Living Space in Decatur
Our Living Space service designs and documents the interior architecture of your home's main living areas. We provide the detailed plans and specifications for your contractor to build, ensuring your living spaces are considered and comfortable.
What we do
Our process begins with a Design consultation to understand your project. We then provide a Presentation of your design, showing how your living spaces will come together. We develop Construction documents, including detailed drawings for your contractor. Material selections specify all finishes and fixtures for these areas. We conduct Jobsite inspections during construction and add Finishing touches to complete your living spaces.
Who it suits
This service suits homes in Chicago, Southwest Michigan, and Atlanta. It is for homeowners with existing single-family homes, townhouses, or lofts who want to redesign their living rooms, family rooms, or dining rooms. This service is for clients who do not need a full-home design.
Questions
What is included in the Living Space service?
The Living Space service includes a design consultation, presentation of your design, construction documents, material selections, jobsite inspections, and finishing touches for your main living areas.
What do I receive as a client for my Living Space project?
You receive detailed drawings and specifications as part of our Construction documents and Material selections. These documents guide your contractor in building out your redesigned living spaces.
How does this service work with my contractor?
We provide the design and documentation, including detailed drawings and material specifications, for your contractor. We also conduct Jobsite inspections to ensure the design is implemented as intended.
How is Living Space different from Full-Home Design?
Living Space focuses on specific main living areas like living rooms or dining rooms. Full-Home Design addresses the entire home, including kitchens, baths, and all other spaces.
Is Living Space the same as Furnishing & Styling?
No, Living Space designs the interior architecture and fixed elements of your living areas. Furnishing & Styling focuses on selecting and arranging furniture, art, and accessories within existing spaces.
In Decatur
Homes in Decatur
Decatur homeowners often live in 1920s and 1930s bungalows in neighborhoods like Oakhurst and Winnona Park, where small, enclosed kitchens frequently prompt Kitchen Design projects to open up the space. Many homes in Clairemont and Great Lakes Estates, built in the 1950s and 1960s, feature primary bathrooms with outdated layouts that benefit from Bathroom Design and space planning. Later homes in Medlock Park, from the 1970s and 1980s, often have basements with low ceilings, making Basement Remodel projects common to improve functionality. We also assist with Furnishing & Styling for homes across these eras, ensuring new pieces complement existing architecture.
What homeowners in Decatur ask for
Homeowners in Decatur frequently engage us for Kitchen Design to modernize 1920s and 1930s bungalow kitchens, often involving removing walls to create more open living spaces. Bathroom Design projects are also common in 1950s and 1960s homes, where we reconfigure layouts to maximize space and update fixtures. Many requests involve Full-Home Design for older residences that require comprehensive updates to multiple living spaces and bedrooms. We also provide Furnishing & Styling for homes built in the 1970s and 1980s, updating interiors to reflect contemporary tastes.
Living Space work from the studio
Led by Jill Kearns from the Atlanta studio
About the studio
Two sisters, one studio
Jennifer Peterson founded J. Peterson Design in 2008 and leads our work in Chicago and Southwest Michigan. Her sister, Jill Kearns, leads the Atlanta studio. Together, we design homes that feel considered and beautiful, but also comfortable, functional, and personal to the people who live in them.
Although we work in different cities, we operate as one studio. We talk through plans, share ideas, question each other, and bring another experienced set of eyes to the decisions that matter. Being sisters makes that collaboration especially natural — there is a shorthand, an honesty, and a shared standard that has been there long before the studio.
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Contact
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Jennifer Peterson
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Jill Kearns
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(404) 626-6952
Decatur · Atlanta studio
Led by Jill Kearns