Leila Haddad@leilahaddad · October 22, 2026

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 someone else. Inspiration helps, but your routines deserve a place in the plan too.

I'll use the Feed for sketches, questions and explanations, and I'd like to try Watch for short walkthroughs. Some topics are easier to show: the difference between two furniture layouts, how light changes across a room, or why a material looks different next to another colour. I want to explain the limits of an example as well as the idea behind it.

I'm hoping to meet makers, photographers, business owners and other designers here. A small cafe and a home office have different needs, but both benefit when the people involved understand the purpose of the space. I'd enjoy hearing from people who use these rooms every day, not only those who design them.

Building my brand on Doop will mean making my way of thinking visible. I'll keep my profile clear, share useful details and answer questions without turning every reply into a pitch. I would rather someone remember one helpful explanation than see my name under every post.

Over time, I'd like that to lead to design enquiries and collaborations. I'll need to be clear about the services I offer, what a client needs to bring and what happens next. A follower count can't answer those questions for me. That trust has to come from the work and the conversations around it.

For now, here's a question I'd love to start with: what is one thing about your home or workspace that you work around every day? Not the thing you wish looked more impressive—the little frustration you've almost stopped noticing. Tell me about it. Those are often the most interesting places to begin.