Rittenhouse Home

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1. Stop designing your house for resale before you even live in it. Your home should reflect YOU not a hypothetical future buyer from 7 years from now.

2. If your cabinetry doesn’t go to the ceiling… I’m going to ask why. 😅Nothing cheapens a kitchen faster than awkward dead space collecting dust. Unless your ceiling height is 10’ or more and that said there is a very intentional way we design around high ceilings in a kitchen.

3. Pinterest is inspiration — not a shopping list.
The magic is in the interpretation, layering, and ex*****on.

4. Scale matters more than people realize.
One oversized chandelier can make a room.
One undersized rug can ruin it.

5. Every “timeless” room still needs tension.
Contrast. Texture. Shape. Something unexpected.

6. Your kitchen should function as beautifully as it photographs. Pretty means nothing if the layout is frustrating to live in.

7. Lighting is the entire mood..And yes… the overhead “big light” is the enemy.

8. Trends fade. Good millwork never does.

9. If you’re building custom… customize it. Please stop designing expensive homes that feel emotionally vacant.

10. A well-designed home should feel collected over time — not ordered in one late-night online shopping spiral. 🤍

Which one are you fighting me on? 👀

Interior design has become one of the most over-simplified industries online.

People see a finished room and think the job was picking a few pretty things from Pinterest. In reality, the true value is in the vision, the ex*****on, the problem solving, the sourcing, the scale, the coordination, the revisions, the budgeting, the construction details, and knowing how to make everything work together cohesively in real life — not just on a screen.

That’s also why my business model is structured differently.

I don’t operate on a traditional hourly + markup model. My clients pay a one-time design fee because we are collaboratively creating a full-scope vision together — organically and intentionally from concept through completion.