MOST RENOVATIONS ARE WON OR LOST BEFORE THEY BEGIN
Independent advice at any stage, or full design leadership start to finish.
THE HIRING TRAP
Every project starts with a hire — a GC, an architect, a designer. Each is capable, and each is vested in their own scope. None is paid to tell you whether the project is set up correctly in the first place.
That's the trap: not hiring, but hiring the wrong role first. The decisions that shape cost and outcome — how the project is positioned, who joins it and on what terms, whether the design fits how you actually live — get made before anyone independent is in the room.
That's the one role I play. I'm not bidding on your construction or your design fee. My only stake is whether the project is set up to succeed.
WHERE A RENOVATION IS ACTUALLY DECIDED
tw0 disciplines.
one principal.
Interior designer and
owner's representative — two disciplines that rarely share one practice. Most projects require both and hire them separately, which is how their interests diverge. Here they don't.
Behind them, a network of architects, contractors and specialists built over 25 years of New Yorkrenovations — chosen for temperament as much as craft.
no fees schedule
Most designers and architects charge a fixed percentage of the project. It's the industry default, and it quietly works against you: a percentage rewards a bigger budget, not a better decision. The person advising you to spend more is paid more when you do.
I don't work that way. The arrangement is set to the project and how you want to run it — which is what lets me stay independent even when I'm also the designer. My interest is the outcome, not the invoice.
