Design services for real first places

Make your first place feel like yours.

Starter Room turns an overwhelming empty apartment into a cohesive, highly personal space—through a designer-made plan, smart shopping list, and styling checklist delivered in 48 hours.

Digital design plans from $149 · Furniture budget stays in your control

Designed for renters, buyers & small spaces
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The Starter Room promise

Less guessing. More living.

48-hour turnaround

A clear room plan, without weeks of back-and-forth.

Built around your room

Every layout starts with your dimensions, needs, and existing pieces.

Your budget, respected

We recommend flexible finds, not a cart full of impossible splurges.

One room, fully figured out

A plan that makes the whole room click.

No warehouse of furniture. No vague mood board. Just the decisions that turn a temporary space into your place.

01 · Send the real details

Photos, measurements, must-keeps, and the life you need your room to hold.

Tell us whether that studio also needs to be an office, gym, dinner spot, or all three. Your space sets the brief.

02 · Get the design file

Your room, mapped.

  • A layout that works at your actual scale
  • A clickable shopping list matched to your budget
  • A styling sequence for the satisfying final layer

03 · Make it yours

Style it, share it, earn toward the next room.

Post your transformation and refer a roommate or friend for Starter Room credit.

Designed to move with you

For now

Make the lease, dorm, or first apartment feel intentional without buying furniture you will regret next year.

For later

Choose modular pieces and a visual language that can follow you from living room to home office to the next address.

Starter Room packages

Pick your level of direction.

Design fees only. You buy directly from the links we curate, so you stay in charge of every dollar.

The Reset

$149

A focused refresh for one corner or one stubborn room problem.

  • Mini layout recommendation
  • Curated edit of up to 10 items
  • One styling direction
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The Starter Room

$299

The complete single-room design for renters and first-time buyers who want a cohesive finish fast.

  • Scaled floor plan and furniture placement
  • Clickable shopping list and budget guidance
  • Hero-piece recommendation and styling checklist

The Move-In

$449

Two connected spaces designed to feel like the same home.

  • Two room plans
  • Unified shopping list
  • Priority 48-hour delivery

Your room is the starting point

Bring us the awkward layout. We'll bring the point of view.

Start with one room, one budget, and a few photos. The rest becomes much easier.

Choose your package