Interior Design for Centennial Homes
Transforming Homes Through Comprehensive Design
After 15 years designing homes across Europe, Asia, and the United States, I came to Centennial to make it home for my family.
In 2025, Centennial residents voted me their Platinum Interior Designer and Platinum Interior Decorator; two separate categories, one suburb. I don't take that lightly.
When you describe your house on Smoky Hill Road, the 1985 split-level near Southglenn, or the ranch in Foxridge you've been slowly renovating for years; I know exactly what you're talking about. I've driven those streets. I understand the architecture of that era. I know what's possible and what isn't inside those walls. I'm not figuring out Centennial from the outside. I'm as local as it gets.
This is What I Do For You
There's a gap between the home you have and the home you've been imagining. Sometimes it's one room that's never quite worked. Sometimes it's a floor plan that made sense twenty years ago but doesn't fit your life now. Sometimes the house functions fine but never feels like you.
That gap is where I work.
I have architectural training, so I think about space, structure, and light the way an architect would; but with a designer's eye for the materials, color, and details that make a house feel like a particular person lives there. Sometimes that means gutting a kitchen and reimagining it completely. Sometimes it means working entirely with what you already have and finally making a room feel finished.
I meet clients at every point along that spectrum. A well-resolved living room is just as satisfying to me as a full renovation.
Centennial Homes Have Real Potential
The houses here were built solidly. The bones are good. But most were designed when kitchens were separate, living rooms were formal, and the primary suite was just the biggest bedroom down the hall.
That era is over.
Families want to be together. Kitchens are where everything happens now. The primary suite has become somewhere people actually invest in; a real retreat, not just a place to sleep.
What I find, over and over: Centennial homes want to open up. The wall between the kitchen and the family room is often the single change that transforms everything. The formal dining room nobody uses could become the space your family actually needs. The closed-off primary bath often has more potential than people realize.
I also know some Centennial homes have been over-renovated in ways that erased what made them interesting. I believe in understanding what a house wants to be before I start changing it.
How We Work Together
There's no single right way to work with a designer. I've stopped pretending there is.
Some people want full service. Develop the entire vision, manage every contractor conversation, handle hundreds of decisions on their behalf, and deliver a finished home they didn't have to think about every day. For the right project and the right client, it's transformative.
Some people want a collaborator. They have strong ideas and can manage their own contractors; but they want an expert helping them avoid mistakes, pushing their thinking, and validating the choices that are right. That's what partial design services are for.
Some people just need a starting point. A few hours together in their home, talking through what's possible. They leave with a clear direction, specific recommendations, contractor referrals if needed, and the confidence to move forward. That's a consultation.
All three approaches result in homes people love. The structure isn't about budget levels or how "serious" someone is. It's about how you work best and what kind of support actually serves you.
What Projects Often Look Like Here
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Kitchen Design and Renovations
Usually where Centennial homeowners start, and rightfully so. Most kitchens here benefit from opening up to the family room, adding an island for gathering, and replacing the dated finishes that have been quietly frustrating you for years.This involves architectural thinking (which walls move, where plumbing goes, how to bring in more light) and the design details that give a kitchen personality. The hardware, the range style, the tile, the way cabinets relate to ceiling height. That's where your house stops looking like everyone else's.
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Living Spaces That Work for How You Live
Sometimes the renovation is the furniture. I've worked with clients who had a room full of pieces that individually were fine but collectively never worked; wrong scale, wrong arrangement, bland fabrics, nothing anchoring it.Getting a room right sometimes means starting over. More often it means keeping what you love, letting go of what you don't, adding one custom piece at the right size, and making deliberate decisions about lighting and window treatments. Rooms that just work are harder than they look, and I'm as interested in this kind of project as in a full gut renovation.
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Primary Suites and Bathroom Design
This is where I see the biggest gap between what these homes offer and what people want. A bedroom that's just a room. A bathroom with a tub nobody uses and a shower that barely works. A closet designed for a different era.There's usually real opportunity; adjacent rooms, hallways, square footage that isn't earning its place. I think about primary suites as retreats that should feel fundamentally different from the rest of the house. Quieter. More intentional. More personal.
Your House Should Look Like You
This is what I care most about; and what separates design I'm proud of from design that's just competent.
Every home I work on should be unmistakably the home of the people who live there. Not my aesthetic. Yours.
My job is to help you find and articulate what that actually is, then bring the expertise to get you there more effectively than you'd get there alone. That starts with really listening.
Where have you felt most at home in your life? What do you have right now that you actually love? What bothers you about your space?
The answers point toward your values, which point toward the design.
No two Centennial homes I've worked on have looked alike. That's not an accident. It's the whole point.
How the Process Works
Every project starts the same way: a conversation about how you actually live. Not what you want it to look like; how you move through your home, what frustrates you, what you want more of.
From there I look at what you have. The architecture, the light, the proportions, what's working despite everything. I go through your existing furniture, art, and objects with you. What you've chosen to keep says something real about your taste even if you've never named it.
Then I develop the design. Floor plans, material selections, furniture specifications, lighting plans. You see the complete vision before anything gets ordered or built. Changes are welcome here; they're costly once construction starts.
Once the project is moving, I manage the work; contractor relationships, order tracking, site visits, quality control. For full-service clients, I handle all of it. For partial design clients, I give you the tools to handle it yourself.
Either way: I'm there for installation. I don't hand off drawings and disappear.
Getting Started
The easiest first step is a 10-minute phone call. I learn about your project, you learn about how I work. No commitment, no pressure, just enough to know if it makes sense to go further.
If it does, we’ll have another detailed 30 minute Zoom call to review my process and discuss your project. After that, when we’ve decided to move forward with the design I walk through your spaces with you and talk honestly about what's possible.
Your Questions, Answered
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That's the most common place people start. You know something isn't working but you haven't been able to name the problem clearly enough to know what to do. Part of what I do early on is help identify what's actually going on. Sometimes the problem is what you think it is. Sometimes fixing something else entirely unlocks everything.
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I want you to have strong opinions, it makes my job better. What I bring is the expertise to realize your vision more effectively than you could alone. I'll push back when something won't work and explain why. But I'm working in service of your home, not mine.
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Yes, and I usually do. Most clients have pieces they love, pieces they're ambivalent about, and pieces they've kept out of inertia. Part of the early process is going through what you have; what stays, what gets reupholstered, what finds a better home. Some of my favorite projects were built around a few pieces a client refused to give up. Constraints can be creative.
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Both. A well-resolved kitchen, a living room that finally works, a primary bedroom that feels like a real retreat; those are complete projects. I'm not holding out for whole-home renovations. If your priority is your kitchen, that's where we start.
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Come find me anyway. I've worked with clients who'd already ordered cabinets, picked flooring, and committed to a contractor. We work with what exists and make the remaining decisions well. Earlier is always better; but the best time to hire a designer is whenever you realize you want help.
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Fifteen minutes from most Centennial neighborhoods. I know the contractors who do good work here and the ones to avoid. I've renovated homes in Smoky Hill, Foxridge, and Walnut Hills. This is my neighborhood. I'm not flying in from somewhere else.