Interior Design

Timeless at the core, playful at the edges.

Quiet, classic bones with the joy placed exactly where it lands.

Let’s find your style
A calm white-oak kitchen with matte-black accents

House Studies

Every home has a story
A two-story great room with a black slat feature wall, stone fireplace, and white oak floors
New build · Whole home

The Scarlet Oak House

A whole home in her quiet-luxe register — white oak, black window frames, stone — with one two-story slat wall doing all the talking.

A calm white-oak kitchen with matte-black accents and a barn door
New build · Kitchen

The Quiet Kitchen

White oak and matte black, disciplined down to the barn-door hardware — the calm the rest of the house leans on.

Botanical wallpaper powder bath with a navy vanity
Refresh · Powder bath

The Botanical Powder Bath

The smallest room, given the boldest voice — a wink of navy and vine where no one expects it.

A tonal seafoam-sage primary bedroom, soft and quiet
Remodel · Primary bedroom

The Seafoam Bedroom

A whole room built from one soft tone, layered until quiet turned into luxury.

A marigold wingback chair given room to land
Living room

The Marigold Wingback

One chair, one color, all the joy — surrounded by enough restraint to let it land.

Designology, n.

The art-meets-heart science of creating a space that reflects you.

My Design Why

I believe a home should hug you back. Not perform for the neighbors, not audition for a magazine — hold the people who live in it, comfortably and a little joyfully. ◆ draft

Twenty years of design work taught me one reliable law: rooms go wrong when everything talks at once. So my rooms are timeless at the core and playful at the edges — a quiet, disciplined envelope, and one bold move given the floor.

“If you love it, it’s your style.”

My Signature Wink

Every project gets one — the wallpapered powder bath, the marigold wingback, the front door painted a blue you can hear. The boldest room is always the smallest room. The wink works because everything around it keeps its voice down. ◆ draft

Sarah Lavin, standing in a styled living room
About Sarah

Twenty years of design, one steady conviction: your home should feel like you.

Sarah spent two decades making things beautiful for other people’s brands before turning that eye to other people’s living rooms — a career in art direction that taught her how a single considered choice can change the whole room. ◆ draft

Home is South Dakota: a husband, two daughters, and a malshi who supervises every install.

How We Work

A clear process, a defined scope, and no surprises — except the good kind.

01 Consult We walk your space, you talk, I listen — for how you live, not just what you like.
02 Dream Concepts, palettes, and the one bold move — first-thought magic tested against twenty years of craft.
03 Source Furniture, fabric, paint, and the pieces you’d never have found — gathered, priced, and approved before anything is ordered.
04 Execute Installs, trades, and styling handled. You come home to the reveal.
Three ways to work together

Big picture. One price.

A flat, project-based fee for clear-scope projects — one number, agreed up front.

Pay as we work. And play.

Hourly, for à la carte help — paint, mixing in pieces, talking you into colorful parrots on gold.

Big style. Thoughtful spend.

A budget-based fee — you set the number, I design the plan to fit it.

Tell me about your space.

The room that isn’t working, the color you’re not sure you’re allowed to love, the house you just got the keys to — that’s exactly enough to start.