The Rooms by Design process will guide you to having a home that reflects your spirit and individuality. "After all, if we can't be our real selves in our own homes, how will we express ourselves in the outside world?" asks designer Debra Gould.

It's not about how much you spend on furnishings or renovations, it's about careful consideration of all of the items in your home. It's about letting go of things you don't like or find useful even when that means giving away something you've had for years.

We help transform your home by re-organizing what you have (sometimes using it in different ways), helping you let go of items you no longer need and perhaps improving the lighting and colors. Often an entire house is transformed just by moving furniture around between the rooms!

Where cost effective, new finishes or furnishings are added for a completely new look that better meets the needs of your family.

The first step is to carefully evaluate what is working and what isn't in the space. Next, you must be willing to take the important step of parting with items that no longer serve you. Don't worry, we don't believe in throwing things out just for the sake of having something new. If it's something you really like then it belongs in the redesigned space. If you've always hated it and maybe never got around to doing something about it or were afraid to let it go, that's a different story! You will be amazed at how liberating this process can be!

"Taking something as simple as what's in our homes and changing it can be a process that begins to lead us to rediscover who we are. By letting what we really want into our own homes, we start to let what we really want into our lives," says Debra explaining a big part of her interest in home decor.

An initial two to three hour in-home Rooms by Design (interior redesign) consultation will guide you through this process, focusing on transforming a single room or your entire house— it's entirely up to you!

A standard two-storey Toronto house costs $442,500 and eats up an astounding 51% of median before tax income!

A typical townhouse fetches $291,000 and uses up 34% of a family's pre-tax income.

For a condo the figures are $241,000 and 28%.

(Source: RBC Financial Group study, reported in the Toronto Star, June 11/05)

"Instead of always trading up to bigger and more expensive homes, many of my clients are better served by looking for ways to make the current house work better for them," says Debra Gould, president of Six Elements Inc.

"Some home staging clients initially hired me to decorate their homes to sell, only to realize once I was done that they loved what they already had," says Gould also known as The Staging Diva. "A few families decided not to move after all!"

Have you ever worked out the cost of selling your home and moving? Imagine if you put only a small fraction of that amount into improving what you already have.