Living Space in Winnetka
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 Winnetka
Homes in Winnetka
Winnetka features a variety of homes, including 1920s and 1930s brick and stone Tudors in areas like the Indian Hill Estates, often with smaller, enclosed kitchens that we update with Kitchen Design. We also work on 1950s and 1960s ranches and split-levels in the Crow Island neighborhood, where we often address primary bathrooms with outdated layouts through Bathroom Design. Many homes built in the 1980s and 1990s near Skokie Lagoons have primary suites with separate, small shower and toilet rooms, which we combine into more spacious layouts. We also see many homes with unfinished basements that are ideal for Basement Remodel projects.
What homeowners in Winnetka ask for
Homeowners in Winnetka often request Kitchen Design for their 1920s and 1930s homes, seeking to open up galley kitchens. We frequently provide Bathroom Design for 1950s and 1960s ranches to update layouts and finishes. Many projects involve a Full-Home Design for properties built in the 1980s, updating multiple living spaces and primary suites. Basement Remodel projects are also common in homes of various eras.
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
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Jill Kearns
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(404) 626-6952
Winnetka · Chicago studio
Led by Jennifer Peterson