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Rightsizing with Design
Simplify Your Home, Simplify Your Life
USE the design process to uncover the best use of your space, with exactly the right furnishings, as simply as possible.
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Our homes are meant to be sanctuaries - places of refuge that restore and rejuvenate us. But when life circumstances change, the home that once fit perfectly can start to feel like it's working against you.
Maybe you're an empty nester realizing the house is full of rooms that no longer serve anyone. Maybe you're living with a partner whose needs for space look different from yours. Maybe you just feel the weight of too much stuff and not enough ease.
The prospect of editing through decades of accumulated belongings is genuinely daunting. It's understandable why anyone would put it off. But there's a cost to waiting: the overwhelm builds, the home that should be a haven starts to feel like a burden, and the mental clutter follows you from room to room.
You don't have to white-knuckle your way through this. Through intentional "rightsizing" — guided by real design principles — you can reclaim the comfort, function, and calm of your living spaces.
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About the program.
A design-led approach to making your home work for you — right now.
Rightsizing with Design is a self-paced online course that teaches you to think like a designer about your own home. Over six modules, you'll move from quick, high-impact changes to deeper skills that will serve you for years — all grounded in the same design process I use with my clients.
This isn't about minimalism for its own sake, and it's not about following someone else's aesthetic. It's about developing your own eye, trusting your own observations, and making changes that actually stick — because they're rooted in how you live, not how someone on the internet thinks you should.
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What You’ll Learn
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Begin with high-impact, low-effort changes you can make this week. Each task teaches a core design principle through action — so you build momentum and see results immediately.
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Learn to observe and solve the daily friction points in your home — the morning bottleneck at the bathroom door, the evening clutter that piles up by the front door. You'll map your actual routines and design solutions that fit them.
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Start with ready-to-use color recipes for different moods, then build toward understanding why certain combinations work. You'll finish with the confidence to create your own palettes — no design degree required.
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Explore the balance between personal and communal in your home. Create personal zones within shared space, design for multi-generational needs, and learn communication tools for getting household buy-in.
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Dive into the technical skills of an interior designer: measuring rooms, drawing to scale, creating schematics. These are the same skills I use on every project, and they're more accessible than you think.
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Build a system to hold everything you've learned — a project roadmap, an FF&E tracker, an ideas catcher, and a realistic timeline. These are the tools that keep real projects from falling apart.
“Decluttering is infinitely easier when you think of it as deciding what to keep, rather than deciding what to throw away.”
What's Included:
Each module pairs a video introduction with a hands-on workbook. The videos frame the thinking behind each topic — why it matters, how to approach it, what to look for — while the workbooks are where you do the real work at your own pace. You'll also get two demonstration videos up front: quick wins you can try immediately that teach the core skills underpinning everything else in the course.
Six module workbooks — printable guides with exercises, prompts, and planning tools designed to be used in the room, not just read on screen
A curated Color Palettes guide with ready-to-use color recipes, suggested combinations, and real-world inspiration for creating atmosphere in your home
A quick-reference guide to key concepts and terms across all modules — so you can pick up right where you left off, even if life gets in the way for a while
Lifetime access to all course materials, including future updates
Price: $119
RIGHTSIZING WITH DESIGN is about setting yourself up for success
. . . at home
Who’s this for?
This course is for you if you're feeling the gap between the home you have and the home you need right now. That might look like:
You're a senior or empty nester realizing your home could work so much better for this chapter of life
You're planning a downsize and want to approach it with a clear design vision rather than just panic-purging
You're overwhelmed by accumulated stuff but put off by the "minimalism" label — you want less, but you also want beauty
You're navigating a shared home and need to balance everyone's needs without losing your own
You're a visual thinker who'd benefit from a design-driven approach rather than yet another decluttering checklist
You're going through a life transition — retirement, becoming an empty nester, a move — and your home needs to evolve with you
You're curious about interior design and want practical skills you can actually use
Get started on your Rightsizing journey now with a click of the button below.
Who’s running this thing?
Hi, Eleanor here. I'm an interior designer and longtime Zen student.
I created this course because I kept seeing the same pattern. My Dad, sending me eight boxes of my own journals from his basement — doing the right thing, and also lightening his load. My Aunt, sharing her stress about decades of accumulated stuff. My Mom, eager to downsize so she'd have more freedom to roam.
I thought: what if we approached this like a design problem in need of a design solution?
One of the most valuable skills I've learned is the design process itself. It motivates me to let go, get clear, and be honest about what my home can hold. When I create a layout for a space that I'm excited about, more often than not, the key to success is not overcrowding it.
As a Zen practitioner, I have an abiding appreciation for owning less — though I don't always achieve it. I understand that letting go is hard. I also know that having less means a freer, easier life. This course gives you the design tools to create a vision for how your space could be better, a systematic approach to prioritizing what matters most, and the confidence to make it happen.
Sending you ease in your journey, Eleanor
Don't let overwhelm hold you back. Rightsizing with Design will give you the clarity and confidence to transform your space and simplify your life. Join today and take the first step towards a lighter, brighter future.
