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Lakeside Cottage Refresh
Clearwater Bluff · 2025
A 1940s cottage that had gone dark and heavy, opened back up to the water.
Clearwater Bluff, Minnesota · Est. 2012
A house you stop apologizing for.
A residential interior design studio for houses that should look like somebody lives in them. We work on a handful of homes a year, one room or all of them, and we stay on site until the last shelf is styled.
Selected work
Three houses, three completely different arguments.
How we work together
Four ways in.
Most people start small and grow into the full service. That is fine by us. Fees below are starting points, quoted properly once we have seen the rooms.
What each one includes- 01
Full-service design
From $6,500
The whole house, or a whole floor, from first survey to the day we hang the last picture. You approve a plan once and we run it.
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Room refresh
From $1,800
One room, reworked with what you already own plus a short shopping list. Best for a room that has never quite settled.
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Furnishing and styling
From $2,400
For a house that is structurally finished and still feels empty. We furnish it, dress it and leave it photograph ready.
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Color consultation
From $450
Ninety minutes, one house, every wall decided. The cheapest way to stop repainting the hallway a fourth time.
The approach
Three rules we do not bend.
01
The room before the mood board
We measure, photograph and sit in every room at three different times of day before a single image gets pinned. Light is the material you cannot buy, so it goes first.
02
Buy fewer things, better
Most rooms are not short of furniture. Half of a typical budget goes on two or three pieces that will outlive the scheme, and the rest is spent making what you own look deliberate.
03
You have to live in it
Nothing goes in a plan that cannot survive a wet dog, a toddler or a Tuesday. If a finish only works when the house is empty, it is a photograph, not a design.
Clients
What they said after.
These three are placeholders. Swap them for your own Google reviews once you have them.
“We had lived with a dark living room for a decade and assumed it needed an extension. It needed a plan, a different floor finish and four hours of honest conversation.”
“Every trade turned up when the schedule said they would, and the budget landed within two hundred dollars of the estimate. The stone wall was worth every argument.”
“The color consultation alone saved us three repaints. We booked the full service two weeks later and have not second-guessed a single choice since.”
Next step
Tell us which room is bothering you.
The first conversation is an hour, on site or on the phone, and costs nothing. You leave with a straight answer about what your rooms need and what it would cost.