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The Book Set · to design your dream life and a home that supports itYou will know exactly what you want. And exactly why.

Three books that take you from “I don’t really know what I want” to a brief a builder could work from — without the months of going round in circles that make a renovation cost twice.

Get all three · US$129 Start with the Journal · US$25

Instant download · fillable and print versions · yours permanently · 14 days, no questions

501 pages 30 prompts 15 personas 19 exercises

For anyone who wants to know exactly what they want, and exactly why.

01The Dream Life Journal.To see your deeper dreams.

02The Persona Book.Insight through fifteen different directions, each with its own profile and reasoning.

03The Home Design Workbook.To pull all your dreams and preferences into a true brief, and build your actual home.

The Dream Life Journal — Cover — One · The life The Dream Life Journal Thirty prompts about how you actually want to live — the work, the money, the people, the hours. Not a home book. You finish holding ten words, four coordinates and six ranked needs. 35 pages · US$25 on its own

The Dream Life Journal — Title page — One · The life The Dream Life Journal Thirty prompts about how you actually want to live — the work, the money, the people, the hours. Not a home book. You finish holding ten words, four coordinates and six ranked needs. 35 pages · US$25 on its own

The Persona Book — Cover — Two · The person The Persona Book Fifteen ways of being at home — each with its identity and lifestyle sections, and its home section. Yours, and the two closest to you. US$89 on its own

The Persona Book — The Dreamer · the portrait — Two · The person The Persona Book Fifteen ways of being at home — each with its identity and lifestyle sections, and its home section. Yours, and the two closest to you. US$89 on its own

The Home Design Workbook — Cover — Three · The home The Home Design Workbook Nineteen exercises that turn all of it into a brief specific enough that a builder or a joiner could work from it. 27 pages · US$49 on its own

The Home Design Workbook — Title page — Three · The home The Home Design Workbook Nineteen exercises that turn all of it into a brief specific enough that a builder or a joiner could work from it. 27 pages · US$49 on its own

The sequence

How do I stop spending the budget twice?

The three, and what each one is for. The Journal tells you how you want to live; the Persona Book tells you what that means about you and your home; the Workbook turns both into decisions. Each stands alone, and a single always credits toward the set.

One · The life

The Dream Life Journal

“What do I actually want?” You finish holding ten words, four coordinates, six ranked needs and the vision board.

Most planning asks what you want to achieve. This asks what you want your Tuesday to feel like.

35 pages · US$25 separately

Two · The person

The Persona Book

“Why do the things I keep saving keep pulling at me, and what does it say about me?” You finish holding your direction of fifteen, as a portrait and as a home identity — plus the other fourteen to browse.

Your essence, then your lifestyle: brands, wardrobe, music, books, travel, scents, chosen because they fit you. The design rules follow from it.

Fifteen directions, all yours to take inspiration from. It draws on interior architecture, neuroarchitecture and psychology.

US$89 separately

Three · The home

The Home Design Workbook

“How to put it all together to build it?” You finish holding a brief specific enough to build from, and an order of work.

A design brief you write yourself, so you walk into the build with the arguing already done instead of deciding everything twice while someone is waiting.

27 pages · US$49 separately

What you finish holding

From your deeper dreams to a document you can hand over.

Structure and guidance: from working out your deeper dreams, to real insight into your type and your options, to a detailed document you can hand to your builder as a brief.

Clear reasoning behind every decision, so you never lose yourself in the endless ocean of options.

Ten wordsthe ones that keep returning in your own answers, whatever the question was

Four coordinatesloose or resolved · quiet or charged · restrained or layered · crisp or soft

Six needs, in orderthe order you actually hold them, which is rarely the order you would have guessed

The vision boardone visual page you keep where you can see it

Your direction of fifteenas a portrait, and as a home identity

One boardevery decision assembled and judged as a single picture

An order of workso nothing is chosen twice

This is for you if

You want to know exactly what you want, and exactly why.
You would rather stop spending the budget twice.
You want to be able to change your mind with confidence, because you know the true reasons.
You would take the time to dream and plan your home properly.

It is not for you if

You want someone else to decide. That is a Signature Concept™, where an interior architect resolves the room for you.
You want the tiles and the joinery chosen for you. These are not that.
You want a fixed route through it. There is none — start where it interests you.

What arrives

Three books, both formats, immediately.

Three books, 501 pages

Both formats, immediately. A4 throughout, fillable and printable.

Sixty pages you write on

Thirty-four in the Journal and twenty-six in the Workbook — and the Persona Book, with your own direction and fourteen others to browse and find inspiration from.

Yours permanently

Instant download, no account, no subscription.

What it is really for

Decision fatigue is the most expensive thing in a renovation or building work.

Not the tiles, not the joinery — the weeks of going round in circles, changing your mind, ordering twice, holding up a trade while you decide something you could have decided months earlier.

It happens for one reason: nobody wrote down what they actually wanted, or why. So you walk into the build with the arguing already done instead, rather than deciding everything twice while someone is waiting.

What you have instead

You know exactly what you want, and exactly why.

One board where every decision is assembled and judged as a single picture.

An order of work, so nothing is chosen twice.

And the tools to change your mind with confidence, because you know the true reasons.

All three

US$129

The Dream Life Journal, the Persona Book and the Home Design Workbook. Instant download, fillable and print versions, yours permanently.

Get all three Start with the Journal

Fourteen days. If it doesn’t tell you something about yourself you hadn’t articulated, write to me and I’ll refund it.

Or buy one now and the rest later. A single always credits toward the set.

Do I have to do all three?

No — each stands alone. But the Journal tells you how you want to live, the Persona Book tells you what that means about you and your home, and the Workbook turns both into decisions. All three in order is simply how they are put together as a system.

The Journal doesn’t look like a home book.

It isn’t one. Nothing in it is about your home alone — it is your life, and that is deliberate. A home is tied to our more profound dreams, so it is worth taking the time to dream and plan it properly. The Workbook is the one that turns it into decisions about a house.

How long does it take?

The Journal is about two hours, or a month of mornings. The Workbook is not a work you do in a weekend — Part One in one sitting, the rest over a few weeks.

I already bought one of them.

A single always credits toward the set. Write to me and I’ll send the difference as a link.

Is this for a whole house or one room?

Either. You declare your scope on the first exercise of the Workbook — decorating, renovating, or building — and the pages tell you which of them are doing the work for you.

The Book Set · to design your dream life and a home that supports itYou will know exactly what you want. And exactly why.

Your home doesn’t need to become more perfect.
It needs to become more you.