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The ZAREN Method™ Decorate it yourself. With a designer in your corner.

The ZAREN Method Community is a DIY membership for people who want to build their own room themselves, one room at a time, with a real method, weekly guidance and zero live calls, and it is also for architects and interior designers who feel lost when it is time to design and want to learn to apply AI the right way. Everything in writing, at your pace, in your inbox and inside the community.

  • DIY · Build your own room, with a method
  • 100% in writing · No lives
  • One room theme per month
  • A new drop every week
  • 1 extra piece of content every month
  • + Tips on how to apply AI in design
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4 dropsevery month, one per week
Room themeper month, start to finish
Members areaswap ideas, photos and inspiration with other members inside the community
1 extra content1 extra per month, always changing: a Party Kit, a style guide, extra moodboards, a post on the community blog or a longer podcast episode, only for members

THE 5 STEPS

Five steps, one per letter, that take your room from "it's fine, I guess" to unmistakably yours. This is the backbone of the community: every month, every room theme is taught through these five steps.

Z

Zone Your Space

First, we map how you actually live in the room: where you read, work, gather, unwind. Every zone gets a job before anything gets pretty.

A

Anchor With Color

Then we choose the color that holds the whole room together, the anchor everything else orbits around. This is where the room gets its pulse.

R

Refine Your Layers

Texture, pattern, lighting, textiles: the layers that make a room feel finished instead of assembled. Refined one by one, never all at once.

E

Edit With Intention

Now we cut. What stays earns its place, what goes makes room for what matters. Editing is what separates designed from decorated.

N

Now It Is Yours

The final touches land, the shopping list is in your hands, and the room stops looking like a reference photo and starts looking like you. Your own AI preview comes in here too, built by you before you buy anything.

What is The ZAREN Method Community?

It is the do it yourself side of Zaren Studio. The consultancy designs the room for you. The community teaches you to design it yourself, with the same method, the same eye for color, and a designer guiding every step in writing.

Every month is built around one room: a living room, an entryway, a cozy bedroom, and so on. Instead of a pile of random tips, you get one clear theme, broken into four weekly drops, so by the end of the month you know exactly what to do with that space, in what order, and why.

And yes, there will be color. The method was built on bold, joyful rooms with real personality, not on playing it safe. You will learn to use color with confidence, in a home that looks like you, not like a catalog.

No lives. No video calls. No performing on camera at a fixed time. Everything is written, organized and kept inside the community, so you can read, apply and revisit it whenever your schedule allows. Decorating homework that fits a real life, imagine that.

  • One room at a time. A clear monthly theme, so you finish rooms instead of collecting half started ones.
  • Written, always. Guides, checklists, palettes and feedback you can reread, save and actually use.
  • A real method. The same ZAREN Method behind more than 300 designed projects, taught step by step.
  • Parties count too. Every month brings 1 extra piece of content, and it changes every month: it can be a Party Kit, a style guide, extra moodboards, a post on the community blog or a longer podcast episode, only for members. The Party Kit is one of the possible extras, never a fixed promise.
  • Also for professionals. Architects and interior designers who feel stuck when it is time to design are welcome too: the same method, the same palettes and moodboards, and a clear way to apply AI as a preview tool in your own projects.
Color palette for the bedroom: reference photos of olive green and blush pink bedrooms with four color swatches, Deep Olive, Terracotta Rose, Dusty Blush and Charcoal Olive
A color palette: the palette that guides the project, with the chosen style.
Moodboard for the bedroom: cheetah-print headboard and curtains, floral bedding, blush pink ottomans, an olive green armchair and walnut furniture, the finished look of the room
A moodboard: the finished look of the bedroom, with the pieces, colors and textures chosen for it.
Eclectic glam bedroom with blush pink walls and a green velvet armchair
Real projects, real color. This is the eye teaching inside.

For you, decorating your own home

You want to build your own room, at your pace, without hiring a consultancy right away. Inside, you learn the method, build your palette and your moodboard, preview the room with AI and only then put it into practice, with far fewer mistakes.

For architects and interior designers, too

You are a professional who feels stuck when it is time to design, or wants to learn how to apply AI the right way in your process. Here AI becomes your calling card, applied the right way: a realistic preview tool guided by a real method, so you present ideas with more confidence and less guesswork.

Your month inside, week by week

First, what you receive in total, every month: a kit to build your own room, not a finished consultancy project. Briefing and checklist for that room, color palette, ready to use moodboards, the room template, layout ideas for that room and the final shopping list. Define your style: a short quiz to find your ideal style, before choosing the palette. Then, how it is delivered: a little per week, in four drops named by phase, Start, Direction, Assembly and Execution, and the examples in each card show what you can receive in that phase. Always there, outside the weekly drops: the community blog, the fixed AI Library, the extras area and the members area, where you swap ideas, photos and inspiration with other members. And every month also brings 1 extra piece of content, always different: it can be a Party Kit, a style guide, extra moodboards, a post on the community blog or a longer podcast episode, only for members.

Week 1 S1

Start

The opening phase of the month's project, tied to the Zone step. For example, you can receive: a briefing, a checklist, a planning list or a diagnosis of the room. The briefing is crucial: it is where you understand what you really need in that room, your needs and your preferences, and it changes with every room, just like the checklist does. A living room briefing is not a bedroom briefing. Define your style: a short quiz to find your ideal style, before choosing the palette.

Week 2 S2

Direction

The visual phase of the month's project, tied to the Anchor and Refine steps. For example, you can receive: the color palette and the ready to use moodboards for the month's room, together in this phase. The palette always comes before the moodboard, and both come before you choose any furniture, so you know the colors you will use in the room first. Each ready moodboard comes with its palette and its own shopping list, ready to use in your project, and in the fixed AI Library you also learn to build your own.

Week 3 S3

Assembly

The assembly phase of the month's project, tied to the Edit step. For example, you can receive: the room template and layout ideas for the room of the month. The template is one fill in sheet for your room: zones, chosen palette, pieces that stay, pieces to buy and budget. The layout ideas show where the furniture goes in that room, with rug, lighting and circulation tips for that room. Everything happens on screen, on your computer or phone, nothing on paper.

Week 4 S4

Execution

The closing phase of the month's project, tied to the Now step. For example, you can receive: the final shopping list and the action plan to put the room into practice. The layout decides what to buy, so the list already comes out right. And the final AI preview is yours to build: you create it yourself, with the fixed AI Library and the prompts, bringing together the products you selected, your palette and your moodboard, and only then you buy and execute.

Everything you can receive

One list with everything you can receive inside the community: what comes with each month's room theme, the areas that are always there for you to consult anytime, and the extras that can come in along the way.

  • Checklist
  • Briefing, different for every room
  • Style quiz, to define your ideal style
  • Color palette, always before the moodboard
  • Ready to use moodboards, each with its palette and shopping list
  • Template, one fill in sheet for your room
  • Layout ideas for the room of the month
  • Final shopping list
  • Community blog, with useful tips
  • Fixed AI Library, always available
  • Extras area, for everything new that comes up
  • Members area, to swap ideas, photos and inspiration

Community blog

Inside the community, the blog is for useful tips for your home: practical ideas, care, organization and the little everyday decisions that make decorating easier, there to consult whenever you need them.

Fixed AI Library

The AI teaching is fixed here, not a weekly drop: how to build your palette, your own moodboard and your realistic AI preview, with prompts ready to copy, available from day one.

Party Kits

The party kits live here as an archive, and a Party Kit can be the month's extra content whenever it fits the theme — a lovely extra to enjoy in the months when it appears.

Extras area

New documents and extras land here as they come up: a style guide, extra moodboards, a new template, a longer podcast episode, only for members, whatever the month asks for.

Members area

A space just for members, inside the community, to swap ideas, photos and inspiration with each other: share your room, your references and your progress, and see what other members are building too. You are not decorating alone in here.

Plus a podcast, in your pocket

Short public episodes, 3 to 5 minutes, free on Spotify. A longer episode can also come in as a monthly extra, only for members.

3 to 5 minshort public episodes, free on Spotify
Members onlya longer episode, when it comes in as a monthly extra

Preview your room with AI, the ZAREN way

Want to see how your room could look before you change a thing, without losing your personality in the process? The AI teaching lives in a fixed AI Library inside the community, always available to consult, not released week by week, because the teaching does not change: simple guidance and AI prompts for home decor, ready to copy, test and adjust, so you can preview a realistic image of how your room will look before you put anything into practice.

+ Tips on how to apply AI in design

AI is the tool. The method is the eye.

AI helps you turn your plan into a realistic preview of your room, fast. It does not decide the room for you, and it does not design it for you. Inside the community, you learn how to take that preview and run it through the ZAREN Method, so the palette, the layers, the color and the personality are chosen with intention, not by chance.

That is the difference between a pretty image and a room that works in real life. AI gives you speed. The method gives you direction, so you know what to keep, what to change and what to ignore.

Think of it as a preview, not as the designer. If you are not ready to hire a design consultancy, this is how you test your own room first: see a realistic version of it on screen, adjust what does not work, and only then put it into practice, so you can do it yourself with far fewer mistakes. The projects and the method inside the community are created by a designer; AI only helps you visualize your room before it becomes real.

  • Preview before you do it: create a realistic image of your finished room first, check the colors, layout and pieces, and only then buy, paint and move things around.
  • Ready to copy: prompts to preview your room with AI that you can paste, adapt to your measurements, your colors and your budget, and test before you buy or paint anything.
  • With a designer filter: how to read the preview AI gives you, fix what looks generic and bring in color, texture and layers with the ZAREN Method.

Two plans, one community

Both plans get the full monthly rhythm. Club is the complete method for you to do it yourself. Studio is Club plus your personalized monthly cycle: you send your briefing, a photo of your room, your moodboard and your AI preview, and I send back my written feedback on YOUR room. Then the follow-through: you send the before, receive the adjustments, execute, send the after, and I adjust again. And when you pay for Studio for the full year up front, you also receive a gift surprise box with Zaren Studio treats, and the pieces inside may vary. That is what the extra $30 buys: fewer wrong purchases and a room that closes, instead of a room that stalls.

Learn and do it yourself

Club

$19 / month
Or $190 per year, 2 months free

The complete community experience for decorating at your own pace, with the method, the drops and the parties.

  • One room theme per month
  • 4 weekly drops that build your own room, a little per week, in four phases, Start, Direction, Assembly and Execution: briefing and checklist for that room — Define your style: a short quiz to find your ideal style, before choosing the palette. — color palette, ready to use moodboards, each with its palette and its own shopping list, the room template, layout ideas for the room of the month and the final shopping list, plus the fixed areas, the community blog, the fixed AI Library and the extras area
  • Fixed AI Library: learn to build your own moodboard and your own AI preview, always available to consult
  • 1 extra piece of content every month, always different: a Party Kit, a style guide, extra moodboards, a post on the community blog or a longer podcast episode, only for members
  • Everything in writing, no lives, no calls
With my feedback Everything in Club, plus feedback

Studio

$49 / month
Or $490 per year, 2 months free

For when you want a designer eye on your actual room, not just the theme room. You decorate, I review, you adjust with confidence.

Why $49: this is the closest thing to a consultancy inside the community, for less than a third of The Preview consultancy ($167). One wrong sofa costs more than a year of Studio.

  • Everything in Club
  • Your personalized monthly cycle, on 1 room of yours
  • You send your briefing, a photo of your room, your moodboard and your AI preview
  • Before and after follow-through: you send the before, receive the adjustments, execute, send the after, and I adjust again in writing
  • One room per month, so every cycle gets real attention
  • Studio annual only: a gift surprise box with Zaren Studio treats, sent when you pay for the full year up front, and the pieces inside may vary
  • Everything in writing, no lives, no calls

Joining the waitlist costs nothing and starts no subscription. You only pick a plan and pay when the community launches, and the waitlist hears about it first.

How the waitlist works

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Join the list

Fill in the form below with your name, your email and the plan you are eyeing. That is it, you are in.

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Hear it first

When the launch happens, the waitlist gets the news by email before it is announced anywhere else. First in, first decorating.

03

Pick your plan

At launch, choose Club or Studio, monthly or annual, and step inside. Your first room theme will be waiting for you.

Join the waitlist

Leave your name and email here, on this page, and you will receive the launch news first hand, by email, the moment the community opens. No spam, no noise, just the launch and the good decorating stuff.

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Thank you for joining the waitlist for The ZAREN Method Community. When the launch happens, you will receive it first hand, by email, before anyone else. Keep an eye on your inbox.

About you

Which plan are you eyeing?

One more thing, optional

A living room that finally feels finished, an entryway with a pulse, your bedroom. Tell me in a sentence or two.

You will receive the launch news first hand, by email, when the community opens. Joining the waitlist is free and starts no subscription.

Questions, answered

When does the community launch?

The launch date will be announced first to the waitlist, by email. Join the list on this page and you will be the first to know, before the launch is announced anywhere else.

Do I need to join lives or calls?

No. There are no lives and no calls in the community. Everything is in writing: guides, checklists, palettes, templates and feedback. You read and apply everything at your own pace, whenever it suits you.

What do I get every month?

A kit to build your own room for the room theme of the month, not a finished consultancy project, delivered a little per week in four drops named by phase. Week 1, Start: for example, a briefing, a checklist, planning or a diagnosis of that room, and the briefing and the checklist change with every room. Define your style: a short quiz to find your ideal style, before choosing the palette. Week 2, Direction: for example, the color palette and the ready to use moodboards, each with its palette and its own shopping list, and the palette always comes before the moodboard and before any furniture. Week 3, Assembly: for example, the room template and layout ideas for the room of the month, with rug, lighting and circulation tips, all on screen. Week 4, Execution: for example, the final shopping list and the action plan, and the final AI preview is one you create yourself, with the fixed AI Library. Outside the weekly drops, you can consult anytime: the community blog, the fixed AI Library, the extras area and the members area. The Party Kits stay in the community as an archive, and a Party Kit can also come in as the month's extra content. And every month brings 1 extra piece of content, always different: it can be a Party Kit, a style guide, extra moodboards, a post on the community blog or a longer podcast episode, only for members. Rooms come back in new cycles, always with a new angle, a small living room, a living room with kids, a living room for hosting, so the Start phase never repeats the same briefing or the same checklist. And that is the difference from just copying on social media: you get Giovanna's ready to use moodboards and palettes to apply right away in your project, and you also learn to create your own, for your own room.

What is the difference between Club and Studio?

Club ($19 per month, or $190 per year with 2 months free) includes the complete monthly rhythm: the room theme and the four weekly drops. Studio ($49 per month, or $490 per year with 2 months free) includes everything in Club, plus your personalized monthly cycle on one room of yours: you send your briefing, a photo of your room, your moodboard and your AI preview, and Giovanna sends back her written feedback on your room. Then the before and after follow-through: you send the before, receive the adjustments, execute, send the after, and she adjusts again. Studio members who pay for the full year up front also receive a gift surprise box with Zaren Studio treats, and the pieces inside may vary; the gift is annual only, not monthly. It is the closest thing to a consultancy inside the community, for less than a third of The Preview consultancy ($167).

I am an architect or interior designer. Is this for me too?

Yes. The community is for people decorating their own home and for professionals, architects and interior designers, who feel stuck when it is time to design or want to learn how to apply AI the right way. You learn the same method, how to build moodboards and palettes with intention, and how to apply AI as a realistic preview tool in your projects, guided by the method instead of replaced by it.

Does joining the waitlist cost anything?

No. Joining the waitlist is free and it does not start any subscription or charge. You only choose a plan and pay when the community launches, and the waitlist hears about the launch first.

What are the tips on how to apply AI in design?

The AI teaching lives in a fixed AI Library inside the community, always available to consult, not released week by week, with guidance and prompts that are ready to copy and adapt to your room. You apply AI to create a realistic preview of how your room will look before you put anything into practice, so you can test colors, layout and pieces first and do it yourself with far fewer mistakes. That helps especially if you are not ready to hire a design consultancy. The ZAREN Method decides the palette, layers, color and personality. AI does not design Zaren projects, it does not replace the designer eye, and it does not replace your judgment about your own home.

What if I want the room designed for me instead?

Then the consultancy is your place. It is the done for you side of Zaren Studio: a designer creates your project and delivers it by email, in packages from $167. The community and the consultancy use the same ZAREN Method, the difference is who holds the pencil.

Your home, your hands, my method.

Join the waitlist and be the first through the door when The ZAREN Method Community opens. Prefer things done for you, or a piece with personality for the room you are working on? Those doors are open too.

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Giovanna Nazareno Mazaro · Architect and Interior Designer · Founder of Zaren Studio · South Carolina, USA