Living Space in Kenilworth

A living room with a stone fireplace, a large TV, two light-colored sofas, a dark wood coffee table, and two windows with wreaths.

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 Kenilworth

Homes in Kenilworth

Kenilworth features many 1920s and 1930s brick and stone homes, often with smaller, enclosed kitchens that homeowners now want opened up to living spaces. We often help with Kitchen Design in these homes, creating more open layouts. Many homes in Kenilworth, including those built in the 1950s and 1960s, have basements with lower ceilings that benefit from our Basement Remodel service, making them feel more spacious and usable. We also see many 1980s and 1990s two-story homes with primary bathrooms that are split into two small rooms, prompting requests for Bathroom Design to create a single, larger space.

What homeowners in Kenilworth ask for

Homeowners in Kenilworth frequently engage us for Kitchen Design to update 1920s and 1930s kitchens, often removing walls to connect them with dining areas. Many also seek Bathroom Design for primary suites in 1980s and 1990s homes, combining smaller, separated spaces into one larger, more functional bathroom. Basement Remodel projects are common in 1950s and 1960s homes to improve the usability of lower-level spaces. We also provide Full-Home Design for larger renovations in Kenilworth's classic homes.

Living Space work from the studio

Inverness Living Space Refresh Inverness, IL

Led by Jennifer Peterson from the Chicago studio

Jennifer Peterson and Jill Kearns, the sisters behind J. Peterson Design

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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