The art ofbringing the outsidein.
A second opinion means everything. Get it right on paper, while changing it still costs nothing.
About Linda
For more than 40 years I’ve planned spaces for some of the country’s top corporations, country clubs, museums, and private homes. The lesson that stuck, across all of it: the plan decides almost everything. Get the layout and the flow right on paper and the finished home works. Get them wrong and no finish budget makes up for it.
That’s the whole reason I do these reviews. I’d love to look at your new build or renovation plan with you and help make it the best it can be, before small layout or flow mistakes turn expensive. Once construction starts, every correction costs more than it would have on paper.
Experience
- BA in Interior Architecture & Design, University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning, 1984
- 40+ years in commercial and residential design and project management
- 12 years directing a 28-person in-house design studio for a Fortune 500 financial corporation, across new construction, renovation, and fit-out
- Projects across private homes, museums, theaters, country clubs, churches, schools, and retreat centers
- 25 years of nonprofit board leadership and pro bono design
Sometimes a plan
doesn’t feel right.
Other times you know something’s wrong and not how to fix it. Or it reads fine and you just want an experienced eye before the costs are set. I look at the whole plan: whether every square foot is working, whether the rooms flow and the adjacencies make sense, where the home can open to the outdoors. Four stand-alone reviews, architect-led, on Zoom. An eraser beats a sledgehammer every time.
Full Floor Plan Review.
New builds and whole-house renovations.
Partial Floor Plan Review.
Up to three adjoining, functionally related rooms.
Design Consultation.
Any stage, any question.
Landscape/Hardscape Layout Review.
Standalone landscape or hardscape projects, or paired with the home.