Renovation

• Kitchens, primary bathrooms, and full main floors.
• Whole-home renovations, including older east-side houses where the architecture deserves to be respected rather than flattened.
• Homeowners who have a contractor and want someone driving the design side of the schedule.
• Homeowners who do not have a contractor and would rather be handed one who already knows how we work.

This is not the right service if you want a single room refreshed with existing furniture, or a plan you will execute yourself. That is Design Consulting.

Design

• Existing conditions review and measurement
• Space planning and layout revisions, including walls, openings, and circulation
• Interior architecture direction — millwork, cabinetry, ceiling and trim detail, lighting locations
• A developed concept presented in full, not in fragments

Specification

• Every finish specified by name: tile, stone, flooring, paint, plumbing, hardware, lighting, appliances
• Cabinetry design and elevations
• A full schedule your contractor can price and order from
• Furniture, textiles, and accessories specified alongside the construction package so the room is finished, not just built

Sourcing and procurement

• Ordering, tracking and freight management
• We procure every furnishing in the project ourselves. You do not place orders, chase suppliers, or handle damaged freight.
• Goods are delivered to our receiving warehouse, Delivery by the Falls, where they are inspected and held until installation day rather than stacked in your garage.

Coordination and delivery

• Contractor coordination through the build, with design decisions answered as they come up rather than a week later
• Site visits every two weeks through construction, and more often at the points where it matters
• Receiving, delivery, and installation
• Final walkthrough and punch list

01. Discovery Call

Thirty minutes by phone, at no charge. Scope, house, timeline, and budget range. By the end of the call you know whether this is a project we can take and roughly what it costs to do properly.

02. Retainer and booking

We take a limited number of projects each year in order to give each one the time and attention it deserves. The retainer is $5,000. It books you into our calendar, safeguards our bandwidth for your project, and is credited against your final invoice.

03. Immersion

Questionnaires, meetings, and brainstorming sessions. You tell us how you live, who is in the house, what the mornings look like, where everyone actually ends up. This is what makes the concept yours rather than a good-looking room that belongs to nobody.

04. Concept

Layouts, materials, and direction presented as one coherent scheme. We revise, you approve, and the approved concept governs everything downstream.

05. Specification and sourcing

Every item named, priced and scheduled. Long-lead items ordered first.

06. Contractor coordination

Your contractor or one of ours. We answer the questions the site generates, hold the drawings and the schedule, and keep the design intact through construction.

07. Installation

Delivery, placement, styling, walkthrough, punch list. You come home to a finished house rather than a box maze.

Kitchen renovations typically start at $125,000 in total project investment. Full-home renovations typically start at $350,000 in total project investment.

Those are total project figures — construction, cabinetry, finishes, furnishings, and design combined. They are not design fees. Design fees are quoted after the Discovery Call, based on scope, because a single kitchen and a whole house are not the same piece of work and should not be priced as though they were.

Our minimum for any commission is a total project investment of $100,000. Below that, we will say so on the call and, where we can, point you somewhere more suitable.

The retainer is $5,000, credited against your final invoice.

How long does a renovation take?

Design runs four to six months, construction another six to eight, so ten to fourteen months from the first meeting to installation day. Scope moves that figure in both directions, and we get a much better sense of yours on the Discovery Call.

Do we need a contractor before we call you?

No. If you already have a contractor or builder you love, we work with them. If you do not, we will recommend contractors we have used in the past who know our process.

Who holds the construction contract?

You do. The contractor contracts directly with you, not through the studio. That keeps the construction money and the construction warranty between you and the person doing the building, while we hold the design and drive the schedule from our side.

Can we buy some of the furniture ourselves?

No. We procure all furnishings for our projects. Placing the orders ourselves is how we manage freight, damage claims, receiving and delivery scheduling — which is most of the actual work and all of the risk.

When should we call you relative to the contractor?

Before. Layout, lighting locations, and cabinetry are design decisions that get made by default on site if nobody makes them on paper first, and undoing them is the most expensive thing in a renovation.

How will we communicate during construction?

Email, phone, Zoom, and in person, Monday through Friday, 9am to 7pm. We ask that clients refrain from text messages — a renovation generates hundreds of decisions and every one of them needs to be findable later.

We book a limited number of renovations each year, and we are currently booking eight to twelve weeks out before design work begins.

Hello@himandhisdesign.com · (216) 236-3883 · 5900 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44102