Yassein Interiors Inc.

Yassein Interiors Inc. Boutique interior decorating for homes that should be as exceptional as the lives lived in them. Deeply personal.

Full-service décor — every furnishing, finish, and detail — for discerning homeowners across the GTA, Durham Region & Northumberland County.

10/23/2026

I was a teenager with a very clear plan, and immigrant parents with a different one. So I went and got a business degree.

I’m glad I did, though it took me years to admit it. Running a studio is a business. Quoting, procurement, managing trades and deliveries is most of the week, and it’s what separates a project that finishes from one that drags on.

But my eye came from somewhere else - fashion, and growing up in an Egyptian family where colour and pattern weren’t feared.

The part that lights me up is still the part I wanted at seventeen. Planning a space, choosing the fabric, finding the piece of art that makes a room make sense.

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10/21/2026

Every finished room I’ve shown you started out something like this.

Deep w**e walls with a tonal stripe, white panelled closets, horizontal blinds, broadloom, and a few pieces of art propped against the baseboard waiting to be dealt with. A room somebody has been living in and quietly not liking for years.

What you’re watching in the middle is the actual work. Samples laid out on the bed, the measurements, the plan in my hand, and me standing there deciding what this room becomes. The carpet is staying, which isn’t a detail — it’s the first fixed point, and everything else has to get along with it. Most projects have one of those. The skill isn’t in having no constraints, it’s in choosing which decisions the constraint gets to make.

People see the reveal and assume the design arrived in one piece. It doesn’t. It arrives after weeks of work and then afternoons like this one, in a room that still looks like someone else’s decision.

This is a primary bedroom in North York. Day one. I’ll show you the other end of it when we’re done.

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10/20/2026

Curtains hung at the top of the window frame make the window look smaller and the ceiling look lower. It’s the most common thing I change, and the one people are most surprised by.

Hang the rod close to the ceiling instead. The eye follows the fabric up and the room gains height it didn’t have. Then run the rod wide enough that the panels stack off the glass when they’re open, so you see window rather than fabric. The window reads bigger and you keep the daylight.

The exception is a very tall room. Above about ten feet, taking the rod all the way up stops helping and starts looking like you’re hiding the wall, so I’ll set it a foot or so above the window instead and let the wall above breathe. The rule is proportion, not height.

And they should reach the floor. Not hover above it, not sit on the sill.

None of this is free. Hanging higher and wider means more fabric, more weight, a longer rod, and on custom panels that adds up. Worth knowing before you fall in love with a fabric, because the yardage is decided by where the rod goes, not by the window.

It’s also one of the two things I always arrange myself rather than handing to a trade. The measurements are where it goes wrong, and nobody notices until the panels are hanging.

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10/19/2026

It was the right call then, and I said so. They weren’t ready, and that was fine. We did everything else and their home looked wonderful.

Twelve years later they called me back for a second phase, and I brought up the floors again. They were still reluctant. I pushed, respectfully, because I’d been carrying that decision around for a decade.

They did it. Now they can’t believe they waited.

I’m telling you this because you should know who you’re hiring. I won’t nod along while you invest heavily and stop short of the thing that would make the real difference. I’ll say it once, kindly, and I’ll say it again if it still matters. That isn’t me being difficult. It’s the reason you choose someone with judgement who cares about your investment, not someone who is just agreeable.

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10/16/2026

Four rooms I’m still pleased with.

She had been thinking about this room for thirty years.Not planning it. Just thinking about it, the way you do with the ...
10/15/2026

She had been thinking about this room for thirty years.

Not planning it. Just thinking about it, the way you do with the thing that never makes the list. We had already done the rooms people see, the ones where guests sit and dinners happen. The laundry room stayed exactly as it was, in stark contrast to the rest of the house, because it was hers and nobody else was going to notice.

That’s the pattern I see constantly in women who have built a full life. The house gets done in order of who else uses it. The rooms that only serve you come last, or never.

So we gave this one everything the other rooms had been given. New floors. New electrical. A new window. Custom cabinetry, a custom window covering, a solid surface counter. It cost close to what a public room costs, and that was the point. The room she’d deferred for three decades didn’t get a discount version of the care.

Art on the wall, a mirror, a proper faucet, a counter wide enough to fold on. Nothing extravagant. Just the things any other room in the house would have been given without question.

If there’s a room in your house you’ve been thinking about for years, that’s the one worth asking about.

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10/14/2026

They do it within about 30 seconds. Sorry about the kitchen. We’ve been meaning to do something. This was fine 15 years ago.

You don’t have to apologize. I’m not keeping score, and dated isn’t a character flaw. It usually means you were busy raising humans, building something, or looking after everyone else first.

Here’s what I’m actually looking at: the space plan - usually arranged in a way that doesn’t serve the room or the people in it. Also is the home cared for? This tells me more about you than any style preference ever will.

A well-kept, hopelessly dated home tells me we’ll work well together. So stop apologizing, and show me the room you avoid.

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10/13/2026

A house full of people is the most honest assessment a home ever gets.

Everyday life is forgiving. You know where the keys go, which lamp to switch on, which chair is the comfortable one. Guests know none of that. They walk in, look for somewhere to set things down, look for somewhere to sit, and move wherever the room lets them. What works, works for everyone, but what doesn’t will show up in the first five minutes.

After almost twenty-five years in other people’s homes, I hear the same handful of things when a holiday felt harder than it should have. Coats on the bed. Everyone standing in the kitchen for three hours while the living room sat empty. Dining chairs carried into the living room. Someone switching on the overhead light at dusk and the whole room going flat.

None of that is a failure. It’s information, and it fades fast. By December you’ll remember the weekend felt crowded, but not why.

So take ten minutes this week and write down what you noticed: where people stood, where they couldn’t sit, what you apologised for, what you wished you’d had. That list is the most useful design brief you’ll ever write, because it comes from how your home is actually lived in rather than how it looks in a photograph.

It’s also exactly what I ask about in a first conversation.

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The calm before everyone arrives is its own kind of good. Happy Thanksgiving.
10/09/2026

The calm before everyone arrives is its own kind of good. Happy Thanksgiving.

10/08/2026

The art in most homes was chosen to fill a wall. You can tell, because it isn’t offensive and it isn’t interesting.

That’s what mass-produced prints are built to be. They’re designed to work in any room, which means they were never chosen for yours. Fill a house with decisions made to avoid being wrong and you end up with somewhere pleasant and oddly impersonal.

Original work behaves differently. There’s a hand in it. It has a surface, a scale someone decided on, and often a story about where you found it. Usually the first thing a guest asks about is the art, not the sofa.

But the order matters more than people expect. I don’t source art until the space is planned, because until the furniture is laid out you don’t know which walls are actually left, where the eye lands when you walk in, or what size a piece needs to be. Art bought before that is a guess, and a guess is how people end up with something too small, hung too high, over a sofa it was never measured for.

Plan the room. Then find the piece you can’t stop thinking about. That’s not an indulgence, it’s the part you’ll still care about in twenty years.

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