About Us
Design Insight, Grounded in Experience
LivingFinds is an interior design publication for people who care about the spaces they live in. We cover trends, share practical decor advice, and publish style guides you can actually use.
What We Cover
- Decoration — Decoration is where a room stops being furnished and starts being yours. This section covers the finishing layer: art and gallery walls, textiles and throws, rugs, mirrors, shelf styling, and the accessories that carry personality without cluttering a space. The guides here are practical rather than aspirational — measured hanging heights, spacing rules, and layering formulas you can execute in an afternoon with a tape measure and a level. We pay particular attention to the pieces you touch every day: which fabrics survive a household with kids or pets, which materials age gracefully, and where inexpensive swaps like paint, hardware, or lampshades outperform costly ones. Most rooms don't need new furniture — they need a better final layer, and that's what these guides deliver.
- Interior Design — Interior design is more than choosing pretty objects — it's the discipline of making a space feel inevitable: proportions that sit right, circulation that flows, and a palette that holds a room together without shouting. This section covers the principles behind cohesive interiors and the styles worth understanding before you commit a budget to one — working guides to movements like Japandi, organic modern, and modern Tuscan: what defines them, the materials they depend on, and how to adapt them to a real floor plan rather than a showroom. We order decisions the way they should actually be made — layout before lighting, lighting before furniture, furniture before accessories — and every guide is grounded in rooms people actually live in, with kids, pets, budgets, and rental agreements.
- Renovation — Renovation is where design meets consequences — the structural, mechanical, and budget decisions that are expensive to change once the walls close up. This section covers remodels from planning through finish selection: kitchens and bathrooms, layout changes, and the unglamorous choices like ventilation, lighting circuits, and built-in storage that determine how a space performs a decade on. The guides are written from an architectural-design perspective: what's load-bearing in both the literal and the financial sense, where quality is worth paying for, and which finishes tolerate real wear. The goal is to make you a better client and planner — someone who can read a quote, question a shortcut, and sequence a project so the expensive trades only come once.
- Room Guides — Every room has its own physics: traffic paths, sight lines, and daily routines that decide whether a layout works before style even enters the conversation. Our room guides take one space at a time — living rooms, bedrooms, home offices, entryways — and walk through layouts that actually function: measured clearances, lighting plans, and furniture that earns its footprint. These are working documents, not mood boards. Expect specific dimensions, spacing rules, and the reasoning behind them, so you can adapt the advice to your own floor plan instead of copying someone else's photograph. Starting a room from zero? Begin with its layout guide. Finished room still feels wrong? The diagnosis is usually circulation or lighting — both are covered here.
- Sustainable Living — Sustainable living at home starts with buying fewer, better things — and being able to tell genuine environmental claims from marketing. This section covers eco-friendly materials, non-toxic home goods, and the brands that document their supply chains rather than just photographing plants in their showrooms. Every recommendation is checked against third-party certification registries — FSC for wood, GOTS and GOLS for textiles and latex, GREENGUARD and OEKO-TEX for chemical safety — and we explain what each label actually verifies, because some are far stricter than others. You'll find vetted brand roundups for furniture, mattresses, and rugs, plus practical explainers on spotting greenwashing. The most sustainable purchase is usually the piece you keep for twenty years; these guides are built around finding it.
- Trends — Design trends are only useful when you can separate the ones with staying power from the ones that will look dated by next spring. This section tracks seasonal and annual direction in interiors — colours, materials, silhouettes, and the broader shifts behind them, drawn from trade shows, industry reports, and what brands are actually shipping. Every forecast comes with a durability judgment: whether a trend is a safe structural investment, like a finish or a layout idea, or a low-commitment accent you should be able to walk back cheaply. We'd rather talk you out of an expensive trend than into one. Read these alongside our style explainers — a trend only earns a place in your home if it works with the bones of the space and survives daily routine.
Editorial Standards
Every article we publish is written by someone with hands-on experience in interior design, home styling, or the decor industry. We don't run sponsored content disguised as editorial.
Our goal is straightforward: give readers the information they need to make confident design decisions — whether that's choosing a paint colour, furnishing a first apartment, or understanding a design trend before it peaks.
Why Readers Trust LivingFinds
Original
Independently researched and written — every recommendation verified against manufacturer documentation and third-party certification registries, never repackaged press releases.
Practical
Advice that works in real homes, at real budgets — vetted against third-party standards and hands-on design experience before we publish.
Independent
Recommendations are based on editorial judgement, never paid placement. Some links earn us a commission, which never changes our picks — see our disclosure.
Meet the Team
The people behind the articles — designers, writers, and enthusiasts who live and breathe interiors.
James Whitfield
James Whitfield is an architectural designer turned interiors writer. Before joining LivingFinds he wrote for Dwell and Architectural Digest, covering residential architecture and renovation. James handles the structural side of the magazine: renovation planning, kitchen and bathroom design, and the load-bearing decisions — literal and budgetary — that determine whether a remodel ages well. His articles focus on the craft behind spaces that last: how materials meet, why certain details fail early, and where spending more buys longevity rather than looks. When he reviews furniture and fixtures, he evaluates them the way he was trained to evaluate buildings — by construction method, material honesty, and repairability first, styling second.
LivingFinds
LivingFinds Editorial is the staff byline for guides produced collaboratively by our writers and editors. These pieces — brand roundups, trend reports, and style explainers — go through the same verification standard as our individually bylined work: every certification claim is checked against the issuing body's public registry, pricing is confirmed with the manufacturer at publication time, and no ranking is influenced by payment or affiliate relationships. We update editorial guides when brands change their materials, pricing, or certifications, and note the update date on the article. If you spot something out of date, tell us through the contact page — corrections make the guides better for everyone.
Sofia Reyes
Sofia Reyes is a residential interior designer with eight years of experience transforming small urban apartments and family homes. She specialises in colour theory, space planning, and the intersection of comfort and style — the practical middle ground where real households actually live. On LivingFinds, Sofia writes the room-by-room guides and materials-focused buying advice, and she leads the research behind our sustainable furniture coverage: verifying certification claims against issuing-body registries, reading warranty small print, and pressure-testing “eco” marketing language before a brand earns a recommendation. Her design philosophy is that a home should work harder than it looks: durable materials, layouts that fit daily routines, and pieces worth keeping for a decade. The most sustainable room, in her view, is the one you don't have to redo in three years.
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