08/10/2026
There’s something to be said about working with clients who have become friends.
We’ve all heard the advice: never work with family, never do business with friends. But after nearly 20 years of doing this work, I have to say our experience has often been quite the opposite.
Designing someone’s home requires a level of trust that is difficult to describe. You are invited into their home, their routines, their history, their hopes for how they want to live. You learn what matters to them, what they hold onto, what they are ready to change and what they hope this next chapter will feel like.
When that relationship deepens into friendship, I don’t believe it compromises the creative process. I believe it can make it better.
There is a sacred responsibility in being trusted with someone’s forever home, and that has never been lost on me. Every note, every conversation, every passing thought and every wish matters.
Because the best homes we create are not simply a reflection of our work. They are a reflection of the people who trusted us to know them well enough to create something that feels unmistakably theirs.