Ojai farmhouse
A 1910 farmhouse at the edge of an orange grove. Old terracotta floors, a table long enough for twelve, rush chairs and a plaster niche for the owner's pots.
Scope
Whole house, 1,900 square feet
Timeline
Six months
Design fee
$27,000
Furniture and finishes
$118,000
Photographs
Photographed in May 2024
The brief
Caroline hosts dinners for twelve most Sundays and had been borrowing folding tables for years. The house had good bones, tired floors and a collection of old pots with nowhere to live.
What we did
We had the original terracotta floors cleaned and resealed rather than replaced, found a painted trestle table long enough for twelve and paired it with rush chairs from a maker in Mexico City. The dining wall got a deep plaster niche for the pots.
What changed
The whole house was installed in a single day. Sunday dinners moved indoors in winter for the first time.
“Install day took nine hours. We came home and the beds were made.”
Caroline Pruitt
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.