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The Home Design WorkbookYour dreams and preferences, put together as a brief you can hand to your builder.

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.

01A brief you write yourself.Your dream home brief, to hand to your builder or designer.

02One board.Every decision assembled and judged as a single picture.

03An order of work.So nothing is chosen twice.

Get the Workbook · US$49 All three · US$129

Instant download · yours permanently · 14 days, no questions

27 pages19 exercises4 parts366 fields

For anyone about to hand a brief to a builder or a designer — decorating, renovating, or building.

The Home Design Workbook — CoverThe Home Design Workbook — Title pageThe Home Design Workbook — Part One · DecideThe Home Design Workbook — 03 · Your needs, in orderThe Home Design Workbook — 05 · Your paletteThe Home Design Workbook — 07 · Your lightThe Home Design Workbook — 10 · The evidence boardThe Home Design Workbook — 18 · See it all at onceThe Home Design Workbook — 19 · The order of work
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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

Your palette, your materials, your light, and the shapes you live with.

The details that often stay unnoticed till the last minute.

The search terms, and the subtraction.

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

An order of work, so nothing is chosen twice.

Inside

How to put it all together to build it?

The four parts, in the order the decisions arrive. You declare your scope on the first exercise — decorating, renovating, or building — and the pages tell you which of them are doing the work for you.

One · Decide

How big the project is, what the home has to give you, and in what order.

Two · Specify

Palette, materials, light, the shapes you live with, the details that often stay unnoticed till the last minute, and the evidence board — to see it all come together.

Three · Plan

How you move through your home, room by room, the difficult rooms that are often poorly planned, and where to be extra careful not to go wrong.

Your palette
See it all at once

Four · Design

The subtraction, the search terms, one board that holds everything, and the order of work.

Nineteen exercises, four parts, twenty-seven pages. A4, a fillable PDF with 366 fields, and a print version.

This is for you if
  • You would rather walk into the build with the arguing already done.
  • You would rather not decide everything twice while someone is waiting.
  • You want a brief you can hand to your builder or your designer.
  • You want one board where every decision is judged as a single picture, and an order of work so nothing is chosen twice.
It is not for you if
  • You want someone else to decide. That is a Signature Concept™, and it costs US$495.
  • You want the tiles and the joinery chosen for you. This is not that book.
  • You want it finished this weekend. It is not a work you do in a weekend — Part One in one sitting, the rest over a few weeks.
Who wrote it

There are endless choices, and not enough systems or reasoning why this should work for you.

I am Lisete, an interior architect from Estonia, with over a decade of real work experience. A home is often one of the biggest dreams of ours, and we usually have to work hard to build it — which leaves little time to figure the design and architecture out ourselves. This book is the structure and the reasoning, so you can do it without losing yourself in an endless ocean of options.

The Home Design Workbook
US$49

Instant download. Fillable PDF and a print version. Yours permanently.

Buy the Workbook

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

Built to use together with the Dream Life Journal and the Persona Book — but it works perfectly well alone too. All three, US$129.

Do I need the other two first?

No. It is built to use together with the Dream Life Journal and the Persona Book, but it works perfectly well alone too.

Is this for a whole house or one room?

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

How long does it take?

It is not a work you do in a weekend. Part One in one sitting, and the rest over a few weeks — in the order the decisions arrive.

Can a builder actually use what comes out?

That is what it is built for. Your dream home brief: one board where every decision is assembled and judged as a single picture, and an order of work so nothing is chosen twice.

Can I print it?

Yes. There is a print version as well as the fillable PDF with its 366 fields.