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Reslisdence is an interior design reference written by Claire Beaumont and Sophie Renner. Claire brings eleven years of professional interior design to every room guide and decor breakdown. Sophie brings a practical home enthusiast perspective, the kind that comes from actually rearranging your apartment six times to get it right.
The site exists because most interior design content online falls into one of two traps. It either reads like a catalog, organized around products and affiliate links with no real sense of why one choice works better than another. Or it reads like a design textbook: accurate in theory, completely disconnected from the reality of decorating a real home with real constraints. Reslisdence is an attempt to occupy the space in between.
What You Will Find Here
The guides on this site are built around principles, not trends. When Claire writes about emphasis in interior design, she explains the actual mechanics behind why certain focal points hold a room together and others fragment it. When Sophie writes about sourcing and budget decorating, she covers the decisions she actually made, including the ones that did not work out.
The subject matter covers a broad range: living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, specific aesthetics, seasonal updates, and the practical questions that come up when you are genuinely trying to make a space work. If you want to understand how to use flowers and plants as design elements rather than afterthoughts, or if you are trying to figure out whether mid-century modern furniture will suit your space or just look out of place, you will find that kind of specific, considered guidance here.
About Claire Beaumont
Claire studied Interior Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology and spent eight years at a residential design firm in Chicago before starting her own independent practice. In that time she worked on everything from compact urban studios to large single-family homes, across style categories ranging from traditional to heavily contemporary.
Her background is in solving problems. A client who loves the warmth of a Japandi aesthetic but lives in a dark north-facing apartment. A couple who want minimalism but have three children and no storage. A rental tenant who cannot paint the walls or change the fixtures but still wants the space to feel like their own. These are the kinds of challenges that shaped how she thinks about design, and they shape how she writes about it. Her guides are not aspirational in the abstract sense. They are practical in a way that comes from actually having to make things work.
At Reslisdence, Claire covers the more technical side of design: proportion, light, material selection, how to evaluate whether a layout makes sense before you move a single piece of furniture. She is less interested in what is popular right now than in the underlying principles that explain why certain rooms consistently work and others consistently feel off.
About Sophie Renner
Sophie is not a professional designer, and she is upfront about that. She is a self-taught decorator based in Austin, Texas, who has worked through four different homes on real budgets, made a lot of mistakes, and developed strong opinions as a result. She approaches interior design from the position of someone who has to actually figure it out, which makes her a useful counterpart to Claire’s professional training.
Her writing focuses on the relatable challenges of doing this in real life. How to identify an aesthetic you love and translate it into a space you actually live in. Where the worthwhile budget splurges are and where they are not. How to work within the constraints of renting, of limited square footage, of furniture that came from a previous place and does not quite fit the new one. She is honest about what she tried, what failed, and what she would do differently.
Sophie covers a lot of the stylistic territory on the site: specific aesthetics, room types, seasonal updates, sourcing questions. She has a particular interest in the newer and more niche design directions that sit outside the mainstream, the ones that do not have a lot of clear, usable guidance yet.
How Reslisdence Approaches Design Content
The two writers on this site come from different ends of the design world, and that difference is intentional. There are questions that benefit from professional training: the logic of how color behaves under different lighting conditions, why certain spatial arrangements create flow and others create friction, how to prioritize when budget forces trade-offs. And there are questions that benefit from lived experience: what it actually costs to furnish a room, which pieces hold up in practice versus just photographing well, how to make real decisions when you are constrained by circumstance.
Good interior design content should be honest about both. Reslisdence does not pretend that every space can look like a magazine spread, and it does not pretend that good design requires professional training or unlimited budget. What it does try to do is give you the information to make genuinely better decisions about your space, whether that means understanding which current design directions have real staying power and which are purely seasonal, or understanding the basic rules that determine why some arrangements feel right and others never quite settle.
You can read more about both writers on the Our Contributors page.