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24/08/2026

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As a proud Ta**us, I seek out beauty and sensuality in every moment. As an interior designer with a neuroscientific and wellness approach to design, I look at all the ways that design and decor can impact mood and support the nervous system.

Scent is the only sense with a direct line to the brain’s emotional centre. No filter, no delay, no conscious thought in between. Every other sense passes through a kind of switchboard first, but scent skips straight to the part of the brain that holds memory and feeling. That’s why a smell can undo you in half a second in a way almost nothing else can.

This is AIRY. Alcohol-free, made by a small studio in Japan, built around a single image: a garden in Kanazawa, just after rain. It opens with bergamot, settles into green tea, and finishes on jasmine and gardenia, grounded by a whisper of vanilla, like the air remembering what just happened to it.

I’ve kept it on the console table by my front door and it’s a dreamy dewy freshness that greets you after a long day.

Full edit and everything I’m currently curating for my entryway on shopmy, linked in bio.

The room represents your highest self. That’s not a design philosophy. It’s neuroscience.On the front end, your body say...
14/08/2026

The room represents your highest self.

That’s not a design philosophy. It’s neuroscience.

On the front end, your body says, oh, this is beautiful. On the back end, your brain is processing safety signals it hasn’t yet explained to itself.

Curvature over corners, because your amygdala reads a sharp edge as a mild threat before you’ve consciously registered it’s furniture. Fractal patterns, wood grain, stone veining, aged brass, processed by your brain with far less effort than a uniform surface, because it recognises them from fifty thousand years of evolution. Warm light, soft acoustics, the right kind of contrast, all of it read by your nervous system before your mind has caught up.

None of this is decoration. It’s conversation between the room and the body standing inside it.

I wrote the whole thing this week, the science, where the framework came from, and what I think most people get wrong about creating a space that actually calms the nervous system. It’s called Designing the Exhale.

Comment SUBSTACK and I will send you the letter 💋

Kinda Chic.Had to cancel all my meetings today because of food poisoning. It’s very productive to use the time while han...
12/08/2026

Kinda Chic.

Had to cancel all my meetings today because of food poisoning. It’s very productive to use the time while hanging over a toilet reflecting on how far I’ve come. ✌🏽

Deep Work, Restructuring and No Regrets Last week I shared a substack after 6 weeks of crickets. It’s been intense but t...
09/08/2026

Deep Work, Restructuring and No Regrets

Last week I shared a substack after 6 weeks of crickets. It’s been intense but the pause was necessary and so worth it. If the vision, systems and framework are not robust enough, the failure is never the team.

I wrote about entrepreneurship and parenthood like a relationship between the moon and the tide. I see it as a pattern you can learn and a set of turbulent seas that teach you through experience.

I’ve also just posted today’s letter - yay me. I am trying to stay committed to it now despite the demanding schedule and would love your feedback.

Will do a separate post about today’s letter but I’ve posted that on my stories. If you follow me on Substack, you should expect a new letter every Sunday before 8am. 🤞🏽🤭

Thanks and Happy Sunday 🥂

From De Beauvoir to Broadway, it’s been head down and focus, focus, focus.This post is only a glimpse, a curated collect...
02/08/2026

From De Beauvoir to Broadway, it’s been head down and focus, focus, focus.

This post is only a glimpse, a curated collection of hundreds of images that have filled my phone over the last 6 weeks.

There’s one thing that repetition does, it highlights the flaws, flushes out the crap and builds the muscle.

Those closest to us know what’s been happening behind these squares. It’s been no bu****it commitment, and laser focus on shedding dead weight. Nothing prepares you like practice does. All this to say, f**k me, I can’t wait for Q3. ✌🏽

The Table | Wednesday 8pm BSTLast night, I opened “The Table” for the first time, and honestly I wasn’t sure what would ...
02/07/2026

The Table | Wednesday 8pm BST

Last night, I opened “The Table” for the first time, and honestly I wasn’t sure what would happen.

My DMs and whatsapp chats are full of questions I genuinely want to answer, but they arrive in the middle of a working day and I can never give them the time they deserve. Sooo… The Table fixes that.

One hour, doors open, and I actually get to sit with what you’re asking rather than firing back a rushed line between site visits.

The first one was busy. I managed to whittle the submissions down to top 10 questions, and the range was great. What plants won’t die on you. How to childproof expensive furniture. The colours that open a room instead of white. How to start sourcing vintage. And the one I saved for last, which wasn’t really a design question: how do you cope when your home feels like it will never be finished.

I answered all ten this time. But I think, going forward I might take fewer and go deeper, especially if the questions get more involved, which I rather hope they do.

The answers all live in the Between Rooms chat, so you can go back and read through whenever you like. And The Table opens again next Wednesday at 8pm, for an hour.

Not in the chat yet? Tap the Between Rooms channel at the top of my profile and join me. Depending how this ends up going, we may do a live call or a zoom eventually.

Thanks to all who submitted questions and looking forward to the next one 🙌🏽

Dhil x

The Table | Every Wednesday Night for an Hour Last night I opened The Table for the first time, and honestly I wasn’t su...
02/07/2026

The Table | Every Wednesday Night for an Hour

Last night I opened The Table for the first time, and honestly I wasn’t sure what would happen.

My DMs are full of questions I genuinely want to answer, but they arrive in the middle of a working day and I can never give them the time they deserve. Soooo…”The Table” fixes that.

One hour, doors open, and I actually get to sit with what you’re asking rather than firing back a rushed line between site visits.

The first one was busy. I gathered the top ten questions, and the range of them made me smile. What plants won’t die on you. How to childproof beautiful furniture. The colours that open a room when white feels wrong. How to start curating vintage. And the one I saved for last, which wasn’t really a design question at all: how do you cope when your home feels like it will never be finished.

I managed to answer all ten this time. Going forward I might take fewer and go deeper, especially if the questions get more involved, which I rather hope they do.

The answers all live in the “Between Rooms” chat, so you can go back and read through whenever you like. And The Table opens again next Wednesday at 8pm, for an hour.

Not in the chat yet? Tap the Between Rooms channel at the top of my profile and join me next week.

Dhil x

“Letting nature be the teacher, not just the mood board.”In my latest Substack I unpack the panel I sat on at the Karnde...
19/06/2026

“Letting nature be the teacher, not just the mood board.”

In my latest Substack I unpack the panel I sat on at the Karndean UK & Ireland showroom Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour - Luxury Interiors on Nature-led Design, hosted by .rich, Editor of Livingetc, alongside Manuela Hamilford and Brian Woulfe.
I am definitely finding my groove with Substack and really went into detail with this one. Taking you through the morning, the anecdotes, the takeaways, and what it all meant to me. Plus the science underneath all of it that I am obsessed with.
Full letter on Substack. Link in bio. Have a read, let me know your thoughts. Like, share, restack. It would mean the world to me.

Reflections from “Nature-led Design”Last week I was on a panel at the Design Centre talking about nature-led design and ...
18/06/2026

Reflections from “Nature-led Design”

Last week I was on a panel at the Design Centre talking about nature-led design and the conversation went exactly where I hoped it would. Beyond biophillic design and into the science of why nature actually works on us.

These are my five notes from that discussion. The ones worth taking into your next project, or your next room.
Because nature-led design isn’t a trend or an aesthetic. It’s a conversation with the nervous system. And once you understand that, every material decision looks different.

Swipe for the notes. I would love your thoughts too. Do these resonate with you?

A Dreamy Home for our Dreamy Clients Six weeks out. 🤞🏽The renders are great but they’re more than that to us. What they ...
17/06/2026

A Dreamy Home for our Dreamy Clients

Six weeks out. 🤞🏽

The renders are great but they’re more than that to us. What they don’t show is how long it took to understand this wonderful family, what their mornings actually look like, how they spend their evenings, where the dog will inevitably end up sleeping.

Designing Engelfield has never been about aesthetics alone. It’s been about building something that holds up. Literally, the kids, a dog, the family travelling the states, everyday life — but also emotionally. This is their forever home. The one they’re stepping into as the next version of themselves, and we wanted every material, every finish, every piece of furniture to feel like it already knew that.

Right now we’re in the final stretch. Ordering the last pieces, pulling together the styling, making sure every room earns its place. The family room where they’ll actually curl up. The island they’ll gather around every morning that leads to patio for where they will roast marshmallows on wintery nights. The dining table big enough for Friendsgiving and the mudroom that will do the most.

That’s the part of this job that doesn’t make it into the brief. Getting to know a family well enough to design the backdrop of their life. We don’t take that lightly.

So grateful to our clients for letting us in. 🙏🏽🥰

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