Amora Home

Interior design consulting agency in the Washington D.C. metro area.

With over 15 years of experience in the design industry, we work closely with our clients with one goal in mind–create your home.

10/07/2026

Fairfax, we’ll see you Saturday! 🍂

We’re popping up at the 50th Annual City of Fairfax Fall Festival this weekend and if you’ve never been this is a good year to change that.

Historic downtown Fairfax will be filled with 400+ art + craft vendors, food, live entertainment, kids’ activities, b**r gardens and more! Amora Home will be right there in the middle of it, find us at booth 157.

Come wander, eat something good, shop local and stop by to say hi. 👋 We’d love to see you!

📍 Historic Downtown Fairfax
📅 Saturday, October 10
⏰ 10 AM–5 PM

10/03/2026

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Apparently everything I do comes back to hospitality. 😉

In the restaurant world, mise en place is something chefs live by. Literally, “everything in its place.” It’s what allows a dinner service to run smoothly because what you need is where you need it, when you need it.

I think about homes the same way.

Before we decide where the cabinets go or start adding organizational features, we think about how the space is actually going to be used. What happens here every day? What needs to be within reach? Where are the things that usually end up cluttering the counter going to live?

That might mean a pullout beside the range for the utensils you reach for while cooking. A narrow cabinet that turns a few inches into spice storage. A designated spot for sheet pans and cutting boards. Hidden trash and recycling. A coffee station that can disappear behind closed doors. Even a place for the dog bowls.

It’s not organization for organization’s sake. It’s designing the space around the way the people in it actually live, so everything has a place and there’s a place for everything.

Turns out, good hospitality and good design have a lot in common.

09/26/2026

It’s probably not the part of the shower you noticed and that’s kind of the point.

In this bathroom, we used the same countertop slab material to create custom jambs (the vertical sides of the shower entry) and a threshold (the piece you step over), as well as the sill (the top of the wall).

Beyond creating a cleaner transition, the solid stone gives the shower doors a sturdy surface for installation and gives the surrounding tile a finished edge to meet.

This is the kind of detail we’re thinking about long before installation. How materials meet, where transitions happen and how one finish carries into the next are the intentional decisions that make a finished space feel seamless.

Good design is often hiding in the details that aren’t even on your radar.

Countertops material: Daltile Daltile stone center
Countertop fabrication & install: Copan
General builders
General Contractor: Greenway Builders
Photography: Jessica Overcash

09/23/2026

A little something special for a very good cause. 💗

Every year we put together a gift basket for Mara’s Pink Wave Campaign benefiting the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation and we’re happy to be joining them again this year.

Our basket includes a three hour design consultation with Amy, plus a throw and accent pillow. That’s an $800 value and a pretty fun excuse to finally tackle that space you’ve been thinking about. 😉

Every donation to Mara’s campaign earns raffle tickets for prizes donated by local businesses and 100% of the funds raised go directly to the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation.

Want a chance to win ours? 💗 Donate through the link in ’s bio, then email your receipt, name, phone number and the prize you’d like your tickets to go toward to [email protected].

The fundraiser runs through October 31, with winners announced in early November. Good luck! 🤞

09/16/2026

Have you noticed? We love brass ✨

To be fair, we think every finish has its place, but more often than not, we find ourselves coming back to this classic finish.

Which is especially funny considering I spent the first few years of my career removing polished brass from bathrooms. 😂

But this isn’t your grandma’s lacquered polished brass. We’re talking unlacquered brass that develops a beautiful patina over time or a soft satin brass.

09/12/2026

There’s a lot that happens between “we need help with this space” and the finished photo.

It starts with people. With listening to how you live, what isn’t working, what matters to you and sometimes what you didn’t know you needed.

From there, it’s a little bit of everything: presentations around the table, materials spread across any available surface as inspiration strikes, plans reviewed on site again and again, patterns worked out piece by piece, and plenty of conversations with the people who help bring it all to life.

If you’ve worked with me, you know I’m not really a sit behind a desk kind of designer. I want to see it, move it around, lay it out on the floor if I have to, and probably feed you somewhere along the way.

My background in hospitality taught me that the way a space feels matters just as much as the way it looks. I love beautiful things, but I’m far more interested in creating a home that feels like you. A home that welcomes people in, makes everyday life easier, and leaves room for the meals, messes, dogs, kids and memories happening there.

And yes, eventually we get to the pillows. 😉

Spaces. People. Possibility.

Turns out, that’s a pretty good description of what I get to do every day.

09/08/2026

Tile does a lot of heavy lifting around here.

Sometimes it’s the thing you notice first. Sometimes it’s quietly doing its job in the background. It can protect a wall, handle water, take the daily abuse of a floor, add texture, introduce color or pattern or turn an otherwise overlooked surface into part of the design.

The same material can play so many different roles depending on where and how we use it.

On a backsplash, it can be the personality in the room or simply give everything else a place to shine. In a shower, performance matters just as much as appearance—we often use smaller tiles on the shower floor because the additional grout lines add slip resistance. On a floor, durability and maintenance become part of the conversation. Sometimes we use tile somewhere you might not expect it at all and it becomes a work of art.

That last one is exactly what happened with this bar. The back of a drywall peninsula takes a beating between shoes, scuffs, chairs, and everyday life. Instead of treating it like an afterthought, we tiled it. Now the surface is more durable and the tile gives the bar an identity of its own.

And then there are all the decisions you probably never notice: scale, orientation, grout, layout, edges, transitions, where a pattern starts and stops, and how one material meets the next.

With tile, choosing the pretty one is really only the beginning.

09/04/2026

Hardware may be the jewelry of a design but pretty isn’t the only requirement.

Hardware can completely change how cabinetry feels. Scale, finish, shape, placement and most importantly, how it actually feels in your hand. I usually start with the style and finish, looking at how the hardware relates to everything else happening in the room. From there, function and the way the client actually wants to use the space help determine the rest.

Two pulls on a long drawer or one? K***s or pulls on the doors? Sometimes the door style itself makes the decision for us. And I always love a hidden tab pull when we want something that looks stationary to quietly function.

My appreciation for this detail began in 2012 when I worked at Weaver Hardware in Georgetown, one of the oldest hardware stores and a treasure trove of unique options. Years later, I can still happily lose myself in a wall of k***s and pulls.

While I have my go-to brands, I still love getting lost in a boutique hardware store. Sometimes you really do need to see it, hold it and feel how it works.

So yes, I will absolutely spend an unreasonable amount of time choosing the thing you use to open a drawer.

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