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The Design Minds Behind Reslisdence
Reslisdence was built around a frustration: interior design content online tends to be either too abstract to use or too product-catalogue to trust. The two writers here come from different ends of the design world. One from professional practice, one from the personal experience of living in spaces and trying to make them work. Between them, they cover everything from the technical principles of good design to the real constraints of decorating on an actual budget.
Claire Beaumont: Lead Writer and Design Expert
Claire holds a degree in Interior Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology and spent eight years at a residential design firm in Chicago before launching her own independent practice. In that time, she designed spaces across every major style category: ranch homes in Montana, speakeasy-inspired basements in Chicago, and compact urban studios that needed to function as living room, office, and guest space all at once.
At Reslisdence, Claire writes about design from first principles. She is less interested in trend cycles than in understanding what makes a style work: the underlying logic of proportion, material, and light that separates a successful room from a confused one. Her guides always explain not just what a style looks like, but why it holds together.
Specialties: Residential interior design across all major style categories, space planning, color theory, material selection, budget prioritization.
Sophie Renner: Contributing Writer and Decor Enthusiast
Sophie is not a professional designer, and that is precisely what makes her useful here. She is a self-taught decorator based in Austin, Texas, who has transformed three apartments and one house on real budgets. She writes from the position of someone who has done the research, made the mistakes, returned the wrong lamp, and eventually figured it out.
Her pieces cover the relatable side of interior design: how to translate an aesthetic you love into a space you actually live in, where to find pieces that perform better than their price suggests, and which elements of a style are genuinely structural versus purely decorative. Her writing is honest about budget, practical about rental constraints, and grounded in the reality that most people are doing this while holding down a full-time job.
Specialties: Budget-conscious decorating, rental-friendly design, novelty aesthetics, practical sourcing guides.