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Designed by Type: The Complete Personality Type Home Design System | Home Stratosphere
Designed by Type · A Home Stratosphere System

Stop Copying Beautiful Rooms That Never Feel Like You.

You know your personality type. Now see what it looks like as an entire home — living room, kitchen, bedroom, office, bathroom, color palette, furniture, lighting and more.

  • All 16 personality types
  • 300+ custom room designs
  • Exact paint colors by type
  • 5 renovation planning tools
$27 one payment · instant access · 14-day guarantee
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Designed by Type personality-based home design system
16 Complete type profiles
300+ Custom room images
61 Lessons across the system
5 Planning tools included
The problem with most design advice

You Can Spend Thousands Making a Room Look Better — and Still Make It Feel More Wrong.

Most of us decorate backwards. We start with the room. We search for a style. We save somebody else’s kitchen. We copy a living room. We buy the sofa. We choose the paint. We follow the rules.

And sometimes the finished room looks objectively good.

But you still don’t want to be in it.

Maybe it’s too empty. Too busy. Too precious. Too beige. Too open. Too finished. Too chaotic. Too formal. Too exposed. Or simply too much like somebody else’s idea of a beautiful home.

The problem isn’t necessarily your taste. The problem may be the starting point.

Designed by Type starts with the person who has to live in the room — then works outward.

How it works

Three Steps From “I Like That” to “This Actually Feels Like Me.”

Instead of starting with a trend, the system starts with your type and translates it into decisions you can actually make.

01

Find Your Type

Already know it? Go straight to your profile. If not, the system shows you where to start and how to orient yourself quickly.

02

See Your Type as a Home

Move from abstract personality language to actual rooms, materials, palettes, furniture, lighting, organization and visual examples.

03

Use It on Real Decisions

Take the ideas to the paint store, furniture showroom, renovation meeting or the room you’re standing in right now.

What gets interesting

The More Specific the Question Gets, the More Useful Personality Type Becomes.

This is where the system goes far beyond “your type likes blue.”

01

Why Do You Keep Saving Rooms You’d Never Actually Want to Live In?

A photo only has to impress you for five seconds. Your living room has to work on a Tuesday night. The system helps separate visual attraction from livability.

02

Why Does “Calm and Minimal” Feel Peaceful to One Person and Dead to Another?

Two people can look at the same professionally designed room and want completely different things from it. Your type gives you a useful language for understanding why.

03

Which Room in Your House Says the Most About the Way You Actually Want to Live?

The rooms we show guests are not always the rooms that reveal us. Private spaces often tell a much more useful story.

04

Why Does One Person Need a Room to Feel Finished While Another Starts Changing It the Minute It’s Done?

Some people relax when everything has a settled place. Others feel trapped by a room that can’t evolve. That difference matters when you’re designing a shared home.

05

What’s the Decorating Mistake Your Personality Type Is Most Likely to Keep Making?

Every strength can be overdone. Each type profile includes the design tendencies that can push a room past “this feels like me” into “why did I do this again?”

06

What Happens When Your Partner’s Ideal Home Is Almost the Opposite of Yours?

Instead of arguing about whose taste is “better,” the shared-home framework gives both people a way to explain what they’re actually trying to protect.

07

What Would Your Type Actually Put on the Walls?

Not vague color families. The system includes exact paint names from Farrow & Ball, Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams so the idea can become a real room.

08

What Does Your Personality Type Look Like as a Kitchen, Bedroom, Office and Living Room?

This is the part people usually want to skip to first: hundreds of custom room visualizations that turn the framework into something you can see immediately.

What you’re actually buying

Not More Inspiration. A Better Way to Make the Next Design Decision.

Use the parts that fit you. Ignore the parts that don’t. The point isn’t to obey your type. It’s to stop decorating on autopilot.

See it

16 Complete Personality-Type Homes

Every type gets a room-by-room design direction covering the spaces, materials, colors, furniture and visual character that make the concept tangible.

Choose it

Exact Palettes You Can Take to the Paint Store

Move past “warm neutral” and “muted green.” Get specific paint names from brands you already know, with enough direction to actually make a decision.

Understand it

Your Type’s Design Strengths — and Its Predictable Traps

See what your natural tendencies can do beautifully, where they can go too far, and what to watch before you repeat the same decorating mistake.

Share it

A Framework for Two People Who Don’t Want the Same House

Use personality language to identify the real tension underneath disagreements about clutter, openness, color, order, privacy, display and how “finished” a room should feel.

For $27, You Can Stop Guessing at the Next Room You Design.

One wrong paint color costs more. One throw pillow costs more. One chair you regret costs a lot more.

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Personality type home design examples
The shared-home problem

Two People Can Love Each Other and Still Hate Each Other’s Furniture.

One person wants clean surfaces. The other wants objects around them. One wants a finished room. The other wants room to keep changing it. One wants quiet. The other wants energy.

Most design arguments sound like arguments about couches, paint and clutter.

Often the more useful question is: what does each person need the room to do?

Designed by Type includes a shared-home compatibility framework and detailed pairing scenarios to help two different people build one home without one person’s preferences swallowing the other.

Included with the system

You Don’t Just Get Ideas. You Get the Tools to Keep a Real Project From Turning Into Chaos.

Five working Google Sheets are included with your enrollment.

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Home Renovation Planner

Budget dashboard, project tracker, timeline, contractor quotes and paint log in one connected sheet.

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Room-by-Room Design Planner

Track dimensions, flooring, palette, furniture, suppliers, budget and mood-board notes for every room.

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Paint Color Decision Matrix

Compare up to eight colors against weighted criteria and let the sheet rank your options before you repaint.

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Contractor Bid Comparison

Compare three bids line by line and flag unusually high or low numbers before you hire anyone.

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Kitchen & Bathroom Selections Tracker

Keep every finish, fixture, purchase and budget number together from wishlist through installation.

Bonus value

These Are Not “Course Bonuses” You’ll Never Open.

They’re practical project tools built for the exact moment when a renovation generates too many decisions, quotes, colors, fixtures and receipts to keep in your head.

Jon Dykstra, founder of Home Stratosphere Jon Dykstra Myers Briggs Personality Type Certification
Why I built this

I’ve Spent Years Thinking About Homes. I’ve Also Spent Years Thinking About Personality Type. Eventually Those Two Things Collided.

I’m Jon Dykstra, founder of Home Stratosphere, a Certified Personality Type Practitioner and a former owner of an interior design business.

I kept coming back to one question: if personality type is useful for understanding how people think, work, communicate and make decisions, what happens when you apply the same framework to the place where they spend more time than anywhere else?

I didn’t want to make a cute “pick your type, get a paint color” quiz. I wanted to see what happened when all 16 types were pushed all the way into complete rooms.

That’s what Designed by Type became: a deep, practical exploration of personality type translated into living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, offices, bathrooms, shared homes, palettes and actual design decisions.

It isn’t a scientific claim that every person with the same type wants the same sofa. It’s a framework — one more useful lens for designing a home that fits the people who actually live there.

Get the complete system

$27 to See Your Personality Type Turned Into an Entire Home.

Start with your type. Jump straight to the rooms you care about. Use the ideas that click. Keep the system for every room you design next.

  • 61 lessons across the complete Designed by Type system
  • 16 full home profiles covering every personality type
  • 300+ custom room images across all 16 types
  • Exact paint palettes with Farrow & Ball, Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams colors
  • Shared-home compatibility guidance and detailed pairing scenarios
  • Home offices, children’s rooms, small spaces, rentals and outdoor spaces by type
  • AI visualization guidance and a type-based design brief template
  • 5 professional Google Sheet home-design planning tools
$27 one-time payment · instant access · yours to keep
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14-Day Money-Back Guarantee. Go through your type, look at the rooms and use the recommendations. If the system isn’t worth $27 to you, email us within 14 days for a full refund.
Questions

Everything You Need to Know Before You Buy.

Do I need to know my personality type first?+
No. The system begins with an orientation and recommends free assessments you can use to get started. If you already know your type, you can jump straight to your profile.
Is this just 16 lists of colors and decorating styles?+
No. The point is to translate personality patterns into complete rooms and practical design choices: palette, materials, furniture, lighting, organization, visual density, private spaces, shared spaces and the mistakes each type can be prone to making.
My partner and I have completely different taste. Will this help?+
That’s one of the most useful parts of the system. The shared-home section looks at common tensions between different types and gives you a framework for designing a home where both people can recognize themselves.
I’m renting. Is this still useful?+
Yes. The system includes rental-friendly design guidance using furniture, textiles, lighting, art and objects rather than permanent renovation.
How do I get the five Google Sheet tools?+
They’re included with enrollment and linked inside the course. Open each sheet, make your own copy and start using it immediately.
How is everything delivered?+
The complete system is delivered through Teachable and is available immediately after purchase on desktop, tablet or phone.
What’s the guarantee?+
You have 14 days. Go through the system and if it isn’t right for you, email us within that period for a complete refund.
One last thought

You Can Keep Designing Around Rooms You Like. Or You Can Finally Start Designing Around the Person Who Lives There.

Sixteen personality types. Hundreds of room visualizations. Exact palettes. Shared-home guidance. Five planning tools. One completely different place to start.

Show Me My Type’s Home — $27 →
Instant access · one payment · 14-day money-back guarantee

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.

 
 
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