It's time to finally reveal the SW Modern kitchen! It's been awhile, (we've had a very busy start to the fall, hurray!) but we're so excited to share this amazing space with you! We love this light & sleek kitchen for it's super efficient layout and warm, cozy feel! Here is a bit of a recap from our Before: SW Modern Kitchen & Preliminary Design post. The clients had thought about expanding the footprint of their kitchen, but in the end decided they liked the cozy feel of it.

At Wise Design our next favorite neutral paint color after a clean & bright white wall, is a calming, soothing grey wall. Grey is a paint color we return to time and time again, when we want a bit of contrast with the trim color, particularly in historic homes. We have a few shades of grey that we return to over & over again, because they're versatile with just the right undertones. Besides these go-to greys, we have a few that we love and have yet to use on a project, but in

Here in Portland, Oregon we love our greenery in all forms! The Pacific Northwest is known for it's rainy, wet climate (in fact it's considered a temperate rainforest), so the region is filled with lush, green plants year 'round. The natural green palette of Portland, is all part of the city's beauty! When we are designing a space, we always add a touch of green to bring that natural beauty inside. Plants give life to a space (literally)! If you are wondering how to instantly

If you've followed along on our journey of space planning & designing the Funshine Girl's Room, then you'll be excited to see the final install & photos! We're so excited to share the behind-the-scenes story of our install AND reveal all the final photos! Just to recap, we introduced the project and shared the backstory in this post. Next, we shared the before photos and talked space planning for the room in this post. Lastly, we shared the design, mood boards and renderings

Here in Portland Oregon, we are very fortunate to have the most beautiful summers! After raining pretty much solidly for 9 months out of the year, Summertime in the beautiful Pacific Northwest is lush and inviting! The sun finally graces the land with it's glorious rays and with the longer days and warm nights, Oregonians are outside in full force. Image Source: The Roof Deck at Revolution Hall Be it in the rivers, ocean beaches, mountain trails or city parks; Oregonians take

Our first task when we started the SW Modern Home project was to help furnish the living room and dining room area. The family was getting ready for a big event: their son's Bar Mitzvah and they wanted help with furnishing and styling the room for the party. The family had already worked with Fieldwork Design on some of the furnishings & finishes in the space, and the clients liked these pieces, however they still needed some finishing touches; artwork for both the living and

So excited to show off the final reveal photos for our children's consignment boutique, Cloverdilly! And before you view the below images, just take a minute to remember that our client pulled this WHOLE place off by herself in less than 30 days! She is our hero. For a refresher: here are our behind-the-scenes posts for inspiration, before photos (SUCH a difference!), space planning, furnishings, and schematic design. You can also see the final reveal photos on our website. R

This week we are excited to introduce you to an amazing project - updating this beautiful mid- century home for a lovely family in the SW Hills of Portland! Our SW Modern Home was just featured in DWELL and now we're delighted to share each step of our design story for this spectacular project!!! SW Modern Kitchen: Photo by Meagan Larsen We first met this sweet family two and a half years ago, when they approached Wise Design to help them with some renovations and furnishings

We've been talking about our work for a children's clothing boutique in NW Portland. Today we show the Schematic design! But what does Schematic design mean? If you've followed along with this series, you'll remember how we got here. (If you want to catch up or are just joining, here are the posts for inspiration, before photos, space planning and furniture sourcing.) For Wise Design, our work is done in several stages: 1. Conceptual This phase includes inspiration images or

Now comes the fun part! Just to recap on the design story for the Funshine Girl's room thus far: a few weeks ago, we introduced this super fun little girl's room we are designing for our long time client's daughter. She sent us her likes and interests, and we pulled together some inspiration photos. Her favorite colors are: pink, turquoise and purple and her favorite things are: horses, butterflies, fairies, sunshine and swimming pools! Image Source: Four Cheeky Monkeys We al

A huge announcement for Wise Design this week! Dwell, the holy grail of design publications, has featured our SW Modern Home and we are THRILLED. Check that one off bucket list! photo by Meagan Larsen We are excited to show off this incredible home and so thankful to Dwell for featuring it. It was a long road for our clients (check out those before & after photos!) We know they love the 'afters' as much as we do! photo by Meagan Larsen We'll be featuring the home on our blog,

We love love love designing for kids. Hands down children's spaces are the most creative, sweet, daring and just plain fun! For our children's consignment boutique, we knew that we needed to source a general hanging + shelf system to display the store's inventory. We also needed to find baskets and bins to hold & display accessories. IRL, budgets are everything. We can look at custom-made, gold-plated, antique, one-of-a-kind whatever all day long but often, that's just not wh