Living Space in Hinsdale
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 Hinsdale
Homes in Hinsdale
Hinsdale homes include 1920s and 1930s brick Tudors and Colonials in areas like The Highlands, often with original kitchens that feel closed off from living spaces, prompting Kitchen Design projects. Many 1950s and 1960s ranches in subdivisions such as Madison School have smaller bathrooms that homeowners look to combine or reconfigure, making Bathroom Design a common request. Newer construction from the 1980s and 1990s in areas like Woodlands often features primary bathrooms with separate, small shower and toilet rooms, which we address through Full-Home Design. We also see homes with unpainted oak trim from the 1980s that homeowners want to update with Color Consultation.
What homeowners in Hinsdale ask for
Homeowners in Hinsdale frequently engage us for Kitchen Design to update 1920s and 1930s kitchens that lack modern functionality and flow. Bathroom Design is also popular for 1950s and 1960s homes where primary bathrooms often require reconfiguration. We often work on Living Space projects in 1980s and 1990s homes, updating finishes and furnishings to create a more current feel. Basement Remodel projects are common in many Hinsdale homes to add usable living areas.
Living Space work from the studio
Led by Jennifer Peterson from the Chicago 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
[email protected]
(847) 809-7344 -
Jill Kearns
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(404) 626-6952
Hinsdale · Chicago studio
Led by Jennifer Peterson