Meet first. Then everything follows.
You don't have to arrive with a fully formed vision — a big part of my job is helping you discover it. The process is collaborative, and I'm comfortable taking the lead when you need me to. Here's how a project moves from the first conversation to a finished, styled room.
Meet
Before anything is drawn, I want to understand how you actually live — your routines, what frustrates you about the current space, and what you want it to feel like when it's done. Most of the important information comes out here.
Establish
We get concrete: scope, priorities, an anticipated investment, timing, and who's responsible for what. Clear boundaries up front are what keep a project calm later.
Define
Measurements, existing plans, circulation, furnishings, infrastructure and — crucially — sequence. A renovation is a chain of dependencies, and the plan is where I map it before anyone lifts a tool.
Design
The spatial concept comes together with materials, fixtures, furnishings, artwork and the custom elements that earn their place. You see and approve the direction before it's ordered.
Design phaseCoordinate
I work with the contractors, fabricators, vendors and installers — tracking decisions, specifications and lead times so the right thing shows up in the right order at the right time.
Install
Final placement, styling and completion, handled to the scope we agreed. This is the part that turns a finished construction site back into a home.
Good design isn't determined by the size of the budget. It's determined by how intelligently the budget is used.
Every project is a negotiation between three things that rarely agree: what you want, what the space requires, and what the budget will actually allow.
My job is to find where investment truly matters, where a compromise won't hurt the design, and where spending more simply isn't necessary — and to be honest with you when those three don't line up. That's not making things look expensive cheaply. It's spending with intention: a $500 charity table and a six-figure furnishing project run on the same instinct, just at different scales.