Finishes, Fixtures, Furnishings, Function, Flow

Residential Interiors

Pairing vision with both style and substance, we create beautiful, meaningful spaces you’ll love to call your own.

Great design enhances how we feel and engage with the spaces around us. It’s easy to think the right wall color or that perfect sofa will suddenly make it all “work.” Our team knows it’s a little more complicated to make a space really sing. We’ll need to think carefully about feeling and flow long before we start finalizing all the finishes.

As the vision for your space coalesces, we back up great-looking design with technical and analytical expertise. We specify products that not only look good, but function as needed in your new and improved space. Our process is customized to your goals and needs, and we love finding creative solutions for any budget. Design is iterative, and we’ll communicate and collaborate all along the way, not to mention deal with technicalities like getting a building permit.

Every space we design is unique, and to get there, we get to know our clients really, really well. This is your space and it should feel just right, from the moment you cross the threshold.

Crow's Nest Cottage – Board & Vellum Interior Design FF&E
Adaptable Furniture

Though unassuming, the custom, handmade coffee table is designed to easily lower to the floor so it doesn't need to be moved when the Murphy bed is lowered.Crow’s Nest Cottage | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

Adaptable Furniture

Though unassuming, the custom, handmade coffee table is designed to easily lower to the floor so it doesn't need to be moved when the Murphy bed is lowered.Crow’s Nest Cottage | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

Blue Ridge View Home – Board & Vellum
Feature Island

A spacious island — outfitted with blue cabinetry to break up the white walls and wood finishes — serves as a functional and timeless centerpiece of the kitchen. Blue Ridge View Home | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

Feature Island

A spacious island — outfitted with blue cabinetry to break up the white walls and wood finishes — serves as a functional and timeless centerpiece of the kitchen. Blue Ridge View Home | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

Backyard Reading Retreat – Board & Vellum Interior Design
Floor-to-Ceiling Tile

The drama of a geometric tile pattern is balanced out with its classic black and white color palette. Backyard Reading Retreat | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

Floor-to-Ceiling Tile

The drama of a geometric tile pattern is balanced out with its classic black and white color palette. Backyard Reading Retreat | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

Laurelhurst Storybook Home – Board & Vellum
Private Sitting Room

Muted blue accents and dark leather chairs give this cozy parlor in the primary suite a relaxed, more masculine feel paired with the more feminine accents of the bedroom. Laurelhurst Storybook Home | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

Private Sitting Room

Muted blue accents and dark leather chairs give this cozy parlor in the primary suite a relaxed, more masculine feel paired with the more feminine accents of the bedroom. Laurelhurst Storybook Home | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

<small><em>Magnolia Kitchen | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.</em></small>
Everything In Its Place

Enclosed, grated, and open shelf storage offers a place for everything in this kitchen: easy access to things you want close at hand or on display, and places to tuck things away out of sight. Magnolia Kitchen | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

Everything In Its Place

Enclosed, grated, and open shelf storage offers a place for everything in this kitchen: easy access to things you want close at hand or on display, and places to tuck things away out of sight. Magnolia Kitchen | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

Design is in the details.

Can’t wait to start looking at tons of options? Or feeling overwhelmed by decisions? Either way, our interior design team is ready to help. We’ll develop a sixth sense for your style and offer as many (or as few) options as you like.

Our designers are walking encyclopedias of materials and products. With the high-level creative vision in mind and armed with everything they’ve learned about you, they’re able to hone in on what’ll make you whisper-scream yesss every time.

We’re in this together, so let us know what you need — we can make it all happen without too many day-to-day decisions on your plate, or we’d be happy to spend as much time as you like going to showrooms together in search of the perfect tile.

We’ll lay out how every detail can enhance the overall design, tie all the different elements together, and deliver on the vision for your interiors.

3D Sketch Plan with Keyed Furnishings – Residential Interiors at Board & Vellum
3D Plan with Keyed Furnishings

Lake Sammamish Interiors | Sketch by Board & Vellum team.

3D Plan with Keyed Furnishings

Lake Sammamish Interiors | Sketch by Board & Vellum team.

Sample from our platter of collaborative design.

Interior design pairs nicely with a dash of architecture or landscape design.

When designing interiors, every now and again we’ll need to move a little plumbing, or a wall, or we’ll realize that adding a window looking out to the garden would change everything.

We can quickly assess the implications of scenarios like these by effortlessly running a question by our teammates in architecture, often sitting right next to us. The same goes for landscape design — what if you decide you’d like a green wall, or a more cohesive connection between your indoor and outdoor rooms?

With a quick design consult, we can decide to go for it with our eyes open to how it will impact your project, schedule, and budget. Should you decide to add on architectural or landscape design services, you don’t have to go to the trouble of finding and interviewing a whole new team.

With in-house, multidisciplinary services at the ready, we are able to shift gears and solve problems efficiently when, or if, it makes sense for your project — rather than when it’s too late.

We also offer in-house procurement services, meaning we can take the sourcing, purchasing, and tracking of all your new furniture, fixtures, art, and accessories off your plate so you can focus on the fun stuff.

And, have you thought about where you’ll store all those new items while your home is still a construction zone? We handle storage, too, so everything stays safe and clean for installation when you’re ready for it.

Custom Homes

Designing and building a custom home from the ground up can be both deeply personal and highly complex. Our integrated design teams help you navigate the process with ease to create a home you love.

Residential Landscapes

The experience of your home doesn’t end at the walls of your house. Our site design team cohesively blends indoor and outdoor living with beautiful, functional spaces lush with life.

Ready to shake things up?

Let’s craft beautiful, functional spaces where you simply love to live.

Imagine turning a house over and giving it a good shake. Everything that comes out falls under the interior designer’s domain, but that’s not all. Creating a beautiful, functional, personalized design you really love goes way beyond furniture, art, and decorative goods. We’ll consider lighting, finishes, fixtures, sightlines, and room-to-room flow inside and out. We’re adept space planners, and since everything in and around your home is interconnected, there’s a lot more than you might think to consider in any interior design project.

We’ve built a culture of curiosity and learning that encourages everyone to weigh in on projects across disciplines, and we’re all interested in everything each studio is designing. So even though your interior refresh and remodel may be a project right up our interior design team’s alley, we can lean on our architecture team when we need fast answers on opening a wall.

And you might be surprised how often clients come to us seeking a combination of interior design and landscape architecture services — but not architecture. Whether it’s a home new to you, or you’re ready for a refresh, it’s natural to want to fix up both your interior and exterior spaces. We make it easy — we have all you need for your house, in-house.

Here are some highlights from our portfolio of residential interiors.

No matter what size or style of project, we put our hearts into our work. It is our goal to collaborate with you to create a space you’ll love.

Mount Baker Historic Craftsman - Before & After Pair – Board & Vellum
Classic Restoration Meets Modern Living

Mount Baker Historic Craftsman

This classic Craftsman home had great bones, but needed a remodel, restoration, and a refresh to take it into its next 100 years, adapted for a modern lifestyle.

Magnolia Kitchen – Board & Vellum
Expanding a Kitchen for Everyday Entertaining

Magnolia Kitchen

This updated kitchen and bar create a gathering space comfortable enough for everyday use, yet sophisticated enough for elegant dinner parties.

Kirkland Interior Furnishings Refresh – FF&E for a Private Home in Kirkland, WA – Board & Vellum
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Selecting FF&E for a Cozy & Comfortable Home

Kirkland Interior Furnishings Refresh

With an emphasis on comfort and relaxation, this foyer, office, and living and dining room refresh feels balanced and unfussy with traditional silhouettes, a modern color palette, fresh furnishings, and a unique collection of the homeowner’s personal accessories.

Laurelhurst Storybook Home – Board & Vellum
Bringing a Fairytale Home to Life

Laurelhurst Storybook Residence

A Tudor-style estate brimming with custom details inside and out, designed by a fully-integrated architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture team.

Inverness Primary Suite – Board & Vellum
Thoughtful Updates to a Bedroom, Bathroom, and Sitting Room

Inverness Primary Suite

With a soothing color palette and close attention to every functional detail, this light-filled primary suite is a relaxing, private oasis updated for stellar views and modern comfort.

Seward Park Gables – Board & Vellum
Vaulting Ceilings into Former Attic Space

Seward Park Gables

Where there once were low, flat ceilings, there are now exposed trusses and metal collar ties contributing to the architectural drama of these newly-opened gabled spaces completely transforming the character of this home.

Or, perhaps you would enjoy a couple of helpful blog posts.

Our blog isn’t written for other architects and designers. It’s designed to be a helpful, approachable resource for you.

Sigma Kappa Mu Interiors – Board & Vellum

What is FF&E Procurement?

How are you going to acquire all the amazing items your interior designer helped pick for your space? The answer might be FF&E Procurement.

A living room with a glass wall to the left and a coffee table facing  a hearth and TV at the center.

Steps of the Interior Design Process

The interior design process doesn’t have to be scary or uncertain. Equipped with the right information, you’ll navigate each phase with ease!

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