Detail of a richly colored powder room by Reynolds Interior Design

Journal

Notes on design, craft, and the well-considered home.

Short pieces on how we think about the work, from custom draperies to color, staging, and design that lasts.

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Richly colored powder room with patterned walls
Craft

The Case for Custom Window Treatments

Why made-to-measure is the detail clients remember most.

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Warm transitional living room in layered neutrals
Process

Designing for the Way You Actually Live

The questions we ask before a single fabric is chosen.

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Bright, freshly staged living room
Staging

Preparing a Home for Sale

Editing a home so a buyer falls for it in the first ten seconds.

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Elegant bedroom with a crystal chandelier
Color

A Considered Palette

Building a palette that has a reason for every choice.

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Spa bathroom with a freestanding stone tub
Accessibility

Universal Design, Beautifully Done

Accessible choices that read as generous, never clinical.

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Grand staircase in a traditional entry hall
Restoration

Restoring the Past with Care

A lighter hand for homes with a past worth keeping.

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Craft

The Case for Custom Window Treatments

Ready-made panels rarely fit a real window, and they almost never finish a room the way bespoke draperies do. A made-to-measure treatment is cut to the exact drop, lined for light and quiet, and detailed to echo the architecture around it. It is the difference between covering a window and dressing one.

It is also the most quietly transformative thing we do. The right drapery softens hard light, frames a view, and lends a room a sense of calm that furniture alone cannot. We consider weight, lining, heading, and hardware as carefully as we choose the fabric itself, because those details are what make a treatment read as tailored rather than bought.

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Process

Designing for the Way You Actually Live

A beautiful room that does not suit your routine will not stay beautiful for long. We begin every project by understanding how a family really uses its home before a single finish is chosen.

Good design starts with questions, not fabrics. Where does the morning happen? Who gathers, and where? The answers shape the plan, and the plan is what keeps a home both elegant and easy to live in for years.

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Staging

Preparing a Home for Sale

Staging is editing. We pare a home back to its best self so a buyer can imagine their own life inside it, often through careful downsizing and decluttering rather than buying anything new.

The goal is not to disguise a home but to let its strongest features speak. Light, flow, and proportion sell a house. Our job is to clear the way so a buyer sees them in the first ten seconds.

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Color

A Considered Palette

Color is the easiest thing to get wrong and the most rewarding to get right. We build palettes from the fixed elements of a home outward, so every choice has a reason to be there.

We test color in the actual room, at the actual time of day, against the actual floor and light. A palette chosen on a screen is a guess. A palette chosen on the wall is a decision.

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Accessibility

Universal Design, Beautifully Done

Accessible design and beautiful design are not opposites. Thoughtful, universal choices let a home serve every stage of life without ever looking like a compromise.

Wider passages, considered lighting, and reachable storage make a home work for everyone who visits it. Done well, universal design simply reads as generous, comfortable, and calm.

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Restoration

Restoring the Past with Care

Older homes ask for a lighter hand. Restoration means honoring what makes a house particular while quietly bringing its comfort up to today, a discipline recognized in our ASID award for historic restoration.

We study a home before we change it, keeping the millwork, proportion, and character that give it soul, and reserving the modern interventions for the places that genuinely need them.

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Begin Your Project

Let's design something worth coming home to.

Tell us about your home and your hopes for it. We will follow up to arrange a consultation.