Designing spaces with a personal touch.
Design, lighting control and home networks for the house you live in now or the one you are building. Planned together, so it looks right, works right and stays simple.
Tell us about your houseSee how we workOne team for the room and what runs it.
Most of our work is in existing homes: a few rooms that need a direction, Wi-Fi that finally reaches the whole house, lighting that is easier to live with. We also join new construction early, while walls are open and changes are cheap. Either way, design, electrical and low-voltage are planned as one.
Existing homes
A few rooms, or the whole house
Advice on a single room through a whole-home plan. We work around what is already there, reuse what still works, and avoid opening walls unless it is worth it.
Renovation
While the walls are open
The best moment to fix Wi-Fi, move a switch or add a floor outlet. We verify what is really in the walls and hand the trades a clear plan before they close them.
New construction
From the drawings forward
We join at design or pre-wire, place devices around the furniture plan, and make sure the house is wired for how it will be lived in, not just to code.
Design direction
A point of view for period and traditional architecture, from millwork and trim proportion to layered light and furniture planning.
Design selections
Lighting, tile, hardware and furnishings chosen room by room and checked for scale, fit and installation requirements before anything is ordered.
Layout & coordination
Furniture and systems placed at true scale on the architect's plans, so electrical, audio-video and lighting start from how each room will be used.
Lutron RadioRA 3
Design, programming and commissioning by a certified RadioRA 3 installer: switch strategy, keypads, tunable-white lighting, wireless coverage and scenes.
Whole-home Wi-Fi & cameras
Wi-Fi that reaches every room, built on UniFi: access-point placement from the floor plan, rack and switch architecture, cabling specifications for the trades, and camera coverage with local recording.
AV & TV planning
Screen sizes chosen from real seating distances, sightlines and speaker locations, with pre-wire specifications so the audio-video contractor starts from a plan.
Alarm system consultation
Too many alarm systems are bought off a shelf before anyone asks how they will work in the house or what they cost every month. We lay the options side by side, with the running costs and the limits, and you choose.
Want to be hands-on? We bring you in. That can mean a fully wired system we plan with you, or advice on exactly what to buy if you would rather install a do-it-yourself kit once you know what it costs to run.
| What to expect | Do-it-yourself kit | Wired system |
|---|---|---|
| Up front | Lower. Buy the kit and add sensors as you go. | Higher. Cable and a panel, best done while walls are open. |
| Every month | Usually a subscription for monitoring and video history. | Monitoring is optional, and you pick the provider. |
| Installation | You, in an afternoon. | Planned with the electrician, with you as involved as you like. |
| Limits | Batteries to change, and it leans on Wi-Fi and the maker's cloud. | Harder to add to once the walls are closed. |
We are not afraid to say no.
Start with what you have
Before we recommend anything new, we look at what you already own. If it can be reused, it stays.
Smart is not always simple
We have lived with smart homes for years. We use it where it earns its place, and leave it out where a good ordinary switch is better.
Buy it yourself
When something is cheaper to buy on your own, we will tell you where to get it instead of adding a markup.
Decide on paper, verify in the walls, document at the end.
Drawings show what a house was meant to be. The house itself is the truth, and the two rarely match exactly. Our process starts from what is really there: field measurements, photographs, and what you already know about your own home. You enter what you know, we verify it on site, and every decision is checked against it.
We get to know you before we start, and we show you what we heard.
Too often the expert does not listen, and everyone ends up frustrated. So discovery comes first: how you live, what you own, what you love in your look book, what has annoyed you in past projects, and how involved you want to be.
We write that up as a client profile and hand it back to you. You correct it until it is right. No design or technology work starts until you agree it sounds like you, and every recommendation after that is checked against it.
- Mornings happen in the kitchen. Lighting there matters most.That's right
- Keep the sofa and both TVs. Replace nothing that works.That's right
- Warm, traditional, nothing that looks like a showroom.Not quite
- One app at most. Switches a guest can use.That's right
- Wants to be hands-on with the alarm and the Wi-Fi.That's right
sample profile
Discover
We start with what you already have: the furniture you love, the TVs that still work, the fixtures worth keeping. You enter what you know: rooms, rough sizes, what you own, photos, using quick phone tools that make it a short walk, not a chore. We walk the house to confirm it, write down how each room is used, begin your look book together, and write your client profile. Work starts once you agree the profile sounds like you.
Plan on the real plan
The drawings go into our planner as a starting point, then are corrected with field measurements and photographs. Furniture, screens, speakers and fixtures are placed on them, so layout and systems are settled together.
Furniture & Layout PlannerSelect
Fixtures, tile and finishes are reviewed room by room, side by side, beside your look book. Each one carries a scale check, a fit-to-box check and our honest opinion.
Design Selection ToolSpecify
Decisions become plain handoffs for the electrician, the AV contractor and the trades: box locations, device types, cable runs and one price list as the source of truth.
AV & TV PlannerVerify
We measure and photograph the rooms and record what is actually in each box, because built conditions rarely match the drawings. Your entries are confirmed against what we find. Proposals are checked against the plan before anything is bought.
Lighting & Systems MappingInstall & document
Lutron and UniFi are configured, commissioned and labeled. You receive an as-built record, so the system can be serviced and can grow.
How we recommend technology
- We start with how you live, not with equipment.Who uses the room, when, and what gets in the way today. The goal is written down before a product is named.
- We recommend the simplest system that meets it.Smart controls go where they earn their place. Everywhere else, a good ordinary switch is the better answer.
- We tell you what to leave out.Every recommendation comes with its cost, its trade-offs and the alternative we considered.
- We plan it so it can be serviced.Clear specifications for the trades up front, and an as-built record at the end, so the system keeps working and can grow.
Your project gets tools built for it, and you keep them.
Buying one piece of software and bending every house to fit it is the old way of working. Tools can now be built quickly enough that each project gets its own, shaped around your rooms, your belongings and your decisions.
The old way
One off-the-shelf program for every client. It tracks proposals, purchase orders and invoices, and your house is entered to suit the software. When the job ends, so does your access.
How we work
The tool is built around your job. It answers the questions that usually come up too late, on site: does it fit, will it reach, can you see it, is it going in the right box. When we finish, it stays with you, so you can keep using it as the house changes.
Every tool starts with what you already own. These are the ones we build from, and use on our own projects.
Our take. Three spots and five candidates, so scale is the whole question. Ceiling height tells us what reads too large, and the box tells us what it can carry.
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Choose it once, and know it fits.
A fast, room-by-room review of lighting, tile and finishes, with your look book beside the candidates. Options are compared side by side, quick notes capture how each one felt in the room, and confirmed choices roll into a live budget.
- It checks before you buy. Fixture size against the room, and the fixture against the box and location it is going into.
- It gives an opinion. Every item carries our take, in plain language, up front.
- It does the busywork. Product photos and details are pulled in automatically and tied to the selection.
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Furnish the real room, in real inches.
Whole-house furniture planning, built for the iPad. It starts with what you own: existing pieces are measured and placed first, then new ones fill the gaps. The architect's plan is the canvas, every piece is drawn to size, and the same room model carries screens, lighting and outlets so the layout and the systems are decided together.
- It checks the room, not just the piece. Walkway distances, door swings, and the reach of floor boxes are tested as you place things.
- It trusts the house over the drawing. Dimensions, floor boxes and outlets come from field measurements and photographs, and you can enter what you know first.
- It never throws your work away. Revisions keep what has been placed, and a finished room can be locked.
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Pick the screen from where people actually sit.
Room by room, we place the screen and the seating on the plan, and the planner reports the viewing angle, the sizes that fit a comfortable view, and whether each candidate suits the wall or cabinet it will live in. It starts with the TVs you already own, and a screen is replaced only when the room says it should be.
- It draws the wall to scale. The chosen screen is shown in the cabinetry elevation, with seated eye level marked.
- It reconciles the proposal. A contractor's quote is read, matched to the plan, and any change is shown before it replaces a price.
- It hands off cleanly. Screen and speaker decisions flow to the layout and selection tools, and to a printed list for the installer.
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Know what is in every box, before anyone trims it out.
Built conditions rarely match the drawings, so we walk the house and record every box: where it is, what it holds, and whether the location is smart or a standard switch. Lutron wireless coverage is planned from published range limits, and the electrician receives a plan that matches the walls.
- It uses what is real. Boxes and fixtures are measured and photographed room by room on a phone, then verified against the selections.
- It keeps smart where smart earns it. Standard switches stay at rough-in; only the chosen locations are swapped for connected devices.
- It leaves you an as-built. Owners and service technicians get the record, not a guess.
sample data, still in development
Choose finishes the way you will see them, in the house.
Every surface gets a decision, and every option starts from your look book. Tile is picked room by room on a shared board where anyone can add an option. Paint starts with the exterior and moves inward, with each color compared side by side and assigned to body or trim.
- One shared list. You, we and the trades add options from a phone or the planner, and everyone sees the same board and what is still undecided.
- It knows the surface. A heated floor or a wet wall is flagged against the tile before it is chosen.
- Real samples decide. Screens only approximate color, so each finalist is ordered as a sample and photographed on the house before it is confirmed.
Right period for the house. Ask for the aged finish, not the polished one.
Open glass shows dust, and the bulb is hard to reach at this height.
Lovely, but it lights the ceiling. Pair it with a lamp at eye level.
Agree on the finish. The dusting is real. Your call, and we have told you what it costs.
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More than one opinion on what you love.
We load your look book into the design tool, so feedback starts from your inspiration, not ours. Alongside our own view, the tool gives you several AI-generated design perspectives, each arguing from a different point of view. You see where they agree, where they do not, and why.
- It starts from your taste. The opinions respond to what you collected, checked against your client profile.
- Disagreement is shown, not hidden. You get the trade-offs instead of one person's preference.
- They advise. You decide. These are software viewpoints, clearly labeled, and the final call is always yours.
Inventory should feel like a quick walk, not paperwork.
Two of our tools exist only to capture what you own and what is in the walls. Both are built for a phone, with large tap targets and almost no typing, so a room takes minutes and you can be part of it.
Furniture Quick Add
Take a photo, tap a type, set the size and quantity, and move on. Drag a box over the photo to pick the fabric or finish color. Everything you own lands in the layout planner, ready to place.
Box Walk
Walk the house room by room and tap what is in each box: switch, 3-way, 4-way, outlet, keypad. Unsure is a valid answer, and a progress count shows what is left. The result is the record the electrician and Lutron programmer work from.
One model of the house
Layout, screens, lighting and outlets share one room model, so a decision made in one tool shows up in the others.
Checks that think
Scale, fit, reach, sightlines and clearances are tested as decisions are made, not discovered at install.
Yours to keep
The tools and the as-built record are handed over at the end, built for your house and no one else's.
Built from the walls
You enter what you know. We verify it with field measurements and photographs, then hand the trades a plain specification.
Views shown are drawn from our tools with sample data.
Warm, layered, and rooted in the architecture of the house.
Our direction begins with your look book. Collect screenshots, magazine pages, Pinterest boards, photos of rooms you love, whatever shows how you want a space to feel, and send it as it is. We sort it, find what repeats, and turn it into selections: honest materials, period-appropriate detail and light that changes through the day.
This is how people really work now: they gather as they go, from everywhere, and know it when they see it. A look book lets you take part in the design, and we make it the reference for every decision that follows. We hold ourselves to historically faithful proportion and millwork, and to building-science discipline: getting the details right behind the walls as well as on them.
illustrative plates. Yours come from your own look book.
Early adopters who learned to simplify.
We have lived with connected homes for years, long enough to know which parts make life easier and which just add another app. That is the experience we bring, and why our first recommendation is often the smallest one.
How we think about technology
Our background is in large-scale process and workflow improvement: finding the ten-step task and making it two. In a house, that means fewer devices, fewer apps and controls anyone can use without instructions.
We are a certified Lutron RadioRA 3 installer and design UniFi networks, audio-video and RF coverage ourselves, so the plan and the install come from the same people.
How we work with you
We run each project the way a good program is run: clear scope, decisions written down, and nothing ordered until it has been checked against the house.
We build the tools each project needs instead of forcing it into software made for someone else, and you keep them. We also start with what you own. If a TV, a speaker or a router still does the job, it stays. If something is cheaper to buy yourself, we will tell you where.
Tell us about the house.
A room, a renovation or a new build. Tell us where you are and what is not working. We reply to every inquiry.