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about roomplanners.com

Located in Long Island, NY, Room Planners is a unique home decorating site that combines a room search page with easy-to-achieve room design and color schemes. If you’re a home enthusiast, we’ll help you make sense of your own room design puzzle by paring back too many choices in the market to the right choices for you. Our goal is to help you define your own style preferences, then build professionally designed furniture and color schemes around them.

Room Planners offers a variety of interior design tools that will make a professionally designed room more affordable than ever before. You’ll find plenty of these tools right on this site, including our.
  • Environmental Personality test... this free personality test will help you define your own personal style preference. Each one of our EP Profiles™ is a complete guide to design, fashion, style, color and art.

  • Room search page... one of the most unique room design tools ever developed. You can choose from our variety of search criteria to build a professionally designed color scheme that works with what you already have or what you just bought.

  • Room Cues™ ... a complete recipe for a specific room style you love. Includes paint colors, patterns, furniture recommendations, must-haves and designer secrets. Each of these affordable roadmaps will simplify style like never before.

  • Color Chart reference system... these color charts dramatically narrow your paint choices to the best colors for your style preferences. A professionally-designed color scheme has never been easier.

  • Trend Cards... bring the fascinating world of home fashion and color forecasting right to you. Who doesn’t want to get the inside scoop about what’s new and what’s next?

  • Newsletters, blogs and updates... stay informed on home fashion trends, new products, home décor ideas and news about home

Have fun. This web site is all about you.

about our services

Room Planners focuses on three simple ideas... inspiration, education and information. We don’t particularly like complicated theories and thick textbooks, and all of our services are designed to be easy to use.

inspiration... we’re all about ideas
  • inquire about our home decorating articles; most are available for publication and syndication. We also customize articles for web sites, retail stores and proprietary publications.

education... we make design easy and fun

  • inquire about our consumer presentations and workshops, whether for conferences, home shows or in-store seminars. We can customize a presentation to your needs, or make a suggestion from one of our most popular topics

Information... we think a lot about the future

  • inquire about our trade reports and business consulting services. Room Planners provides research and product information to a variety of manufacturers and retailers in the home furnishing industry. Our clients include such prestigious home furnishing leaders as Crate and Barrel, Closet Maid, Serta, Room and Board, Broyhill, Thomasville, Lane, Universal, The Ashley Companies, Sealy and many others.

about Loreen Epp

I've been fortunate to be able to devote my career to furniture marketing and interior design. As a professional interior designer, I've designed residential homes, retail stores and showrooms. As a former buyer and merchandising executive, I've enjoyed studying international home fashion trends, and developing home furnishing products for some of the best retailers in the market.

After nearly 15 years as furniture merchandising executive with companies such as Staples, Levitz and Seaman's Furniture, I left the corporate world in 2007 to launch my own company.

What inspired me to launch roomplanners.com were the consumers I observed and spoke to in retail furniture stores across the country. They shared what it's like to want to make the right decisions about their homes without always having the time, money, know-how or confidence. Their valuable insight inspired many of the simple, practical and affordable solutions you'll find on this site.

Room Planners taps into my experience in retail, manufacturing and design, along with my love of travel, music and art. I write the blogs and newsletters on this site, and regularly publish columns and articles for leading furniture magazines and online publications. My latest writing venture is the nine EP Profiles™ and over a dozen Room Cues™ found on this site. I also enjoy speaking about home furnishing trends at national industry conferences and consumer seminars in the United States and in Canada.

If you've ever been frustrated with the sometimes confusing, but always fascinating world of interior design, you need to know that buying furniture, choosing paint colors and pulling together a room design aren't always easy things to do. Even professional designers spend a lot of time getting it right. But there are ways to make it easier... and little is more rewarding to home enthusiasts than creating a home they love coming home to.

I hope you'll find the tools on roomplanners.com helpful in making your home all that you want it to be.

contact us

Please direct all inquiries, comments and questions to:

Room Planners Inc.
631.896.6169
www.roomplanners.com
contact@roomplanners.com

advertise with us

If you’re a furniture manufacturer, retailer or design and would like to advertise with us, submit photos for our room search or request a new product review, please contact us for rates and information at 631.896.6169, or at contact@roomplanners.com.

get answers

Looking for the answer to a promotional question you saw on Room Planners marketing materials? Here they are... see if you got them right!


Q: Which 2003 movie still inspires home furnishing consumers?

A: Something's Gotta Give.

Every now and then, the big screen brings us such a memorable set that consumers and designers rave about it for years. Nancy Meyer's 2003 romantic comedy, Something's Gotta Give did just that. The Hampton's beach house where Erica Barry (Diane Keaton) and Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) reminded us that we can fall in love at any age, also reminded us that we can fall in love with a house.

One of the most popular movie interiors ever, the set was written up in Architectural Digest, the Real Estate Journal, the Washington Post, the Dallas Times and the LA Times. Some say the elegant home's appeal was its light-filled, relaxed, comfortable interior. Others say it was the home's casual blend of old-fashioned, classic and modern. While the kitchen had the strongest appeal with its dual islands, soapstone counters, farmhouse sink and commercial appliances, the entire house was pure inspiration with its white palette, glass-paned doors, slipcovers and built-in bookcases.


Q: Which fast-growing lifestyle magazine is changing the way consumers think about their home?

A: Real Simple

Real Simple is building its customer base on a simple premise: life made easier. Focused on getting organized, quick solutions and home efficiency, the magazine's range of topics are sensible, their advice timely and their projects do-able. The magazine's cover and graphics mirror the philosophy. Layouts are simple, clean, infused with light and easy to read.

Real Simple hit news stands in 2000, and despite no big name to back them, like Oprah's O, and Martha Stewart's Living, Real Simple's subscriptions and sales have been steadily climbing ever since. Simplicity and authenticity are growing goals in many consumers' lives. Too much to do and too much stuff in our lives requires a counter balance. We need to find order, peace, quiet and quality time with family and friends. Anything that helps us get things done in less time, keeps us organized, makes shopping easy and information simple is welcome.


Q: After the word furniture, which word do home furnishing shoppers search the most online?

A: Storage

 Searches using the word "storage" over a one month period typically total about 2.5 million, slightly more than the number of searches for living room furniture (686K), dining room furniture (598K), kitchens (526K) and bathrooms (579,951) combined.

It's no wonder. With more affordable products, discounts for bulk buying and a reluctance to let go of what we already have, our homes are filled with more stuff than ever before. We're searching for ways to get control, and soaking up advice wherever we can find it.