A cozy living room with a white sectional sofa decorated with beige and rust-colored pillows, a wooden coffee table with a flower vase, a potted plant near a window with cream curtains, and a view of a kitchen area with white cabinets and modern art on the wall.

Designed once. Meant to be inherited.

A Cleveland interior design studio. We create spaces that look gathered rather than decorated — here, and wherever else your family keeps one.

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The studio

A home should feel like the people in it.

That sounds simple. It is the hardest part of the work. Almost any room can be made to photograph well. The harder thing is a room that holds a Tuesday morning, a full table in November and twenty years of family life, and only looks better for it.

So we build homes the way the good ones happen anyway — layer by layer. Something inherited next to something new. A rug that has been walked on. Nothing in the house matching anything else on purpose.

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Rob and Adam walking through the Him and His studio on Detroit Avenue

A modern bathroom with a white freestanding bathtub with a wooden tray and red flowers, positioned in front of a large window with white blinds, black floor tiles, and a beige area rug. — Primary bath — Gates Mills

Folded wool and linen throws stacked on an antique wooden chest — Sourcing & specification

Selected work

Homes that look like they happened slowly.

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The idea

The homes we love were never decorated. They were gathered.

A piece at a time, over years, with things that came from somewhere and a few that will go to someone. Our work is giving yours a head start — and then being around for the parts that come later.

Services

Three ways to begin.

Design Consulting

A morning in your home and a plan you can act on. For when you want to get one part right before committing to all of it.

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Renovation

Kitchens, primary suites and whole homes. We hold the concept, the drawings, the sourcing and your contractor, through to the last light switch.

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New Construction

We come in at plan review, before the builder locks the specs — so a new home arrives with some depth to it instead of waiting years to earn any.

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Where we work

Both sides of the river.

The studio is on Detroit Avenue in Detroit–Shoreway, so the west side is home ground — Lakewood, Rocky River, Bay Village, Ohio City. Across the river we work in Shaker Heights, Cleveland Heights, Chagrin Falls, Gates Mills, Hunting Valley and Bratenahl. And the rest is wherever a family keeps a second home: Florida, the Great Lakes, the Northeast, the Mountain West. We go to the house. That part is never negotiable.

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Leather, stone, tile and textile samples laid out on a work table during material selection

How it goes

You will always know where you are.

Seven phases, from a thirty-minute phone call to the morning the last thing is set down. At every one you know what we need from you, what we are doing, and what arrives at the end of it. Nobody enjoys a renovation they cannot see the shape of.

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Tell us about the home.

Every project starts the same way: thirty minutes on the phone, no charge and no pitch. You tell us about the house and what is not working in it, and we tell you honestly whether we are the right studio for it. Most of our clients come back afterwards — for the next room, or the next house, or the one by the lake. We would rather begin something that lasts than close something that does not.

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Or call (216) 236-3883
Monday to Friday, 9am–7pm