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Home ID Your persona says who you are.
Home ID says what your home therefore has to do.

Your Home ID is the guide to the design decisions that are right for your persona, with the full reasoning behind every one of them. It is not a style, and not a mood board.

Your persona result is free · the Home ID is US$9 · one report, yours to keep

1report20sectionsUS$9once
Your Home ID The Dreamer softness · intuition · pastel glow · poetry · candlelight · slow living
Your home doesn’t need to impress anyone. It needs to hold you.

One of fifteen — and the reasoning for every line of it.

Not a style, and not a mood board.

What you get

Twenty sections, the same for everyone — only the answers differ.

01US$9

What your home has to do

“What does my home have to do?”

What your home has to do, given your design persona — palette, materials, light, design rules. Built from your free persona result.

Not a style, and not a mood board.

02

One direction of fifteen

“Why this, and not something else?”

Fifteen design personas, and yours is named from what you said about yourself. It is built by retrieval, not invention: every rule is selected from a library pre-curated by an interior architect, and every one arrives with its reasoning visible.

No generic AI outputs. Pre-curated by an interior architect.

03

Nobody sits neatly inside one direction

“What if I am not only this?”

The two closest directions to yours are calculated and named alongside it. They explain the days your home feels slightly off-brief, and they show you where it can move without starting again. All fifteen, in full, live in the Persona Book.

Borrow one move from a neighbouring direction, never a whole scheme.

Real pages

Four sections from a Home ID, as they arrive.

Twenty of these, written for your persona, each one carrying the reasoning that produced it.

04b · Your shadow, in plan

The four things your layout has to solve

Every persona has a pattern that quietly undoes their home. Yours is known — so these are not warnings, they are plan requirements.

If a layout fails two of these four, it is the wrong layout — however good it looks.

06 · Your Home Rituals™

Design around the moments you actually live

The hours you actually spend, given a place to happen in — the first coffee, the hour before bed.

Habits attach to places rather than to intentions — a repeated act becomes automatic when it has a stable setting.

08 · Your palette

Every colour, and the job it does

Not a swatch sheet. Each colour is given the work it is doing in the room, and the reason it was chosen for your persona.

A hex is a starting point, not an answer.

Your lighting

Light is a material. Yours is specified here.

Specified like any other material — what each light is for, and why that one, for the way you actually use the room.

Walk your plan through this day. Anywhere it snags is where the design is not finished.

And three of them as they are set on the page — the specification trio, where every value is named, given its job, and told what it must never be.

Home ID · The Dreamer02
Your visual direction Three honest interpretations

Not every home in your direction looks the same. These three are all faithful to your profile — they differ in what they emphasise. Choose the one that matches the life you’re actually living, not the one that photographs best.

Direction 01

Soft Nordic

Pale, layered, quiet. Sheer at the windows, wool underfoot, everything a half-tone apart.
#F2ECE4
Pale warm oak
Interior · light through sheer
Detail · layered textile
Choose this one if

you want the room to disappear around you

Materials

Linen sheers · Pale oak · Wool

Direction 02

Faded Romantic

Older, warmer, more worn. Antique rose, tarnished brass, fabric with a history.
#F2ECE4
Aged brass
Interior · patina
Detail · faded fabric
Choose this one if

you already own things with meaning

Materials

Antique textile · Tarnished brass · Aged velvet

Direction 03

Shell & Sand

Coastal but not nautical. Bleached, chalky, the palest possible band.
#F2ECE4
Paper & opal
Interior · pale room
Texture · chalk wall
Choose this one if

you want lightness without coldness

Materials

Chalky plaster · Bleached timber · Raw silk

Home ID · The Aesthete04b
Your shadow, in plan The Aesthete · ivory, champagne and one metal The four things your layout has to solve

Every persona has a pattern that quietly undoes their home. Yours is known — so these are not warnings, they are plan requirements.

Perfectionism that becomes paralysis Choose two or three anchors Choose two or three pieces you love completely and build around them. An unfinished room with good bones is better than a finished one with compromises.
Intolerance of disorder Fewer decisions, higher quality One excellent lamp rather than three adequate ones. Fewer things means fewer things to be out of place, which is a design solution rather than a discipline problem.
Difficulty letting go One organic element Introduce one thing that does not behave. A plant with its own opinion, a hand-thrown vessel that is slightly off.
High standards causing stress Design for maintenance Surfaces that forgive, fabrics that launder, a floor that does not show every mark. A beautiful room you are afraid of is not finished.
Home ID · The Minimalist08
Your palette The Minimalist · warm white and one accent Every colour, and the job it does

A hex code with no role is unusable. Each colour is specified by where it goes and how much of it.

Envelope · walls · ~60%
Warm white#F4F0E8

Off-white with yellow in it. The single most important value in your scheme, and the one most often corrected toward grey by mistake.

Secondary · trim, second surface · ~25%
Fine linen#E8E1D4
Warm sand#DBCFBB
Warm grey#BDB8AF
The single accent · choose exactly one
Deep navy#26333F
Forest#2F4034
Matte black#22211F
Home ID · The Naturalist10
Your lighting The Naturalist · daylight first Light is a material. Yours is specified here.

Daylight first · warm · layered · natural shades

Soft / diffused 55%
Sculptural / statement 25%
Architectural / directional 20%
PrimaryDaylight Position seating to the window first.
ShadesNatural material Paper, linen, ceramic, rattan.
NeverArtificial light alone Your greens go grey and the tonal structure collapses.
Why it matters for you Yours is the only palette that fails without real daylight. The narrow tonal band depends on natural light to separate the greens.
Home ID · The Industrialist18
Your search language The Industrialist · concrete, steel and oxide The words that find your things

The whole shopping brief, in forty words — what to type, what to ask for, and what to filter out.

Style & design terms
rawstructureurbanhonest materialsdark metalbrickconcretegritcraftstrength
Materials to ask for
Poured concreteBlackened and brushed steelAged leatherExposed brickPatinated bronze and copper
Brands in your register
VitraBuster + PunchTom DixonFramaStringVintage factory furniture
Filter these out
Decorative without structural reasonThe industrial aesthetic as style
Home ID · The Coastal19
Your neighbours The Coastal · bleached, with one sea note Nobody sits neatly inside one direction

The method runs calculations between all fifteen directions. The closest ones explain the days your home feels slightly off-brief — and show you where it can move without starting again.

The Naturalist The most nature-connected home imaginable. Rooted in the land and the sea simultaneously. Borrow the planting. Real plants in real numbers, tended rather than placed, give an easy room something that needs you.
The Free Spirit Joyful, warm, completely open. The person who makes every gathering feel like a celebration. Borrow one saturated colour. A single strong textile stops a pale room reading as unfinished.
The Dreamer Soft coastal romanticism. The sensitivity that turns the beauty of the place into something that lasts. Borrow the evening light. Lamps low and warm turn a bright room into a different room after sunset.
How to use this Borrow one move from a neighbouring direction, never a whole scheme. A room that borrows two stops being either one.

Every line of it answers one question — what does your home have to do?

What is inside

Every one of them is written for your persona, and every one carries the reasoning that produced it.

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

The unlock

Your persona result is free. Your Home ID is US$9.

The full result — your Persona ID and your whole Lifestyle universe — costs nothing and is complete, not a sample. Home ID is the one thing behind a price, because it turns who you are into what your home has to do.

US$9 one report · yours to keep
credits toward the Persona Book

The unlock is offered after your result lands — never before it.

Why it works · the system only serves

No generic AI outputs. The library it reads from is pre-curated by an interior architect.

The library and all of its reasoning is pre-curated and controlled by an interior architect, and the AI is putting it together and delivering it to you.

The Studio L1 Method

The continuous life cycle of our design journey.

Six stages: each one answers a question, and each one gives you value on its own while still being part of the bigger process. Your Home ID is the third — Environment: how your home has to be, and why.

01Free

Identity

“Who am I, before any room design?”

Your values, your motivation, your preferences. Know yourself before designing your life. Everything downstream depends on getting this right first.

02In your result

Lifestyle

“How do I actually want to live?”

The way you want to live, based on the persona profile. The habits, rituals and priorities that make up how you actually spend your hours.

03US$9

Environment

“How does my home have to be and why?”

Spaces that support your energy, focus and wellbeing. The architecture itself — light, layout, material, flow.

04From US$109

Experience

“How does it feel to be here?”

See your space coming to life — how the home feels to move through.

05First to open

Wellbeing

“How can this home benefit me the most?”

Small intentionally made improvements, that make your home become the sanctuary of everyday life. Ordinary moments get calmer, easier, better.

06Soon

Future Possibility

“What am I building toward next?”

You are not stagnant; you are growing and changing, and so should your home.

US$129All three

The Book Set

“How do I stop spending the budget twice?”

Design a life that feels like you and turn it into a dream home brief you can hand to your builder.

Not sure where to start, or whether your room fits? Write to Studio L1.

And the other fourteen

Your Home ID is yours. The other fourteen directions live in the Persona Book.

Fifteen persona profiles, each with its identity and lifestyle sections and its home section. 441 pages.

The Persona Book · US$89
Where it begins

Your persona result is free. Your Home ID is US$9.

One report, yours to keep · credits toward the Persona Book

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