the five senses audit — a room you already live in

hotel guests spend maybe three nights in a room we design. you spend years in yours. yet most people have never studied their own space the way a hospitality designer studies a lobby — with intention, with all five senses, asking one question over and over: how does this room make a person feel?

the five senses audit is a guided self-assessment. you receive a digital workbook — 18 pages, designed in the w+n house style (lowercase, generous margins, room to think). the workbook walks you through your space — living room, bedroom, or whichever room matters most — one sense at a time.

sight: where does your eye land first when you enter? what does it avoid?
sound: what do you hear right now? what would you rather hear?
scent: every room has a smell. you've just stopped noticing yours.
touch: what surfaces do you touch every day? are they the right ones?
silence: where do you sit when you need to be still? is it the best seat in the room?

you fill it out over a weekend. no rush. no design vocabulary required. at the end, you'll have identified what your room is doing well and what it's failing to do — and you'll have a one-page "sensory brief" you can hand to a designer, a partner, or keep for yourself.

this is how every w+n hotel project begins — not with furniture selections or floor plans, but with a study of how the space should feel. the workbook is that first step, adapted for a room that's already yours.