Collected, Layered, and a Little Moody

Bold rooms, layered spaces, and a first floor that works as hard as the family who lives there.

When our clients — two driven business owners with a full, busy life and young kids in tow — found their dream home in a beautiful Cleveland-area community, the bones were already there. What they needed was someone to help them make it their own. We focused our design on the first floor, concentrating efforts on the spaces that would shape daily life most: a redesigned mudroom and laundry room, a brand-new sitting room and office, dining room consulting, and a whole-first-floor paint color consultation to tie it all together.

To achieve that collected-over-time feeling, we layered new furniture and carefully sourced vintage finds alongside pieces the clients already owned and loved — giving the home a depth and personality that only comes from things that actually mean something. Nowhere is this more evident than the sitting room. Dark, enveloping, and rich with texture — ceiling wallpaper, velvet drapery, a burl wood table, a richly patterned rug, and mixed metal finishes — it's a jewel box of a space. A metallic wallcovering at the stair landing frames the clients' incredible plant collection on the way up, while their remarkable artwork commands attention throughout every room.

The result is a home that works as hard as they do and finally feels like them — layered, collected, and completely their own. This is what residential interior design in Cleveland looks like at its best: not an imposition of style, but a collaborative process of uncovering exactly who you are and building something beautiful around it.