Something About Your Room Feels Wrong?
The £7 Designer Room Audit
Something about your room feels wrong?
Find out what’s actually holding your room back — before you spend another penny trying to fix it.
Instant digital download · Use it on any room in your home
Get the Designer Room Audit — £7Before you buy anything else...
What if the thing you’re trying to fix isn’t actually the problem?
You know the feeling. The room isn’t terrible. In fact, you may have already bought things you really like.
But when you stand back and look at it, something still feels off.
So you start looking for the answer.
Perhaps the sofa needs different cushions. Maybe that empty corner needs filling. Maybe you need more storage. A new rug. Another lamp. A different paint colour.
And before long, you’re spending money trying to solve a problem you haven’t actually identified yet.
Because a room that doesn’t feel right doesn’t necessarily
need more.
It needs the right diagnosis.
The designer approach
Designers don’t start by shopping.
When I look at a room, I’m not immediately thinking about what I can add to it.
I’m looking at how the room functions. How the furniture relates to the space. Where the light falls. Whether the proportions feel right. What’s creating visual noise. What’s missing — and what absolutely doesn’t need changing.
Because the obvious problem isn’t always the real problem.
The Designer Room Audit helps you look at your own room through that same lens.
So instead of asking “What should I buy?”, you can first answer the much more useful question: “What actually needs fixing?”
A clearer place to start
Stop guessing what your room needs.
Audit what you already have, identify what’s really holding the room back and leave with your top three priorities.
The 8-point Designer Room Audit
Find the problem before you try to solve it.
Work through the eight areas I consider when assessing why a room isn’t quite working.
You’ll score each area, make your observations and use your results to identify the three areas that deserve your attention first.
Just as importantly, you’ll decide what you are not going to spend money on yet.
Not another inspiration guide
You don’t need more ideas. You need clarity.
Pinterest can show you thousands of beautiful rooms. Instagram can give you another twenty things you could buy.
Neither can tell you why your room isn’t working.
This is designed to make you stop, assess the space you already have and make deliberate decisions about what happens next.
- Work through one room at your own pace
- Score all eight areas from 1–3
- Spot the issues having the biggest impact
- Choose your three priorities
- Know what you can stop worrying — and spending — on
Then repeat the same process whenever another room needs your attention.
Before the next purchase
One wrong purchase can cost far more than £7.
A rug that’s the wrong scale. Storage that doesn’t solve the clutter. Another lamp when the real problem is your lighting plan. Furniture bought before you’ve worked out the layout.
The Designer Room Audit is designed to give you something much more useful than another shopping list: a reason for what you do next.
£7
Instant digital download.
Use the process again and again throughout your home.
What you'll receive
Your designer diagnosis, at home.
Download the guide instantly and choose the room that’s frustrating you most.
Work through each diagnostic area, score what’s happening now and make notes as you go.
By the end, instead of having a vague feeling that something isn’t right, you’ll have a much clearer picture of where the problem lies and what deserves your attention first.
Design second.
Spend last.
A note from Elise
I’ve spent 14+ years looking at rooms differently.
As an interior designer, one of the most valuable parts of the design process happens before we choose the beautiful things.
It’s understanding the room.
How it needs to function. Why the current layout feels awkward. Whether the scale is right. How the light changes the space. What needs adding, moving or taking away.
I created the Designer Room Audit to help you slow that process down and look at your own home more objectively — so you can make changes because they solve a problem, not simply because you hope they might.
Beautiful rooms aren’t created by buying everything at once. They’re built through considered decisions, one layer at a time.
Elise Ashley
Interior Designer
Start with the room you have
Before you buy the next thing, find out what your room actually needs.
Use the 8-point Designer Room Audit to identify what’s working, what isn’t and the three changes you should prioritise first.
Get the Designer Room Audit — £7