Design Psychology
Whether it’s your wardrobe or your home, our consultations focus on helping you achieve emotional wellness by crafting styles that reflect your values, tastes, and aspirations.
Design Psychology Consultation
Create a Home That Reflects and Nurtures You
At Trulery, our Design Psychology service helps you connect emotionally with your space by applying psychological principles to home design. If your home feels disconnected from your personality, is just a place where you eat and sleep, or just doesn’t feel like you, this service will guide you through a transformative process to create a space that truly supports your well-being.
Through personalized exercises, you’ll:
Explore your past and positive associations with previous spaces.
Understand how your personality influences your current home environment.
Develop an ideal home statement that aligns with your emotional and aesthetic needs.
At the end of the consultation, you’ll receive a customized blueprint for a home that not only meets your design preferences but also supports your emotional growth and well-being.
Benefits Include:
Emotional Connection: Design a home that truly reflects your personality and values.
Personal Growth: Gain deeper insights into your past and present spaces to support emotional well-being.
Functional Beauty: Create a space that’s both aesthetically pleasing and emotionally nourishing, tailored to your unique needs.
Transform your living space into a self-actualized home that nurtures and inspires you.
Services:
Ideal Home Vision
Design Psychology Consultation
This service helps you design a space that nurtures your emotional well-being and aligns with your functional and aesthetic needs. Through a series of personalized sessions and guided exercises, you’ll develop a clear vision for your home and receive a comprehensive design plan.
What's Included:
Four 90-minute virtual or in-person sessions
Nine guided exercises to shape your home vision
A detailed blueprint of your ideal space, with layout suggestions, furniture recommendations, and design guidelines
A virtual mood board capturing the look and feel of your ideal home
Cost:
$1000 (covers all sessions and materials)
Ideal Home Vision + Interior Styling
After completing your Ideal Home Vision blueprint, this package brings your design to life with a professionally styled room. We handle everything from refining your design to managing the project for a smooth transformation.
What's Included:
Everything from the Ideal Home Vision package
A 60-minute session to refine the design, take room measurements, and address any concerns
A complete floor plan, furniture layout, lighting plan, color scheme, and budget
Full project management, including coordination with contractors and handling all communications to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Cost:
Cost of Ideal Home Vision + 25% on all furnishings purchased
Style Refresh
Update Your Space with What You Already Own
The Style Refresh package offers a quick and affordable way to refresh one room using your existing furnishings. We’ll help you rearrange and style your space to create a new look that reflects your personality and needs, all through the lens of design psychology.
What's Included:
A design questionnaire, test results, and follow-up questions
Styling and arranging your existing furnishings based on your unique preferences
A consultation with design feedback, solutions for design dilemmas, and insights into design psychology
Cost:
$200
Case Study
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Look and Feel
Client declined a full kitchen renovation. He wanted to keep the countertops, the cabinets, and flooring as well as the appliances so we made changes with paint and furnishings.
During our work together, we discovered that client wanted an eclectic, bohemian, artsy home.
He wanted to create a warm and lively atmosphere using handmade/vintage furnishings, original art, references to nature, sentimental objects, patterned fabrics/wallpaper, and nurturing and relaxing paint colors and materials (e.g., green, rattan, wood).
It was important for the space to reflect his Russian culture using objects and ornate furnishings. And streamlined, mid-century modern furnishings highlight his desire for practicality and functionality.
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The psychological benefits of color
GREEN
Olive green offers psychological benefits such as promoting calmness, grounding, and a sense of stability.
Kelly green captures the nurturance associated with green, yet the two-toned greens create some artsy tension without being overly stimulating.
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The psychological benefits of natural tones and textures
NATURAL WOOD TONES
Natural wood tones and rattan contributes to the warm atmosphere as does the natural references including modern floral wallpaper and star light.
Wood's organic texture adds depth and authenticity, inspiring feelings of balance and tranquility.
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The psychological benefits of diverse patterns and original art
Diverse patterns on rugs and wallpaper, and original art help to create the bohemian, cultural vibe.
The black of the cabinet knobs and the ornate oversized mirror draw inspiration from the intricate styling often seen in Russian folk patterns, reflecting the bold and decorative elements typical of traditional Russian prints.
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Ideal home statement
The ideal home statement is the foundation for the look and feel of the space.
My ideal home is warm with references to nature, lively with character, and a sense of practicality.
It reflects both a spirit of nurturance and independence that comes from a connection to my loved ones, ethnic heritage, and community; and an eclectic, artsy, bohemian ambience.
Design Psychology Consultation
3 Steps to Create Your Ideal Space
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1: Home Vision Development
We begin with guided exercises where we explore your history of place and identify how your personality and emotional needs shape your current space. Along the way, you’ll develop a personalized home vision that connects your emotional, social, and aesthetic needs.
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2: Blueprint Creation
I’ll create a detailed design blueprint, including layout suggestions, color schemes, furniture recommendations, and an overall home statement that aligns with your well-being.
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3: Implementation (Optional)
For those who choose the "Ideal Home Vision + Interior Styling" package, we move from planning to action, refining the design and managing the entire project to bring your space to life.
Not sure where to start?
To help you determine if my services are the right fit, I offer a 15-minute complimentary phone consultation for all of my design and wardrobe services. During this session, we can discuss your needs, answer any questions, and review how the process works. If you’re ready to dive in, we’ll outline the next steps and get started on your path toward transforming your space or wardrobe.