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About Us
Reslisdence is an interior design site built around a single question: why does this space work? Not what does it look like, and not what should you buy, but what decisions are actually responsible for the effect you’re trying to achieve.
Most interior design content divides into two groups. The first shows you beautiful rooms and implies that replication is the goal. The second tells you what to buy without explaining what you’re actually trying to achieve. Neither is very useful if what you want is to understand the logic well enough to make your own decisions in your actual home.
That’s what you’ll find here: design style guides that explain the underlying logic of each aesthetic, room-specific guides built around real spatial problems, and a growing category of articles on the design principles themselves. Balance, proportion, emphasis, how light works and how to work with what you have. The practical application runs through all of it.
Who this is for
Reslisdence is written for people who want to understand interior design, not just consume images of it. The reader we have in mind is someone who has saved rooms they like, knows roughly what they’re drawn to, and is frustrated that most guides either show them spaces they can’t afford or hand them a shopping list without explaining the reasoning behind it.
Most of our readers are working with real constraints: a rental apartment, a limited budget, a room with an awkward layout or the wrong light. We treat those constraints as the normal case, not the exception. A guide that only works if you can renovate the kitchen is not a design guide, it’s a renovation brochure.
If you’re looking for mood boards and shopping inspiration, there are better places for that. If you want to understand why a space works so you can make better decisions in yours, you’re in the right place.
Who writes here
Claire Beaumont
Claire is a residential interior designer based in Chicago with a degree in Interior Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She spent eight years at a design firm before going independent, working on projects from small studio apartments in the city to ranch-style homes in Montana. She writes the architectural and principle-based content on this site: style guides with historical and structural grounding, the design principle articles, and anything where scale, proportion, or material logic is doing most of the work.
Her starting point in every article is the underlying logic of a design decision before its aesthetic outcome. She has a particular focus on the mistakes that look small but affect everything else: furniture at the wrong scale, light sources that fight each other, materials that create unintended visual noise. She has made those mistakes in client projects and watched clients make them independently, which is where most of her examples come from.
Sophie Renner
Sophie is a home decor writer and self-taught decorator based in Austin, Texas. She has redesigned four apartments and one house on real budgets, usually with rental restrictions, limited square footage, and the specific challenges that come with spaces that weren’t designed for the person living in them. She covers the practical side of this site: approachable styles, budget-conscious application, seasonal decor, and the specialty spaces that standard design advice tends to skip entirely.
Her writing is shaped by having made most of the common decorating mistakes before understanding why they were mistakes. She’s the writer who bought a rug that looked right online and wrong in person before learning how to read scale from a product listing. Her articles are for people who are working from the reader’s side of the design equation, where the constraints are real and the trial-and-error is part of the process.
How we approach this
Every article on reslisdence.com is written by either Claire or Sophie. The byline is always visible and the two voices are different enough that regular readers tend to notice. Claire leads with principle and structure. Sophie leads with the specific problem she was trying to solve. Both are writing from experience, not from a template.
We don’t publish shopping lists dressed up as editorial content. We don’t write articles to move products. The site is advertising-supported, which is separate from the content and always clearly labeled. When we recommend something specific, it’s because it addresses a design problem we’ve already explained, not the other way around.
We update articles when the information changes or when we find a better way to explain something. Interior design principles don’t expire, but application guidance can. If a guide has been revised, it says so.
A note on who’s behind the site
Claire and Sophie write what you read here. Reslisdence is published and operated by Lighthouse Retail Media. If you have questions about the content or the site, the contact page is the right place.
Where to start
If you’re new here and interested in a specific style, the style guides are the best entry point. If you want to understand the principles that run under all of them, start with the Interior Design Basics category. If you have a specific room that isn’t working, the room-specific guides are organized by space.
Questions, corrections, or topic requests go to the contact page. We read everything.
