The Lori Brunner Interior Design Academy
Learn the Art of Designing a Beautiful Home
You know when a room feels beautiful. But do you know why it works?
I created The Academy to teach you the principles, process, and decision-making skills professional designers use to create rooms that feel cohesive, personal, and beautifully considered.
This isn’t about copying someone else’s home or following a decorating formula. It’s about learning how to see like a designer—so you can create a home that feels unmistakably your own.
You Don’t Need Better Taste. You Need a Process.
Maybe you know what you like, but you’re not sure how to bring it all together.
Professional designers use principles of scale, proportion, color, balance, lighting, materials, pattern, art, and composition to guide their decisions.
And those principles can be learned.
Once you understand why a room works, you can stop second-guessing every decision and begin creating with confidence.
From My Classroom to Your Home
Designer. Artist. Educator.
As an interior designer, artist, and former professor of Interior Design, I’ve spent years both creating beautiful spaces and teaching the principles behind them.
I don’t want to teach you simply what to buy or what’s currently in style. I want to teach you how to see, how to make decisions, and how to understand why a room works.
Because the goal isn’t to create a home that looks like mine.
It’s to give you the confidence to create one that looks like you.
What You’ll Learn
The Design Process
Inside The Academy, you’ll learn how to:
- Define your directionEstablish the feeling and concept before you begin decorating.
- Create a cohesive color storyUnderstand how color works throughout a room.
- Master scale & proportionGet the relationships between furniture, rugs, lighting, and art right.
- Layer with confidenceCombine art, lighting, pattern, texture, and materials to create depth.
- Mix rather than matchBring together periods, styles, vintage and new pieces for a collected look.
- Style & editKnow what to add, what to remove, and when a room is finished.
Is The Academy for You?
For People Who Love Beautiful Interiors
The Academy is designed for people who love beautiful interiors but want more confidence creating their own.
Perhaps you have good pieces, but the room doesn’t quite come together. You save endless inspiration but aren’t sure how to translate it to your own home. Or you simply love design and want to understand it at a deeper level.
You don’t need to become an interior designer.
You just need to learn how one thinks.
See the Principles in Practice
My La Jolla Home
My La Jolla home—featured in AD Italia, House & Garden SA, and ELLE Decoration and toured on Homeworthy—is a very personal expression of the principles I teach.
Throughout The Academy, I’ll take you beyond what you see in a finished room and explain why the choices work together.
Become a Founding Member
Be Part of the Beginning
I’m opening The Lori Brunner Interior Design Academy first to a limited group of Founding Members.
Join the waitlist to be among the first invited when enrollment opens and to receive access to special Founding Member pricing.
Joining the waitlist does not obligate you to enroll.
Create a Home That Tells Your Story
Your home doesn’t need to look like mine—or anyone else’s.
My goal is to give you the knowledge and confidence to create a home that could only belong to you.