Ireland’s #1 residential spatial designer, modernising outdated homes by making better use of your space to deliver the BEST design option for YOU with the Memory Making Method™
Cobelis Design Studio is owned and run by BA Interior Designer Eleanor Clarke based in Dublin, Ireland. As a spatial designer, Eleanor concentrates on the interior space planning of your home, how it will work best for you and how to make better use of your space to transform the way you live. Focusing on modernising outdated homes, reconfiguring within your existing footprint and/or extending, Eleanor utilises every bit of your space to design a flexible and adaptable home catering for your daily needs and allowing you to have options to ensure that this design is the BEST design option for you and your family.

BA interior designer Eleanor focuses on space planning, utilising every bit of your space to transform your outdated home into the gem it can be without the additional cost of an extension.
Connection is one of the biggest elements that houses in need of modernisation lack. They are usually made up of several disproportionate sized rooms, each meant for it’s own defining function, isolated from each other. The problem is this layout doesn’t suit how we want to live today. We want our homes to be social, multi functional spaces that allow us to communicate and connect better with the people around us. By correcting the four space planning design fundamentals, flow, functionality, circulation and connection, Eleanor unlocks the full potential of your outdated home, making the best use of your space to delivery the BEST design option.

“I know making permanent and expensive decisions is intensely overwhelming, this is because you are simply afraid to get it wrong. With my Memory Making Method™ I guide you through the design process in a structural format to eliminate your fear and uncertainty on the decisions you will be making.” – Eleanor Clarke

As an architects skill set includes the design of the exterior of your home and an interior designers comprises of specifications on finishes and furnishes, Eleanor’s design expertise as a spatial designer lays in between. Designing and drawing new conceptual layouts that are functional and practical, reconfiguring within your existing space, Eleanor resolves to design new and better space planning solutions for your home producing floorplans, elevations and 3D visuals, all from the internal perspective of your home and from the perspective of how YOU will use it.
Connecting with her clients, Eleanor uses her unique approach to the design process the Memory Making Method™ building their confidence to gain absolute clarity and understanding of their design that no opportunity has been missed, to create flexible and adaptable homes giving a lifetime of joy and a place to make lasting memories.
The #1 cause of budget over runs when renovating your home is when homeowners rush into the design phase before completing their research and analysis. This research benefits both the homeowner and designer as each get a better understanding of eachother before decisions have to made. When this upfront research is not completed, communication is lost and assumptions are made, resulting in a misdiagnosis and resulting in the most costly long term mistake people can make, having to settle for the wrong design. This reconfiguration outlines the danger of how you can be misdiagnosed the wrong design when you do not understand how your layout will work for you.
By correcting the flow, functionality and circulation of your older home, Eleanor unlocks it’s full potential to make the best use of your space delivering the BEST design option.
We have had clients all over Ireland who went from feeling anxious and overwhelmed when planning the renovation of their older home to constructing their design project with complete confidence and conviction.
Have you just bought an older home in need of modernisation but you don’t know where to start? Start Here. Take the first step, request a free ‘Clarity Call’, and you will learn how to turn your outdated home into the gem it can be.