FOR EXCEPTIONAL HOMEOWNERS
The plan your home has been waiting for.
A comprehensive roadmap for the design, capital improvements, and sourcing that maximize the value and livability of your home.
Request a RecordTHE PRACTICE
Why this exists
For fifteen years, we have been the last people through the door before a home becomes someone's life.
We have built custom millwork for penthouses. Sourced upholstery from workshops in Italy that do not have websites. Found 1970s Austrian palazzo glass sconces made by a single artist, at $3,000, that outlast and outperform anything a showroom sells for $2,000, and cost the same to wire. We have walked into apartments after architects changed the layout without telling the designer, after contractors finished the floors before the millwork was planned, after owners spent $160,000 on furniture that was worth nothing the day it left the store. Every time, the same thing was missing. Not a better contractor. Not a bigger budget. A plan. Clients kept asking us for it. We finally built it.
See the RecordWhy this exists
For more than fifteen years, we have been the last people through the door before a home becomes someone's life.
We built custom millwork for penthouses. Sourced upholstery from workshops in Italy that do not have websites. Found 1970s Austrian palazzo glass sconces made by a single artist, at $3,000, that outlast anything a showroom sells for $2,000 and cost the same to wire.
We also walked into apartments after architects changed the layout without telling the designer. After contractors finished the floors before the millwork was planned. After owners spent $160,000 on furniture that was worth nothing the day it left the store.
Every time, the same thing was missing. Not a better contractor. Not a bigger budget. A plan.
For three years we built that plan privately, for our own clients at NYC Interior Design ®. Lawyers asked for it. Insurers asked for it. Estate attorneys asked for it. Homeowners kept asking us if they could have one without hiring us for a full project.
In May 2025 we made it available as a standalone product. We filled our first quarter within weeks.
The Record is produced in person, at your residence, by the same team that has been doing this work since 2010. There is a limited number we can take on at any time.
See the RecordYOUR RESIDENCE, DOCUMENTED.
Pick a section · See what you get
Tracks all sections
- Every room
- Every item and finish
- Every system
- Building constraints
- Alteration history
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SECTIONS IN YOUR RECORD
A permanent record of what your home actually is.
WHAT YOU GET
A plan you own, for a residence you love.
Every room considered. Every piece named, with the reason it belongs and what it costs. And the sequence that keeps one decision from ruining the next, which is where the money goes when nobody is watching it.
Our work lives in
The practice
Fifteen years. Hundreds of properties.
We are the only design-build firm in the country that offers full-service design, design-build, and works with dedicated upholstery and millwork studios in Brooklyn. Over 5,000 brands, craftspeople, and vendors sourced across fifteen years. Local craftspeople. Workshops in Italy, Scandinavia, Japan, and South America. The Record launched May 7, 2025. This is version two of the platform.
THE FOUNDATION
Capital improvement is where value is captured. Design is how you get there.
Most homeowners discover this after the fact. A professionally designed home is not a luxury. It is the correct sequence of decisions, made in the right order, with the right people, before the money moves. The Record is the plan that makes it possible, no matter where you are in the journey.
Request a RecordThe problem
The designer is almost always hired last. Sometimes not at all.
Architects and contractors are licensed, expensive, and confident. They arrive first and they move fast. By the time a designer walks in, decisions have already been made that cost $20,000 to undo.
A licensed architect came into a penthouse we were engaged on while the project was waiting on permits.
He redesigned the entire layout: more storage, and a new entrance through the kitchen. More work for him. More invoices for the contractor. And a penthouse that no longer felt like one, because penthouses do not enter through the kitchen. Our designer caught it. Reverting those plans saved the client $60,000 to $80,000 and four to six weeks of unnecessary work. That is one decision. In a single room. In a single morning.
A home that is done right does not feel designed. It feels inevitable.
The Record is how you get there, no matter where you are on the journey.
What the record serves
One document. Seven parties. One set of rules about what it may contain.
- The owner: every room documented, room by room, with full provenance
- The buyer: precision in place of adjectives, especially useful off market
- The estate attorney: contents identified before they need to be
- The insurer: scheduled items and dated photographs, held before a loss
- The accountant: improvement documentation organized and dated
- The building manager: alteration agreement history, what was approved and installed
- Another designer: a documented apartment removes the first two weeks of any engagement
Buying a property?
The Record is available while in contract. One visit before the keys change hands tells you exactly what you are getting, what the building will allow, and what the right sequence of decisions is before you spend a dollar on it.
Request before closingThe cost of not having a plan
Professional design gives you permission.
Permission to stop second-guessing. Permission to buy the piece you love instead of the safer one. Permission to finish a room and leave it finished. The homes that feel right did not happen by accident. They happened because someone with the right knowledge was in the room early enough to matter.
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