Denver Design Group

When a room feels off, check the scale before you change the style.

A rug that stops short of the sofa makes the seating float. Art that's too small for the sofa looks like an afterthought. A pendant that's too narrow for the table gets lost.

A few guidelines to start from: every seat gets its front legs on the rug. Art runs about two-thirds the width of the furniture beneath it. A fixture over a table measures half to two-thirds of the table's width.

Size first. Then style.

Denver Design Group | Denver, CO

Seven years ago, we refreshed this Aurora home. This year, the client came back for something completely different, and we didn't touch the kitchen layout.

The perimeter cabinets kept their footprint and were refaced in stained white oak with reeded doors. The island went to a black painted finish that changes the whole room without changing a single wall.

The room looks new. The decisions underneath it held up.

Denver Design Group | Aurora, CO

Three statement walls.
Three completely different directions.

A statement wall doesn't have to mean bold color.

It can be floor-to-ceiling natural stone that gives a fireplace the visual weight it was missing. Textured grasscloth against restored millwork. Handmade tile in a deep green that sets the direction for the entire room.

Different materials.
Different personalities.
Same principle: give the room one place to make an impression.

Denver Design Group

When a client first contacts us, we ask them to show us the room they've stopped using.

Not the room they want to renovate.
The one they've stopped seeing because living with it has become easier than dealing with it.

That room tells us more about what the house needs than any inspiration board ever could. It's usually where the layout problem lives. Or the light problem. Or the decision made twenty years ago that never quite worked and quietly shaped everything around it.

The wish list comes later.
The room that isn't working tells us where to start.

Denver Design Group

Warm metals or cool metals?

It's one of the first questions that comes up when we're narrowing down the details of a room.

Warm metals like brass, gold, and unlacquered bronze add richness and tend to develop more character over time. Cool metals like brushed nickel and chrome keep things crisp and contemporary.

Both can work beautifully. The key is knowing which direction fits the room.

Which do you lean toward?

Denver Design Group

“Now the rest of our family has bathroom envy.”

We’ll take that.

This was the only room in the house that hadn’t been renovated when the family bought their flipped ranch house. It had been on the list for years, but after talking with contractors, they realized they needed a design to work from first.

Kristina and Alexis helped them work through the tile, lighting, fixtures, and all the details that can make a small bathroom feel anything but small.

“Kristina and Alexis do a great job of guiding without dominating.”

That line says a lot about how we want our clients to feel throughout the design process. They needed our expertise, but the finished room still reflects their preferences and taste.

Denver Design Group | Park Hill, Denver

Every project has one.

The room that wasn't the main event. The one that wasn't driving the remodel. And then it becomes the room everyone talks about.

A basement bar. A powder room. A child's bathroom designed to grow with her.

None of these spaces were the reason the clients called. Each one became an opportunity to do something unexpected.

Denver Design Group

September is when it gets real.

All summer, you noticed the kitchen that doesn't flow. The bathroom nobody wants to use. The living room that never quite came together. You adapted around it. You had other things going on.

Now the light is changing, you're spending more time at home, and the things that weren't working in June still aren't working.

This is when many of our best projects begin. Not with a full plan, but with one conversation about what's not working and why.

Reach out. We'd love to chat.
Denver Design Group

The 1970s had a very specific idea of what a kitchen should look like.

This Centennial home held onto that idea for fifty years.

The layout was closed off. The finishes belonged to a different era of living. The clients weren't looking to preserve what wasn't working. They were ready to start over.

The result is a kitchen that opens to the rest of the home, works for the way they live now, and feels like it belongs there.

Denver Design Group | Transformed 70s Kitchen, Centennial