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Into the Nest

Transform Your Home with Biophilic Design

There is a room in your home you quietly avoid

You walk past it. You use it when you have to. Something about it never settles, and you have never quite been able to say what.

Ten modules on reading your rooms, so the one you avoid becomes the one you choose.

Founding price for the first 30 buyers. List price £249. 30 days, no conditions.

It probably sounds like this

You have saved hundreds of images, and your home still does not feel right.
Other people seem to just know how to make a home lovely, so you assume you lack the taste or the budget.
You keep scrolling and buying the odd thing. When it arrives, it is slightly disappointing, again.

The trouble is where you have been looking

We call it the Pinterest reflex: the belief that the answer to your home is in other people's pictures.

Every saved image trains you to look outward. But the information you need is not online.

It is how you live, where you actually sit, and what calms you at the end of the day. That only exists inside your own four walls.

You already know what your home needs; biophilic design is how you learn to listen to it.

A tall monstera against a pale wall

What changes

A home that feels right is designed from who you are and how nature works on you, not from pictures of other people's houses.

Here is the part most people do not expect: most of what makes a home feel right costs very little.

Daylight you already have but block. A chair facing the wall instead of the window. One plant in the place you pause each morning.

The course starts with changes like these: opening a blind, moving a chair near a window, buying one plant.

Design from the inside out. Your home is your sanctuary; this is how you make it feel like one.

What the course is

Ten modules, 33 video lessons, and a workbook for every module. Nearly three hours of video in all.

Lifetime access, so you work at the pace your home and your week allow.

Most modules end with one small change to make that week. By the last module you have a plan for every room, written by you, for the way you live.

William in a plant-filled studio, from the course

Read the room

Make one small change

Finish with a plan for every room

Module 1 workbook, the room-by-room assessment Module 1 workbook, priority spaces Module 1 workbook cover page

The workbooks are where the room changes. You walk through your home and stand still in each room.

You write down what you see, hear and feel underfoot. Your gut reaction counts as much as anything you can measure.

See all ten modules
  • Module 1. Introduction to Biophilic Design. What it is, why it matters at home, and a room-by-room audit of how your home feels now.
  • Module 2. The Fundamental Principles of Biophilic Design. Learn to read any room, from prospect and refuge onwards, and see which patterns are strongest in your home.
  • Module 3. Incorporating Natural Elements. Plants, water, natural materials and sunlight, and a practical plan for your priority rooms.
  • Module 4. Harnessing the Power of Natural Light. An audit of the daylight you have, and a lighting plan that balances it with the lamps you use.
  • Module 5. Bringing the Outdoors In: Plants and Greenery. Plants that suit your rooms and your routine, where to place them, and a plant project of your own.
  • Module 6. Natural Materials and Textures in Interior Design. Wood, stone and natural fibres, how to layer them, and a materials plan for your home.
  • Module 7. Biophilic Colour Palettes and Patterns. How colour affects mood, a palette drawn from colours found in nature, and a plan for one room.
  • Module 8. Creating Spaces for Relaxation and Restoration. Find the best place in your home for rest, and design it around retreat and the senses.
  • Module 9. Biophilic Design on a Budget. Seven affordable strategies, every change sorted by cost, and a plan with a realistic budget.
  • Module 10. Putting It All Together: Designing Your Biophilic Home. A whole-home assessment and a room-by-room plan: this week, this month, and longer term.

Try Module 1 free

Start with the room you avoid. Module 1 gives you the video lessons and the full workbook, including the room-by-room audit.

All it asks for is your email address, nothing else.

Two pink chairs and a small table at dusk, lit by one lamp

What students said

Written by students who took the course on Udemy. Quoted as they wrote them. Shortened where marked.

After completing the introduction I can't wait to continue. The content in this course is amazing and the resources available are above and beyond. Exceptional value for money.

Merredith H., January 2025

I really enjoyed this course. It was very informative and easy to understand. It really helped me understand biophilic design and how to create it in my spaces.

Desiree E., April 2025

Introducing the concepts in an orderly manner and doing so, from the point of view of someone that not only knows about the subject matter, but has worked with it. Very happy so far.

Hans H., December 2025 (shortened)

Super insightful, highly exceeded my expectations. I wish there would be more of William's courses, to deepen our knowledge.

Vivien K., February 2025 (shortened)

Included in the £149

A Room Read from William, for the first 30 buyers. Send one photo of the room you avoid and three lines about it.

Within 14 days William replies with a short voice note: what he sees, and what he would try first.

Send it any time in your first 90 days.

The Renter's Sheet. What is usually yours to change, what to ask about first, and what moves with you.

The Pet-Safe Plant Sheet. Some of the easiest houseplants are poisonous to cats and dogs.

This sheet gives you twenty listed as non-toxic to both, sorted by the light you have.

The founding price

£149, founding price, for the first 30 buyers. The list price is £249.

Or pay in two parts: £74.50 today and £74.50 in 14 days. The total is still £149.

Why founding: these are the first thirty buyers through the new home of the course, and the price says thank you for coming early.

Enrol for £149

Prices include VAT. Charged in pounds. This founding offer is for buyers who live in the UK.

The guarantee

30DAYS

30 days, no conditions. If the course is not for you, email within 30 days of buying and you get your money back.

No questions about how far you got.

William Ringsdorf

About William

William Ringsdorf designed homes for over thirty years, more than 750 of them, for people who wanted their rooms to suit the way they live.

He wrote this course for homeowners.

He also writes Heartsease, a weekly letter on how rooms affect the people in them.

Questions

How long does it take?

There are ten modules and 33 video lessons, with a workbook for each. You work through one module and its workbook at a time.

You keep access for life, so there is no deadline.

Do I need a budget to benefit?

No. Pinterest is free, and so is most of what this course asks you to do: notice, move, open, take away.

Module 9 sorts every change by cost, and the final plan starts with quick wins you can make this week for little or nothing.

What if I never finish courses?

Then start with Module 1 and stop there if you like; the audit alone is a full exercise in reading your home.

Most modules end with one small change, so the room improves as you go, not only at the end.

Is this for renters?

Yes, and the included Renter's Sheet shows what to ask about first.

Light, plants, materials, textiles and where the furniture sits are usually yours to change, and most of it moves with you.

Bigger items, like a skylight, sit in the longer-term part of your plan, and you can leave them out.

What happens after I pay?

The thank-you page links straight to the course, and an access email with the same link follows.

Everything is there at once: all ten modules, all the workbooks and both sheets. The course page also tells you how to send your room for your Room Read.

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A weekly letter from thirty years of designing homes that suit the people in them
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