Cobelis Design Studio

23/10/2026

🏡 Years of designing kitchens taught me why you need to look at the whole home before committing to one room.

📸 This is me with my then boss during my kitchen design days, pregnant with my third child, Ellis.

By then, I had studied interior design, worked in an architectural practice and helped many homeowners plan their kitchens.

And I kept noticing the same problem.

People would arrive with renovation or extension plans, excited to choose their kitchen. But as we worked through the layout, they would say:

“I thought we’d have more space.”
“I didn’t realise that doorway would affect the kitchen.”
“Where will we all sit?”

💡 I could see how decisions beyond the kitchen were limiting what we could achieve within it.

A doorway breaking up valuable worktop space. A route through the room leaving little space for seating. An adjoining room sitting unused while the kitchen felt cramped.

Those experiences shaped the work I do today.

🔍 I founded Cobelis Design Studio to help homeowners understand what their home actually needs before they commit to expensive, permanent decisions.

As a Spatial Interior Designer, I bring that experience to the whole house—understanding how you live, what frustrates you and how the layout could better support your family.

Perhaps that means reconfiguring your existing space. Perhaps you need an extension. Sometimes, a thoughtful combination of both gives you the best result.

🌿 That’s the thinking behind Why Extend When You Can Amend®.

And it’s why my Memory Making Method™ begins with a Reconfiguration Review™: establishing the problems, priorities and possibilities before moving into design.

💚 From those kitchen showroom days to running my own studio, the question that interests me has stayed the same:

How can this home work better for the people living in it?

📅 Planning a renovation or extension? Book a Clarity Call to learn how I can help you understand what your home really needs before you commit to making changes.

Book through the link in my bio Eleanor Clarke | Ireland's #1 Spatial Interior Designer

22/10/2026

“I may not save people’s lives, but I do change people’s lives.”

I said this during a conversation with clients recently, when they asked how I came to do what I do.

And it stayed with me.

Because the way your home works affects your everyday life.

🏡 Whether you can chat while making dinner. Whether visitors have somewhere comfortable to sit. Whether there’s a place for the coats and schoolbags, or a quiet room when you need some time to yourself.

During our conversation, my clients made a lovely observation:
What a young family needs from their home is different from what they need at this stage of their lives.

And that’s exactly why I spend time understanding people before designing their space.

For one family, it might mean keeping cooking, homework and play connected.

For another, it might mean creating a welcoming place where grown-up children can sit, chat and stay a little longer.

Two identical houses can need very different layouts because of the people living in them.

When I visit, homeowners often apologise for the mess. But I’m already looking at how they use the space, what frustrates them and what would make daily life easier.

Sometimes they have been working around those frustrations for so long, they have stopped questioning them.

💚 Helping people see what’s possible and creating a home that supports how they want to live, is why I love this work.

What’s one thing you wish your home made easier?

17/10/2026

🏈 I Came for the Kelces. I Stayed for the Game.

This was us at the Steelers vs Vikings game in Dublin last year and yes, I’ll happily admit my interest in the NFL started with a podcast and a little Taylor Swift! 😂

I started listening to Travis and Jason Kelce, became curious about the game, and gradually found myself interested in far more than who was watching from the stands.

 🏟️ Swipe to see my tour of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ stadium while I was in Tampa in 2025! What started with a podcast had clearly become an interest of my own! 😂  

The formations. The strategy. How players work together and teams adapt.

💡 I can see why it appeals to me. I love understanding how all the parts work together and it’s the same curiosity I bring to your home.

You might have plenty of rooms, but if their layout and connections don’t support family life, adding more space may leave the original problems unresolved.

Before deciding what to change, I want to understand why things aren’t working. Is it circulation? Privacy? Rooms trying to do too many jobs, while others are barely used?

Through my Memory Making Method™, we establish your needs and priorities first. Then I use spatial design to explore how your whole home could work better—reconfiguring first and extending where needed.

🏡 Each change needs a purpose. Understanding what it solves helps you feel confident you’re investing in the right changes for your family.

So yes, the NFL has become a regular part of my Sundays. I enjoy studying layouts even when I’m off duty! 😂

Planning a renovation and worried about spending your money on changes that won’t solve the problems?

Book a Clarity Call through the link in my bio Eleanor Clarke | Ireland's #1 Spatial Interior Designer

Let’s discuss what your home needs before you commit.

16/10/2026

🏡 “Why Extend When You Can Amend®?” What does it actually mean?

Before you invest in making your home bigger, understand how the space you already have could work better.

Perhaps your kitchen feels cramped, yet your dining room is rarely used. You have plenty of rooms, but they feel disconnected. Or you are considering an extension because you can’t see how to fit everything your family needs into the current layout.

💡 To “amend” means rethinking that existing space, changing the layout, improving how rooms connect and making better use of areas that aren’t working for you.

That’s where I start.

I’m Eleanor, founder of Cobelis Design Studio and I specialise in spatial design.

Through my Memory Making Method™, I look at your home as a whole: how you use it, what frustrates you and how you want to live, now and in the years ahead.

Sometimes the answer is reconfiguration, sometimes an extension, and sometimes a thoughtful combination of both.

Exploring your existing home first helps establish what extra space you actually need and what it should achieve.

Because when you are making a significant investment in your home, your concern isn’t simply how much it will cost. It’s whether you’ll spend that money and still find the same problems haven’t been solved.

🔍 I help you spend your money wisely by establishing what your home actually needs before you commit to design and construction.

That’s the thinking behind Why Extend When You Can Amend®: reconfigure first, extend if needed and invest in changes that make your home work better for you.

💬 Planning a renovation and thinking, “I don’t want to get it wrong”? Click the link in my bio Eleanor Clarke | Ireland's #1 Spatial Interior Designer to arrange a clarity call.

Let's have a chat!

15/10/2026

14/10/2026

“I don’t want to spend all that money and still get it wrong.”

When you are planning a renovation, that fear can sit behind every decision.

🛑What if you build the extension, but the kitchen still doesn’t flow?
🛑What if you have more space, but nowhere for the laundry, schoolbags or coats?
🛑What if it looks beautiful, but everyday family life is still difficult?

🪙You want to spend wisely and feel confident that the changes will solve the problems you are living with.

🩺That’s why I don’t start with design. I start with diagnosis.

🌟I specialise in spatial design, exploring how your existing home could work better before adding an extension where needed.

💡Through my Memory Making Method™, I consider how your family lives now and how your needs will change, so we establish what needs to change and why before you commit to construction.

My Reconfiguration Review™ is the first step towards that clarity.

Planning to renovate but worried about getting it wrong? Book a Clarity Call through the link Eleanor Clarke | Ireland's #1 Spatial Interior Designer

Why Extend When You Can Amend®

12/10/2026

Starting a business isn’t always glamorous. My version had a few more children in the picture! ❤️

I’m preparing a talk for the Interior Design, Business and Marketing students at Ballsbridge College called “Designing a Career That Didn’t Already Exist.”

Looking at the early photos of Amazon and Apple alongside my own beginnings has reminded me of the belief behind Eleanor Clarke | Ireland's #1 Spatial Interior Designer : seeing a problem and recognising an opportunity to help solve it.

I saw homeowners ready to invest significantly in renovating their homes, but worried about getting it wrong.

Their concern wasn’t simply, “What will it cost?”

It was, “What if we spend all this money and our home still doesn’t work for us?”

A beautiful renovation can still leave the everyday problems unresolved if those problems haven’t been properly understood.

That’s why I chose to specialise in spatial design and developed my Memory Making Method™.

I start by understanding how you live, what isn’t working and why. Then we establish what your home actually needs—whether that means reconfiguring, extending or thoughtfully combining both.

It gives the design a clear purpose, so your investment is directed towards changes that make a meaningful difference to your life.

Building that business happened around my own family life: evenings working on plans, a laptop beside me and children close by.

It wasn’t glamorous. But I believed in the value of helping people make the right decisions before making expensive, permanent changes.

That’s the story I’ll be sharing with the students.

And if you’re preparing to renovate and thinking, “We have the budget, but we need to know we’re doing the right thing,” that’s exactly where my work begins..

04/10/2026

Ready for day 2!design.studio extend.renovate.live

28/09/2026

Planning to spend €100k–€500k renovating or extending your home?

Before you approve plans, remove walls or decide how large an extension should be, there are seven important decisions you need to get right.

Because the most expensive renovation mistake isn’t simply spending too much.

It’s investing significantly in the wrong changes and still ending up with a home that doesn’t work for your family.

I created The 7 Decisions to Get Right Before You Start Designing to help you understand:

• What is actually not working
• Why it isn’t working
• How you need to live
• Where to invest first
• Whether to reconfigure, extend—or thoughtfully combine both

Download your free copy through the link in my bio Eleanor Clarke | Ireland's #1 Spatial Interior Designer

Make the right changes before you renovate.

14/07/2026

Have you reached the point where you feel completely stuck?

You know your home isn't working anymore.

Every day you notice the same frustrations. The kitchen feels too small. The layout doesn't flow. There's never enough storage. Family life feels harder than it should.

You know something has to change.

But instead of moving forward, you feel... paralysed.

Not because you don't want to renovate.

Because you're terrified of making the wrong decision.

🛑 What if we spend all this money and it still doesn't work?
🛑 What if we extend when we didn't need to?
🛑 What if we regret the layout?
🛑 What if there's a better solution that we just can't see?

✋️ So you wait.

You save more Pinterest images.
You ask family and friends for advice.
You get another opinion.

😟 But instead of gaining confidence, you become even more overwhelmed.

Here's what I've learned after working with hundreds of homeowners:

People rarely feel stuck because they don't have enough ideas.

🤯 They feel stuck because they don't have enough clarity.

That's why I don't start with design.

I start by diagnosing how your home works for the way you live.

Once you understand the problem, the fear starts to disappear, the overwhelm begins to lift and you can finally move forward with confidence.

✨ If this sounds like you, book a free Clarity Call through the link in my bio Eleanor Clarke | Ireland's #1 Spatial Interior Designer. Let's uncover what's really holding your home back.

Why Extend When You Can Amend®️