A room can look calm in a photo and still be awkward to live in.

I'm Leila Haddad, an interior designer in Morocco. The questions that interest me are often small ones: where do you put your bag when you get home? Can two people pass the table without turning sideways? Is there somewhere comfortable to read after dark? A space starts to feel personal when it makes ordinary things easier.

That's the kind of work I want to talk about here. I chose to try Doop because I want more room for the conversation behind a finished picture. A beautiful interior can stop a scroll, but it doesn't explain the budget, the trade-offs or the reason a chair ended up in that particular corner. I'd like my page to help people see those decisions.

My first idea is a series about the room you already have. Before buying anything, what is working? What gets moved out of the way every day? Which corner never gets used? Those observations can make a better brief than a folder full of rooms that belong to som…