Before you spend one more dollar on your home, find out who it should be for

I've been an interior designer for over 35 years. This is the question I ask before anything else.

Not "what's your budget". Not "what style do you like". I ask a client to describe, in their own words, the home they want to live in. Then I ask them to tell me about a room they've loved. Then I walk their house.

That's it. That's the beginning of every project I've ever taken on, and it's the part nobody does for themselves.

Most people start with what to buy. Which shelf, which paint, which sofa, which rug. They're making decisions before they know what they're deciding for. Then something looks wrong, and they can't say why, so they buy something else.

By the time most clients reach me, they've spent real money on the wrong things. Not bad things. Wrong ones. Things that don't belong in the home they were actually trying to build.

The cheapest money you'll ever spend on your home

You don't need a bigger budget. You don't need a better eye. You need to know what you're building toward.

This course is my client process, made available to anyone who wants to do it for themselves. And it starts where every project starts: with you.

Find your interior identity. Not a style label you borrowed from a magazine. A single sentence that comes out of your own life: what you've loved, what you've kept, how you actually live in your rooms.

In Module 1 you build it. Taste Timeline: five to seven spaces you've loved, and what they had in common. The Love Sheet: the objects you already own that you genuinely love, photographed and interrogated, because they'll tell you your materials and colours before you know them yourself. The Room Walk: every room observed, untidied, with what's missing named honestly. Then one sentence.

By the end of Module 1 you have a standard. From there, every decision becomes a check rather than a gamble.

A course you talk to

This is where it works differently from a PDF. The AI has my method built into it, and it coaches you through the lessons in order, one at a time.

• You do the work, not just the reading. Every lesson ends with something in your hand: a list, a photograph, a sentence.
• It answers what the lesson doesn't cover. Stuck on your third identity statement? Ask. Not sure whether something on your Love Sheet counts? Ask.
• It checks your decisions against your standard. Once your identity statement exists, it will hold you to it, which is exactly what a designer does.

You work through eight modules: Your Interior Identity, Clearing the Way, Renew, Reacquire, Colour and Light, Surfaces and Materials, Styling Your Space, Living In It.

The method is the same whether you rent or own, whether you've been in the same house for twenty years or moved in last month. The starting point never changes: your taste, not someone else's.

Why identity comes first, and always has

Every decision in your home is a judgement call. Should this wall be that colour? Does this chair belong? Is this worth repairing?

Without a standard, every one of those is a guess. A house built on guesses never quite comes together, and you can feel it even when you can't name it.

So we do the hardest part first. It's also the cheapest part. Almost nothing in this course requires spending money, and that's deliberate.

What this is not

Not a renovation guide. Nothing here needs a builder.

Not a shopping list. There's no prescribed style, and that's the point. Your light, your objects, your life.

Not rules about what goes with what. Anyone who gives you the right answer without asking those questions is guessing, and you'll be able to tell.

What it is

The question my clients pay thousands to be asked, and the process for answering it at your own pace. For $12.50 a month, cancel whenever you like.

Work through the modules in order. Some people do one a week. Some take a season. The pace that works is the pace you'll keep.

By the end you'll have a home that reflects who you actually are, and a standard you can apply to every decision from here on. Not a finished house. A home that's yours, and that you know how to keep.