Your Personality Type Has
Always Known What Your
Home Should Look Like.
The first complete home design system built around how your specific brain experiences space. Every personality type. Every room. Exact palettes. One system that finally makes sense of everything.
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Your Room Looks Good.
So Why Doesn’t It Feel Right?
You’ve done everything correctly. Scrolled the inspiration boards. Bought the furniture. Chose the paint. Hired someone. The room is fine. Better than fine, probably. And somehow, still completely wrong. You’ve never been able to say exactly why. But the feeling never left.
The design industry produces advice for an imaginary average person. Trends are written for magazine photographs. Rules are written for showrooms. None of it was built for the specific way your brain processes space: what it needs to feel at rest, what it instinctively rejects, what it requires before a room ever feels like home.
That mismatch has a name. It has a framework. And once you understand it, every design decision you’ve ever gotten wrong will suddenly make complete sense.
What If the Problem Was Never
Your Taste?
Personality type research has documented something the design world has largely ignored: different types of minds have measurably different requirements from the spaces they inhabit. Not preferences. Requirements.
The introvert and the extrovert don’t just prefer different environments. Their nervous systems respond to the same space in fundamentally different ways. A dominant intuitive doesn’t just have different taste. They have a different neurological requirement for what a room must do before it feels coherent. A Judging type experiences visual incompletion as genuine cognitive discomfort. A Perceiving type experiences a fully “finished” room as closed and lifeless.
Designed by Type is the first complete home design system built on this understanding. Not a quiz with a color suggestion attached. A room-by-room design system built from the cognitive architecture up, specific enough to take straight to any paint store, furniture showroom, or renovation conversation.
Everything You've Been Missing.
Finally Organized Into One System.
Here is a fraction of what you'll discover the moment you enroll.
Why beautiful rooms still feel wrong, and the specific cognitive mechanism your brain uses to reject them
The one room in your home that reveals more about your type than any test you've ever taken
Which of the eight cognitive functions governs your private spaces, and exactly what your bedroom must do for your nervous system before you'll ever sleep deeply there
Why two people can follow identical design advice and end up with completely opposite results: one right, one irreparably wrong
The four temperament families and the entirely different design languages each one operates in, and why borrowing from the wrong one always ends the same way
The difference between a room designed to feel finished and a room designed to stay alive, and which your brain is actually asking for
The single highest-impact design decision for your specific type: the one most people with your type never make
Why rooms you love in photographs consistently disappoint you in real life, and the exact mechanism behind it
How to design a shared home that genuinely honors two different types without one person's vision quietly consuming the other
The design trap specific to your type: the predictable, repeatable mistake named, explained, and corrected
Exact paint names by type from the brands you already know. Walk into any store and ask for them by name, no guesswork
How to use AI image tools to visualize your type's complete home before spending a single dollar
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5 Professional Google Sheet
Home Design Planning Tools
Not generic templates. Purpose-built instruments for serious homeowners, each one designed to eliminate a specific decision that slows your project down, costs you money, or makes you second-guess everything.
RenoRevolution Home Renovation Planner
Your complete renovation command center. Budget dashboard, project tracker, week-by-week Gantt timeline, contractor quotes, and paint log, all in one connected sheet. Enter your total budget and every line item tracks against it automatically.
Room-by-Room Design Planner
Plan every space in your home in one place. Dimensions, flooring, style direction, color palette, furniture wishlist, budget vs. actual, supplier contacts, and mood board notes, with a tab for every room and auto-calculated square footage.
Paint Color Decision Matrix
Stop second-guessing paint. Enter up to 8 colors you're considering, set the weight of 10 scoring criteria to match what matters to you, and score each color. Weighted totals calculate automatically and rank your options so the right choice becomes obvious before you open a single sample pot.
Contractor Bid Comparison Sheet
Compare up to 3 contractor bids line by line, with automatic flags on any item where one bid is more than 20% above or below the average. Then score each contractor across 8 weighted criteria including price, experience, references, insurance, and more, and let the data tell you who to hire. No more choosing on gut feel at the worst possible moment.
Kitchen & Bathroom Selections Tracker
Every finish, fixture, and fitting for your kitchen, bathrooms, and laundry, tracked from Wishlist through to Installed in one sheet. One tab per room, pre-populated by category, with a live budget summary dashboard that shows you exactly where you stand across every room at a glance. The tool that keeps a renovation from becoming a surprise.
Is This System Right for You?
This Is for You If…
- Your home looks fine but doesn't feel right, and you've never been able to say exactly why
- You've spent real money on your space and still feel like something essential is missing
- You've returned furniture, repainted walls, and followed the rules, and ended up with a room that feels like someone else's
- You share a home with someone whose design instincts feel completely different from yours
- You're renovating, redecorating, or starting from scratch and want to get it genuinely right this time
- You want exact colors, real paint names, and specific room-by-room direction rather than more general inspiration
- You've always suspected that personality type explains more about your design problems than anything else you've tried
This Is Not for You If…
- You already work with a designer who builds entirely around your specific cognitive preferences, though this system gives you the language to brief them at a level of specificity you've never had before
- You want a technical construction or renovation manual. This is a design system, not a building guide
- You believe personality type frameworks are fundamentally meaningless. This system operates at a depth of cognitive function theory that won't persuade a committed skeptic
Jon Dykstra, Certified Personality Type Practitioner
and Founder of Home Stratosphere
Certified Personality Type Practitioner
Jon Dykstra is the founder of Home Stratosphere, one of the most trusted home design destinations on the web, a certified personality type practitioner, and a former owner of an interior design firm. He brings extensive experience applying cognitive function theory to behavioral patterns, relationships, and environmental preferences.
Designed by Type represents the synthesis of both: serious depth in type psychology applied to spatial design at this level of practical specificity for the first time. Not a blog post with a quiz attached. A complete design system built on the deepest available framework for understanding how different minds experience space, translated into guidance specific enough to use in any real design conversation.
Home Stratosphere reaches millions of homeowners every year. This system was built for the ones who've always known that something more specific, something built around how they actually think, was possible.
Designed by Type
The Complete Personality Type Home Design System
- The complete Designed by Type system: 61 lessons across five parts
- 16 full home profiles, room by room, for every personality type
- 8 dominant function chapters covering the private space and bedroom deep dives
- Exact color palettes with specific paint names from Farrow & Ball, Benjamin Moore, and Sherwin-Williams
- 300+ custom room images across all 16 types
- Complete shared home compatibility framework with five detailed pairing scenarios
- Home office, children's rooms, small spaces, rental design, and outdoor spaces by type
- AI visualization guide + complete type-based design brief template
- Bonus: 5 professional Google Sheet home design planning tools
14-Day Money-Back Guarantee. Enroll, work through the system, and if it isn't right for you, email us within 14 days for a complete refund. No questions, no hoops.
Questions Before You Enroll
Your Home Should Feel Like You.
Finally, It Can.
Not like a trend. Not like a showroom. Not like the person who lived here before you. Like the specific, irreplaceable person who actually lives in this house, with the brain you have, the cognitive architecture you were born with, and the design vocabulary you now have to build a space that finally makes complete sense.
Enroll in Designed by Type for $27 →Instant access · 14-day money-back guarantee · All 16 types
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This system was developed with AI-assisted research and writing with human editorial oversight, by a certified personality type practitioner. Room images were created using AI image generation to illustrate design concepts specific to each personality type. © Home Stratosphere. All rights reserved.