Knowledge and transformation · Maven SIDD

From novice to expert. From passion to profession. From skill to income.

Not a blog. A knowledge library, organised the way the transformation actually runs — written and edited by the architects who teach the programmes.

Knowledge

From knowing nothing to understanding design.

Capability

From learning to designing professionally.

Economic power

From skill to career, to business, to income.

How the library works

Five stages, in order.

01 · Discover

You are looking

Rooms, ideas, images. No intention to study yet.

Modern Nigerian living room ideas

02 · Learn

You want to understand

The discipline behind the picture, explained properly.

What is space planning?

03 · Believe

You test our authority

Written by architects who teach and practise.

How to become an interior designer

04 · Transform

You see the evidence

Graduates, their work and what it earned them.

From beginner to professional

05 · Act

You enrol

Certificate, add-on course, or the UK diploma after.

Start your transformation

Design is a way of thinking.

We do not transform people with slogans. We transform them with knowledge, then capability, then the means to earn from it.

The pillars

Seven subject pillars, and a journal.

Each pillar carries a defined body of work. Titles below are the commissioned scope of each pillar — they publish as they are written.

Pillar 01

Learn interior design

The teaching category. Answers the questions beginners actually ask, in the discipline's real vocabulary.

Commissioned scope

What is interior design?

Interior decoration or interior design?

The ten principles of interior design

Colour theory for interior designers

How to read an interior floor plan

What is space planning?

How to measure a room

Understanding lighting in interiors

What is FF&E?

Moodboards and concept boards

Pillar 02

Interior design careers

From beginner to professional — the route in, and what it pays.

Commissioned scope

How to start a career in interior design

Can you become a designer without a degree?

What interior designers earn

Ten career paths in interior design

Designer, decorator or interior architect

Building a portfolio with no experience

How to get an internship

Changing career into design

Is interior design a good career in Nigeria?

Pillar 03

Interior design business

Teaching the skill is half of it. This pillar teaches earning from it.

Commissioned scope

How to start an interior design business

How to price interior design services

Writing a proposal a client signs

Interior design contracts

Calculating your fees

Finding and keeping clients

Marketing a design practice

Managing contractors

Ten ways designers make money

Winning international clients from Africa

Pillar 04

African interior design

Maven's intellectual territory — African design as context and opportunity, not a decorative style.

Commissioned scope

The evolution of Nigerian interior design

African materials in contemporary interiors

Nigerian art in contemporary interiors

The role of craft in African interiors

African textiles in interior design

Designing luxury for the African market

The future of African interior design

Pillar 05

Design inspiration, read professionally

Rooms worth looking at, with the analysis a designer would apply to them.

Commissioned scope

Nigerian living rooms, and what to learn from each

Modern Nigerian kitchens, analysed

Small apartments — twenty ways to gain space

Modern African living room schemes

Contemporary luxury, without the pastiche

Office interiors that hold a working day

Restaurant interiors, and what they cost

Pillar 06

Trends and industry

The industry-authority pillar. Where the profession and the market are going.

Commissioned scope

Interior design trends for 2027

The future of interior design in Africa

Will AI replace interior designers?

How technology is changing the practice

Sustainable interior design

Emerging materials

Why interior design matters in real estate

Pillar 07

Maven stories

The transformation, evidenced. Recurring format: before Maven, Maven, after Maven.

Published as graduates agree to be named

From beginner to interior designer

Turning a passion for interiors into a career

From unemployed to design entrepreneur

Building a first portfolio

From classroom to real project

The journal

The Maven Journal

Opinion and leadership — the pieces that give the school a voice rather than a content library.

Editorial

Why beautiful spaces are not always well designed

Africa does not need to copy European interiors

What we wish every aspiring designer knew

Why Africa needs more professional designers

The difference between knowing design and being a designer

Act

Start your transformation.

Reading is the first stage. The Certificate is where it becomes capability — twelve modules, three months taught, then a compulsory internship of at least three months.