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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.

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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10/07/2026

Nobody photographs this part.

There’s plastic still on the ottoman. There’s a ladder against the window and someone on it hanging drapery. There are tool cases sitting on carpet tiles recently laid, and I’m carrying cushions across the room one at a time because that’s genuinely how it goes.

Floors were laid, painting finished, wallpaper installed, wall sconces wired. It was ordered months ago, delivered, inspected, and stored until today, so it could all land at once instead of trickling in while they lived around boxes.

There’s a second round coming, because once they could see the room they wanted more of it. Original art, more seating, accessories, another run of carpet tile. That’s the happiest reason for a project to grow: not because something was missed, but because the thing works and you want to go further with it.

By tonight the plastic is gone, the ladder is gone, I’m gone. Then we do it once more.

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10/06/2026

There’s a version of this where we spend our Saturdays in showrooms, texting each other photos of sofas. People think that’s the fun part. It isn’t. It’s how projects take two years and end up looking like a collection of things rather than a home.

Here’s what I do instead. We start with research and a launch meeting, where I ask a lot of questions about how you actually live. Then I go away. I plan the space, source every piece, choose the fabrics and the art, and build it all out so I can see the room before you do.

Then I show you the whole thing at once.

One of my clients said something I think about often: “I didn’t know what I needed until you gave it to me.” That’s the job. You can tell me what you have and what you hate. Almost nobody can describe what they need. That’s what you’re hiring me for.

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10/05/2026

Dark walls get blamed for making a room feel small. What actually makes a room feel small is a dark wall with nothing to balance it.

This one is navy, nearly black, and it works because everything else is pulling against it. Gold drapery takes the window right to the ceiling and lets the light in rather than framing it with more dark. The gold pillow repeats that so the drapery doesn’t read as an accident. The rug is pale and heavily textured, which lifts the floor.

The chairs are custom swivel recliners. People expect a recliner to be the piece you hide, the one that doesn’t match anything. Made properly, in the right fabric and the right scale, it’s just a very comfortable chair. This is a reading room. Comfort was the entire brief, and nothing here is apologising for it.

Choosing a dark colour is the easy part. What makes it work is deciding what’s going to carry the light back.

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The small things you see first thing in the morning are worth choosing carefully.
10/02/2026

The small things you see first thing in the morning are worth choosing carefully.

10/01/2026

Most decorating looks good on day one. The real test comes about a decade later.

Kingsway Timeless is a second phase. The first was twelve years ago, and when the owners were ready to carry on, we weren’t starting over. The palette still worked. The bones of the earlier decisions still held.

Almost nothing was thrown out. The bar cabinet stayed. So did the dining table and chairs, with one antique chair recovered rather than replaced. The living room side chairs stayed. What’s new is the floors throughout, the sectional and swivel chair, the side tables and lamps, a reading chair and ottoman, and the kitchen drapery and stools.

That’s what timeless buys you. When you’re ready to carry on, you’re adding to something rather than starting over. Trend-led rooms can’t do that. They have to be replaced, which is the most expensive way to decorate.

Being asked back to a home I worked on a dozen years ago is the part of this job I’m proudest of.

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10 Hanover Court
Whitby, ON
L1N7J2

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Wednesday 9:30am - 4:30pm
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