We are six designers on the Mesa who take on about nine houses a year, so the person who measures your rooms is the person who hangs the last picture.
We keep what you love, buy the rest to last and put every price in writing before anything is ordered. The same install crew has worked with us since 2017, and they will be the ones carrying your sofa up the stairs.
Six recent projects from the Riviera to Ojai, each photographed a few months after install day.
Whole house
For houses you are moving into or renovating
From $24,000
Five to eight months
Room by room
For one to three rooms at a time
From $6,500 a room
Twelve to sixteen weeks
Kitchens and baths
For renovations with a contractor
From $12,000
Four to six months
How a house comes together
Four steps in the same order every time. You always know what happens next, who is doing it and what it costs.
Consultation
Week one
Two hours in your house. We measure, listen, photograph what you want to keep and send written notes within three days. $450, taken off your design fee if you go ahead.
Concept
Weeks two to six
A furnished floor plan for every room and a sample board you can hold: plaster, wood, fabric and stone, priced line by line.
Drawings and ordering
Weeks six to twenty
Elevations for your contractor and every order placed and tracked by us on one schedule you can read. Deliveries land at our warehouse first.
Install
One or two days
We bring everything in, hang the art, make the beds and walk the house with you. You come home to finished rooms.
The Riviera living room, drawn in March and installed in June.
Lime plaster
Hand troweled, bone white
White oak
Rift sawn, oiled
Belgian linen
Stonewashed, natural
Limestone
Honed, sealed twice a year
Terracotta tile
Handmade, herringbone
Rattan
Hand woven, unstained
Undyed wool
Flatweave, left natural
Steel doors
Powder coated, soft black
Our houses have appeared in
What clients tell us a year later
“We gave Linden a floor plan and a Pinterest board we were embarrassed by. Seven months later our kids actually sit in the living room, and the budget moved by $3,200, which they told us about in writing before it happened.”
Marisol Alvarez
Riviera, Santa Barbara. Whole house, 2025
“They kept my grandmother’s desk and built the study around it. Install day took six hours and I did not lift a thing.”
Diane Whitcomb
The Mesa, Santa Barbara. Living room and study, 2024
“The kitchen drawings were so complete our contractor stopped calling us with questions. We were cooking again in eleven weeks.”
Sam Okafor
Montecito. Kitchen and family room, 2025
Questions we hear first
Something else on your mind? Call the studio and a designer will pick up.
Do you charge for the consultation?
Is there a minimum project size?
How long does a whole house take?
Can we keep furniture we already own?
Do you mark up furniture?
Do you work outside Santa Barbara?
Start with two hours at your house
A designer walks every room with you, measures, listens, and sends written notes the same week. The visit is $450, and it comes off your design fee if we go on to work together.