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Living Space in Lake Zurich

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 Lake Zurich

Homes in Lake Zurich

Lake Zurich homeowners live in 1970s and 1980s two-story homes in subdivisions like Old Mill Grove, often with primary bathrooms split into two small rooms. Many 1990s and 2000s homes in developments such as Wynstone feature kitchens with closed-off layouts, separate from living areas. We often provide Bathroom Design to combine those smaller spaces into one cohesive room. For homes built in the 1990s and 2000s, our Kitchen Design service updates layouts and finishes.

What homeowners in Lake Zurich ask for

Homeowners in Lake Zurich often seek Kitchen Design to update 1990s and 2000s kitchens with outdated finishes and layouts. Many 1970s and 1980s homes in the area benefit from Full-Home Design to address entire floor plans. We also frequently provide Bathroom Design to reconfigure primary bathrooms in homes from the 1970s and 1980s that have separated toilet and shower areas.

Living Space work from the studio

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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Lake Zurich · Chicago studio

Led by Jennifer Peterson