The guide from Evelyn’s videos
Keep everything. Lose the dated look.
Keep your cabinets, floors and furniture. Make them look like you chose them on purpose. Start tonight with five free changes, then do one room a weekend for $0, $150 or $500.
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BEFOREAFTERIllustration from the guide. Same sofa, table and cabinet – changed: curtains, light, layout, surfaces.
Sound familiar?
It aged while you weren’t looking.
“I’ve stopped noticing until someone visits.”
“I can’t spend $40,000 on a kitchen. And I don’t want builders in my house for months.”
“I bought new cushions and a rug, and it still looks the same.”
“Every room needs something. I don’t know where to start.”
What usually gets tried
New cushions and a rug
Nice things, same room. The light and the layout didn’t change.
Pinterest and TV makeovers
Gut renovations with big budgets. Not a house you’re keeping.
Painting one room
The color fought the cabinets and floors you kept.
The problem isn’t what you own. It’s the order you change things in.
The Refresh Method
Light first. Shopping last.
Most people start by buying things. Evelyn starts with light. Do these four in order and the free steps do most of the work.
- 1LightOne warm bulb color in the whole room and three lamps. Costs little or nothing, and changes how every color in the room looks.
- 2PaintOne safe wall color for the room, picked to go with the wood and floors you’re keeping.
- 3LayoutPull the sofa off the wall so the seats face each other. The room looks bigger and warmer straight away.
- 4StyleRemove, keep, add. The three things that date the room go first. Then what’s left looks deliberate.
Start tonight · about an hour · $0
The 1-Hour Room Glow Up
Page one of the guide. Five free changes in the room you sit in most. Take a photo first – you’ll want it.
- One warm bulb color – in every lamp and fitting
- Furniture off the walls – even a foot helps
- Surfaces cleared – to three things each
- Curtains raised and opened – to let the light in
- Three dated things out – the guide shows you how to spot them
Worked example · the living room playbook
One room. Three budgets.
Every playbook plans the same room three ways, so you can start with what you have this month:
- $0 – rearrange and edit – sofa 12" off the wall, rug under the front legs, lamps in a triangle, surfaces to three things, art down to eye level
- $150 – the glow – all of that, plus two table lamps ($70), warm 2700K bulbs ($20), two linen cushion covers ($40) and the curtain rod raised ($20)
- $500 – the finish – all of that, plus an 8×10 jute rug ($220), linen curtains hung high and wide ($90) and one large framed print ($40)
Four room playbooks
One room every weekend.
Each playbook has a Saturday-and-Sunday plan, layouts for the three most common room shapes, remove-keep-add lists, the three budgets, and one safe color and bulb pick.
Living roomWhere the sofa, the TV and the lamps go.
Main bedroomCalm and hotel-like, with the bed you have.
Guest or spare roomReady for family in one weekend.
Entry and hallwayThe first thing guests see.The Dated Features Fix Library
15 dated features. 3 fixes each.
Find what’s in your house. For each one: style it, disguise it or swap it – with a rough cost, so you only spend where it shows.
Example from the library
Vertical blinds
The Room Scorecard
Not sure where to start? Score it.
Five minutes per room. Ten quick checks, each 0, 1 or 2. The lowest total goes first. Here’s the living room above:
- Light: 1 of 2 – one lamp, mixed bulb colors
- Layout: 0 of 2 – everything against the walls
- Windows: 0 of 2 – heavy drapes, half closed
- Dated features: 0 of 2 – valance, tube TV
- Art: 2 of 2 – the one thing already right
- Total: 8 of 20 – do this room first
From Evelyn
“Keep the cabinets. Keep the floors. Keep the sofa. Make them look like you chose them on purpose.”
I made this for homes like the ones in my videos – lived in, loved and a little tired. Not show homes.
It’s the same thinking I use on the channel, written down room by room: what to keep, what to move, what to take out, and in what order.
Evelyn
What’s in the guide
Plans to follow, not pages to read.
The 1-Hour Room Glow Up
Five free changes for tonight, with a before-and-after photo.
The Refresh Method
The 7 things that make a home look dated, with a photo of each. The four steps in order. The keep list: what to work with instead of replacing.
Four Room Playbooks
Living room, main bedroom, guest room, entry. Each with three looks (classic, warm modern, calm coastal), layout sketches, a weekend plan and $0, $150 and $500 budgets.
The Dated Features Fix Library
15 features, three fixes each, with rough costs.
The Room Scorecard
Score every room out of 20. Do the lowest first, then score it again.
Weekend Project Planner and 10-Minute Reset
Printable plan, shopping list, budget tracker and photo boxes. Then a weekly routine that keeps it fresh.
Plus four bonuses
Guest-Ready This Weekend
Family coming for the holidays? The five rooms guests see, in the order they see them.
Evelyn’s Designer Rules
50 rules on printable cards. “Rugs go under the front legs.” “Three lamps per room.”
The Room Layout Library
30 furniture plans with measurements: long narrow living rooms, fireplace plus TV wall, small square bedrooms, open plan.
The Before & After Lookbook
100 dated rooms refreshed, by room and style. Illustrated, and homes like yours.
Is this for you?
It’s for you if…
- You’ve lived in your home for years and it’s started to look tired
- You want it to look current without ripping anything out
- You like clear steps and exact answers
- You’d rather do one room at a time, at your own pace
It’s not for you if…
- You’re planning a full renovation
- You want someone to come and do it for you
- You only want to fix the kitchen or bathroom – this guide doesn’t cover them
Refresh, Don’t Renovate
Every room you live in. One price.
Everything you get
Today, one payment
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Rises to $47 on November 30.
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The promise
Try it on one room.
Do the Glow Up tonight and one room this weekend. If it doesn’t look better, or you just don’t like the guide, email us within 30 days and you’ll get every cent back. No forms, no questions.
Evelyn Sloane
Questions
Do I need to buy new furniture?
No. Every playbook has a $0 plan that only uses moving, editing and swapping bulbs.
I’m not handy. Can I do this?
Yes. The Glow Up and the $0 plans need no tools. Painting and hanging curtains come in the bigger budgets – do them yourself, or hand that page to a helper.
Is it worth it at my age?
You live in your home every day. The Glow Up costs nothing but an hour, so you’ll know tonight whether this is for you. If it isn’t, you get your money back.
My room is long, narrow or open plan. Will it work?
Each playbook has layouts for the three most common room shapes, and the Room Layout Library adds 30 more plans with measurements.
My style is different from yours.
Each playbook shows the same room in three looks – classic, warm modern and calm coastal. The method works for all of them.
What about my kitchen and bathroom?
They’re not in this guide. It covers the rooms you live in most: living room, bedrooms, guest room, entry and hallway. Kitchens and baths need their own plan.
How do I get it, and is the print big enough?
Straight after checkout you can open it in your account, and we email you the link. It’s a large-print PDF made for reading on a tablet, or print the pages you need.
What if I don’t like it?
Email us within 30 days and we’ll refund every cent. No forms, no questions.
Another question? Email support@evelynsloane.com.
Start with one room tonight.
Do the Glow Up this evening. Finish one room this weekend. If it doesn’t look better, you get every cent back.
Get the guide – $37Instant download · Large print · 30-day money-back guarantee
P.S. The $37 launch price ends on November 30, then it’s $47. If family is coming for the holidays, start with the Guest-Ready bonus: the five rooms they’ll see, in the order they’ll see them.