YOUR DESIGN GUIDE | START HERE
If you’re trying to make a room finally feel pulled together without hiring a full-service designer, you’re in the right place.
I’m Jill Seidner, an interior designer, and Your Design Guide is where I share the practical side of design: what to do, buy, move, change or keep, in the order I’d do it for a client.
Who this is for
- You’ve looked around a room and thought, “I know something isn’t right, but I don’t know what to change.”
- You keep buying things and the room still doesn’t feel finished.
- You want a designer’s process, not another inspiration photo.
- You’d rather make the room you have work than start over.
What you get here
Free subscribers get practical interior design advice, room-planning ideas, designer tips, quick fixes, the free sprints and previews of each month’s room challenge.
Paid subscribers get the complete 30-Day Room Redesign Challenge (a new room every month, with daily step-by-step designer direction), every paid post, and The Design Toolkit, my whole library of guides and my course, free with the subscription.
Start with these (free)
- Your Room Doesn’t Need More Stuff. It Needs a Plan. (free) — Why buying more rarely fixes a room, and the order I design in before I shop for anything.
- Before I Buy a Single Piece of Furniture, I Draw the Room (free) — The furniture layout: the one step that saves you from expensive mistakes.
- How I Create Mood Boards — and Why I Still Use Them After 16+ Years (free) — The simple tool I use to find a style, choose colors and set a direction before the room exists.
- Shop the Room: A Cozy Fall Living Room, Every Piece Picked (free) — A whole living room in one warm palette: twelve pieces, nothing over $100, and why it works.
And my free Interior Design Tips guide: 59 pages of room-by-room concept and selection boards from real projects, so you can see how the pieces of a room come together.
Then go deeper (paid)
- The 7 Things I Check First When a Living Room Feels “Off” (paid) — Before you buy another pillow, chair or lamp. Paid subscribers get all seven checks, in the order I do them.
- The Furniture Formula That Makes Your Room Look More Designed (paid) — Six furniture and decor pairings that balance scale, with room examples and designer measurements.
- Day 23: Curtains — The Easy Upgrade People Get Wrong (paid) — One lesson from September’s challenge: hang the curtains you already own so the room looks taller.
The Design Toolkit
Paid subscribers also get my library on one page: The Room Layout Fix course and workbook, the Apartment Set Up Guide + Workbook, my interior design drawings and space planning layouts, The Big Book of Mood Boards and How to Design a Bathroom, plus the full challenge archive, my checklists and the saveable visual guides from paid posts.
At their regular prices, the guides and the course come to $76.96. They’re free with your subscription, and I add a new resource every month.
What’s happening now
- The free 5-Day Small Space Refresh Sprint. The plan goes up Sunday, October 18, and the five tasks run Monday, October 19 to Friday, October 23: one 15-to-30-minute task a day, and you don’t need to buy anything. Every post is free.
- Monthly room challenges are back on November 1 with Dining Nooks + Dining Rooms, just in time for Thanksgiving and holiday hosting.
When you’re ready for the plan, not just the ideas
- Paid: $19 a month or $119 a year. The 30-Day Room Redesign Challenge, every paid post and The Design Toolkit. There’s a free trial, so you can try it before you decide.
- Founding Design Member: $199 a year. Everything in paid, plus a free one-hour online interior design consultation with me, a $150 value. If you want my eyes on your own room, that’s the one to pick.
One question
Tell me in the comments which room you’re working on and what feels hardest about it. I read every one, and it decides what I write next.
Jill Seidner
Your Design Guide
Jill Seidner Interior Design
www.JillSeidnerInteriorDesign.com
Originally published on Your Design Guide — read and subscribe free: https://yourdesignguide.substack.com/p/start-here
