a bright and spacious playroom; a refurbishment of a maisonette in Barnes and a Grade Two listed flat in Camberwell.

After graduating with a degree in Business Science and working in Personnel Management, Kim decided to follow her real love and signed up for the KLC diploma course.  She graduated in 1996 with honours as well as the top student.  After gaining invaluable experience in a small, growing company she set up her own business and has worked on many interesting, diverse projects.

Victoria worked for many years in production or film and television before deciding to diversify into interior design. Since graduating she has run her own successful interior design and decoration consultancy service for private residential clients and her specialist teaching subjects are colour theory and psychology, materials and finishes and window treatments.

Having spent many years in fashion, Alice retrained on the Diploma Course in Interior Design. She spent three years working in the industry, before returning to KLC as a tutor. She went on to become Head of the Certificate Course in Interior Decoration. In summer 2007 she left the full time tutor team, to set up Maxwell Newsome with fellow KLC tutor, Caroline Newsome. Their company undertakes residential projects for private clients. www.maxwellnewsome.com. Alice has a degree in Fine Art and has exhibited in London and Dublin. She undertakes freelance commissions for visuals.

Paul set up his garden design and project management business in 1996 and has since gone on to work on some prestigious projects, recently winning the Supreme Award for the best garden in all categories at the Association of Professional Landscapers Awards 2003, for a 3.5 hectare garden in Cambridgeshire. Paul specialises in Hard Landscape & Construction and Plant Science and is in his fourth year as a tutor at KLC. He is a full member of the Society of Garden Designers.

Helen started Humphrey Interiors www.humphreyinteriors.co.uk in 1999 and has established a strong customer base in London and France in the quality residential market. With an Honours Degree in languages and an Honours Diploma in interior design she was previously senior designer under Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill for Woodstock Designs, working on some of the finest houses in the world. Helen is an accomplished artist and in addition to lecturing is often commissioned by magazines and designers for her illustration work.

Having obtained a KLC Diploma with Merit, Cynthia spent seven years with Harrods Interior Design Department. As part of their contract division she worked on projects such as the Langham Hilton hotel and Nonthaburi Palace in Bangkok, Thailand. On moving to the residential design team, she was responsible for designing and managing multiple ongoing projects both in the UK and abroad. In April 2004, Cynthia joined Private Lives Interiors Ltd, where as a senior designer her projects included several prestigious clients. With 9 years of broad professional experience, Cynthia has now set up her own company, Garcia Designs. continuing to offer a comprehensive interior design service with the emphasis on client satisfaction, and interiors perfectly suited to the individual’s lifestyle.

Working from his studios in Suffolk and London Gordon Lindsay has been creating interiors for clients for over 25 years. He has no “house style” as he prefers to design to meet the client's needs as well as reflecting the architecture. He is a Past Chairman of the BIDA and is keen to promote the Profession and to pass his experiences on to a younger generation. As Director of Gordon Lindsay Design he has worked on many residential and commercial projects, including many large companies such as Levi Strauss and Singapore Airlines. Details of recent projects can be viewed on the website www.gordonlindsay.co.uk

Nina trained in Germany and the UK as a furniture designer and set up studio Kew Bridge together with Pat Booth in1990. The studio produces beautifully crafted modern classics. Nina Moeller has exhibited her work at national and international exhibitions and over the last three years she also lectures worldwide.

After a successful city career, Caroline chose to retrain at KLC and pursue her interest in interior design. She has since worked as a designer and project manager for London Project & Design after which she started her own company which specialises in the design and project coordination of property renovation and has undertaken projects in the UK and abroad. Caroline continues to run her own projects whilst working as a tutor for KLC.

Wendy worked in the film industry for twenty years, for the film director, Stanley Kubrick, and then as a freelance Production Coordinator. After having her daughter, she decided pursue her passion for fabrics and furniture. She studied at the London Guildhall University, now known as the London Metropolitan University, where she currently teaches Advanced Upholstery. Wendy also runs upholstery and soft furnishings courses from her own approved training centre near St. Albans, Hertfordshire. Wendy is a Director of the Association of Master Upholsterers and Soft Furnishers and regularly judges and demonstrates her work for them at Design Interiors, BBC Good Homes Show and the Hatfield House Living Crafts Show. Wendy has been a visiting lecturer at the KLC School of Design for the past two year. www.wendyshorterinteriors.co.uk

Following 8 years in Marketing and seeking a new challenge that would combine her business skills with her passion for Interior Design, Helen graduated from KLC with honours in June 2003 and then worked with Joanna Wood in Pimlico. Helen now has her own design company www.helensmithdesign.com based in Sussex and undertakes a variety of high end residential projects.

Joanna Swabey is an interior designer who, after graduating from the KLC School of Design, set up her own practice Just so Design, specialising in both contemporary and traditional residential design. Her current projects include the decorative make-over of a 70s style living room and the full refurbishment of a family home. Prior to retraining, Joanna worked in the City as the Marketing Director of a National Professional Services firm.

Debby has spent the last twelve years working in the interior design industry resulting in a very diverse portfolio of work. Although currently working on two, new build, domestic projects, much experience has been gained in the commercial sector, particularly in the leisure industry (hotels and a sports centre). Debby also has a ‘Design Help' consultancy service which is ideal for smaller residential work where the client prefers to manage the project but does need expertise and advice. Working from her studio in London W5, the majority of the work she undertakes is in the locality which also enables her to teach and lecture at KLC. Although her specialisation is in refurbishment following an MSc in Construction and Refurbishment Management from The Bartlett Institute, University College London, her goal is to one-day build a brand new home incorporating all the ideas, experience and new technology of today.

Sue Launched Sue Timney Limited with the Opening of flagship showrooms in London 's Notting Hill in 2003. This new brand is a fresh view of interiors, textures and colour from Sue, marking the beginning of a more personal design statement, while retaining the power and strength of image associated with her name. The new ST collections include silk woven fabrics, and signature prints together with furniture produced in Scotland. Current Interior Design projects include the refurbishment of the Field Fisher Waterhouse building in the City of London, a Mayfair penthouse, and family houses in Notting Hill and Hampstead.

Janet trained as an interior designer and lighting consultant and worked at Concord lighting for more than 20 years, Janet now works internationally on lighting project design with architects, designers and lighting consultants. Some of Janet projects have included, The Natwest Media centre Lords Cricket Ground, architects Future systems and Peckham Library. She was awarded the Sterling prize in 2000 and 2002 respectively. She lectures extensively on all aspects of lighting including engineering design and application, product design, and the perception, appearance and performance of light and lighting.

Sue is a member of the Guild of Guide Lecturers. She has worked in two principal London auction houses, both buying and selling and cataloguing works of art. She has been awarded the Victoria & Albert Museum's Certificate in Fine and Decorative Art and SOAS's Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art. She runs her own lecturing and guiding agency, organising educational tours for fine art enthusiasts in the United Kingdom and India.

Tina worked in the travel and interior retail industries in her native Scandinavia before she came to London to study at the KLC School of Design. Since her graduation as “top student” with the “Outstanding Student of the Year” award from the International Interior Design Association in 1996, she has specialised in high-end residential projects for private clients. In 1998 she designed a dining room for the Daily Telegraph House & Garden Fair for which she was awarded a Gold Medal.

Rebecca and her business partner established LightIQ Limited to provide an innovative and inspirational lighting design service. Their goal is to harness and maximise the creative potential offered by lighting within a given project. Since its inception over one hundred and twenty projects, ranging from hotels to cutting edge restaurants and bars to residential spaces large and small throughout the UK, Europe be the USA have been transformed by the LightIQ philosophy. Rebecca is a former protégé of Sally Storey at John Cullen Lighting.

Chris is the Projects Director for Gordon Lindsay Design. He started in Contract Law and for the past twenty-five years has been responsible for the Project Management of the practice. He is also an Accredited Arbitrator and Professional Witness in disputes within Design and Architecture. He has been responsible for the space planning and project execution on all the commercial projects for the practice.

Biense is a qualified architect and Principal of a practice offering architectural, building development and illustration services, including design, management and implementation. Prior to this he undertook freelance work for major British architectural practices such as Chapman Taylor Partners, Lesley Jones, Elsworth Sykes Partnership and Ratcliffe Stott Associates. Projects have included hotels, restaurants, shopping centres and housing. Winner of a number of design competitions he has also taught at The Arts Institute of Bournemouth, Kingston University, The University of Nottingham, The Inchbald School of Design and the Surrey School of Art and Design.