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View through a doorway into a sunlit hotel room — textured plaster wall in foreground, linen-dressed bed in raked afternoon light, vineyard rows visible through a far window
Willamette Valley, Oregon

Interior Design Practice

Interiors That Remember the Land.

Boutique hotel interiors sourced from the landscape around them.

Long stone corridor leading toward an arched doorway, afternoon light pulling the eye through to a courtyard beyond — the threshold between arrival and belonging
Threshold — Arrival Corridor
The Lobby

Every room begins
with a conversation
about the land.

Before a single sample is pinned to a board, we walk the property. We learn which direction the afternoon light travels, where the soil changes color, what the air smells like after rain. That knowledge becomes the brief.

Our material sourcing is specific to place: a reclaimed Douglas fir from a dismantled Willamette Valley hay barn becomes a headboard in a wine country inn. A hand-poured concrete vanity, pigmented with localite clay from the same mesa where the hotel stands, carries the geology of the site into the bathroom.

Guests don't need to know the source. They feel it — a rightness, a weight, a warmth that manufactured interiors cannot replicate.

Hand-troweled plasterReclaimed Douglas firLocalite clay concreteLinen & raw cottonOxidized copper hardwareTerracotta flooring
Hand-troweled plaster wall in warm afternoon light, texture visible in raked shadows, a single brass hook mounted at shoulder height

"Hand-troweled Venetian plaster, pigmented with ochre earth sourced from the property's lower field."

The Sycamore Inn, Paso Robles

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Thick adobe archway framing a view into a sunlit guest suite, terracotta tiles on the floor catching warm afternoon light, a linen curtain lifting in a cross-breeze
Threshold — Guest Suite
Room — Guest Suite
Boutique hotel guest suite at golden hour — reclaimed timber headboard against textured ochre plaster wall, linen-dressed bed catching raked afternoon light, vineyard rows visible through the far window

Rancho Seco Inn, Sonoma County

Where sleep feels
earned by the land.

The Rancho Seco suite was built around one idea: a person who has spent the day walking the vineyard should fall asleep as if the room continued that walk. Headboard milled from reclaimed barn timber. Plaster walls in two tones of warm ochre. Linen bedding sourced from a Portuguese mill that hasn't changed its weave in forty years.

Reclaimed barn timber headboardWillamette Valley Douglas firTwo-tone ochre plasterPortuguese linen, 200-threadForged iron bedside hardwareBeeswax-finished oak floor

"I've stayed in design hotels across four continents. This was the first time I felt the room had been made for the specific light of that specific afternoon."

Marcus Ellery

Guest, Rancho Seco Inn — October 2024

The Making

From raw acreage
to finished room.

Scroll through four stages of a guest suite at Rancho Seco, Sonoma County — converted from a working cattle barn.

Raw construction interior with exposed wooden framing, concrete subfloor, and rough window openings in warm afternoon light

01 — Raw Structure

Exposed framing, concrete subfloor, unfinished openings. The bones of the space before anything is decided.

Material sample board with wood swatches, fabric samples, plaster color chips, and stone tiles pinned to a linen background

02 — Material Board

Reclaimed Douglas fir samples. Plaster tints on card. Linen swatches. The room in miniature, before scale.

Craftsman applying hand-troweled plaster to a hotel room wall, wet plaster texture catching the work light

03 — Installation

Plaster applied in two coats, finished by hand. Timber headboard set and leveled. Hardware placed at the first attempt.

Finished boutique hotel room at dusk — linen-dressed bed in raked golden light, plaster walls glowing warm amber, agricultural landscape visible through far window

04 — Finished at Dusk

Linen curtains drawn back. Bedside lamp on. The room at the hour it was designed for — golden, still, complete.

Scroll to see each stage
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Doorway view into a warmly lit hotel restaurant — rough plaster walls, long communal table in reclaimed oak, pendant lights casting pools of amber across the room
Threshold — The Restaurant
Room — The Restaurant
Hotel restaurant interior with long reclaimed juniper communal table, rammed earth accent wall, hand-blown glass pendant lights casting warm amber light across the dining room

Mesa Verde Inn, Taos, New Mexico

A table that knows
where the food came from.

Mesa Verde's dining room was designed around its weekly farmers' market relationship. The communal table is reclaimed high desert juniper, 22 feet long, milled from a tree felled by lightning on the property. The hand-poured concrete bar top is pigmented with iron-rich clay from the same mesa. Nothing in this room is decorative — everything has a reason.

High desert juniper, lightning-felledIron-clay pigmented concrete barRammed earth accent wallHand-blown glass pendantsRaw steel shelving, brushedReclaimed brick flooring

"We sat at that table for four hours. Not because the food was slow — because leaving felt wrong. The room held us."

Sofia & James Nakamura

Guests, Mesa Verde Inn — March 2025

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Stone-framed doorway opening into a spa room with smooth plaster walls, a deep soaking tub near a window with filtered light coming through linen panels
Threshold — The Spa
Room — The Spa
Spa treatment room with smooth tadelakt plaster walls, single-block sandstone soaking tub near a window with linen panels filtering afternoon light, unglazed terracotta floor

The Sycamore, Paso Robles

Silence designed
as carefully as sound.

The Sycamore Spa was built for one purpose: to feel like stepping into the earth itself. Walls finished in raw tadelakt — the ancient Moroccan lime plaster that becomes waterproof as it cures. A soaking tub carved from a single block of local sandstone. The only sound is what comes through the window: wind in the olive grove, birdsong, the occasional bell from the property's working goat herd.

Raw tadelakt lime plasterSingle-block sandstone soaking tubOlive wood massage tableUnglazed terracotta floor tilesSpring-fed water systemDried lavender sachets, estate-grown

"I walked in and sat on the floor for ten minutes before doing anything. The room asked for that. It deserved it."

Dr. Amara Osei

Guest, The Sycamore — January 2025

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