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We want the interior of your home to tell a story. And that story starts to emerge once we’ve had a chance to spend some time with you.

From our first meeting, we immerse ourselves in your lifestyle, your preferences, and the ways you imagine being and feeling in your new space. Our goal is to make your space a chronicle of sorts: of your history, your values, your experiences, and your world.

What should I expect?

Expect the first meeting with us and the initial part of the process to be open-ended, dream-centered, and inquisitive. Expect us to listen, to pay attention, to ask good questions. Expect us to dive right in.

We really want to know what you’re thinking, what you want to feel when you enter the space we’re designing for you, and what specific things you gravitate toward. We want to get a feel for what you love.

Remember: It’s not unusual for the things we talk about at your initial session and the final product to look wildly different. It’s a creative, collaborative process that takes shape as we go.

What documents should I bring to my interiors session?

We don’t need any formal documents, per se. If you have access to your home’s original plans, that can be helpful for us to see.

What inspiration materials should I prepare?

Anything and everything!

Bring us your Pinterest boards, your collections of magazine clippings, your paint samples. All of this will help us envision the sorts of spaces you love and get our heads around how you’d like to feel. Overall aesthetics are what we’re after.

We’d also love to see what we like to call “inspiration pieces.” Do you have an experience from your travels with a statue, building, public space, or a painting that you always go back to in your mind? 

Is there something special from your childhood or family of origin that captures something about you and the way you want to feel? It can be a piece of jewelry from an ancestor, a photo of your childhood room, the letterhead on a love letter from your grandmother to your grandfather. Show us photos or look up places and things that mean something to you. We want to see it all.

That said, please know that we intentionally resist jumping into talking about specific materials too early. If you love a particular wallpaper, tile, or flooring material, definitely include it. But be aware that we won’t commit to using it (or any particular material) at this point in the process because it can be limiting.

What else is important?

More than anything, we want to know your goals and hopes for the space. This is the time for dreaming.

For interior designers, the whole point is to ensure cohesiveness, to make sure the entire project speaks as a whole. To do that, we need the big picture first. We’ll look at what you have, talk to you about what you love, and start the creative process from there.

And what does the rest of the process look like?

Once we’ve had our first meeting, we’ll start to put the puzzle together. 

We might start looking for a key piece in the space first, like a stained glass window. We might get in touch with someone who does incredible light fixtures to see if anything they have might help guide the direction of our design process. We might simply lay out all of your inspiration images in a place where we can see them and sit with them for a time, waiting to see what speaks to us. We will definitely pull up our notes and review them over and over again.

Then we’ll start to get more specific. We’ll start experimenting with color schemes, looking at possible materials, and requesting samples. We’ll put sample boards together and then we’ll sit with those for a while. 

And the process will continue from there. The entire process will be built on what we learned from you early on. We’ll always be circling back to the images and descriptions you gave us during our initial conversation and to the bigger picture, the bigger story, you want to tell.