Interior designer in Dallas & Oak Cliff.
Oak Cliff and the neighborhoods around central Dallas hold some of the area's oldest housing stock: homes built when rooms were smaller, closed off, and organized around a formal front-of-house. Most of my work here is renovation, taking a house with real character and reworking the parts that no longer fit how a family actually lives, without losing the parts that made you buy it in the first place.
Cavender · Dallas, TX · Remodel + Addition
Renovation-friendly bones.
The Cavender project came to me as a full renovation and addition on an Oak Cliff home with good structure but a layout that no longer worked: closed-off rooms, a kitchen cut off from the rest of the house, and a footprint that needed to grow to fit the family living in it. That's a common starting point out here.
Dallas proper covers a wider mix, from established neighborhoods with mid-century ranches to newer infill construction. Highland Park and University Park are part of that mix too, where work often means planning around HOA and architectural review. Whichever it is, I stay close to every finish and layout decision myself, because a renovation on an older home usually turns up something the original drawings didn't account for, and someone needs to be able to make a call on the spot.
Brittany was a joy to work with. She coordinated the entire project with great precision and proficiency, and she has my highest recommendation.
Good to know
Yes, and it's a lot of what I do. Oak Cliff has a strong stock of homes built well before open-concept layouts were standard, so the design work is often about updating flow and function while keeping what makes the house feel original.
I build permitting time into the schedule from the start and coordinate with your contractor, or mine, on what the city requires for the scope of work. It varies by project, so we walk through it specifically once we know what we're doing.
Yes. Dallas and Oak Cliff cover a wide range of neighborhoods, and I work across them. If you're close to central Dallas, I'm likely already driving your direction.
That's usually the goal. Whether it's trim profiles, window proportions, or a floor plan that respects the original bones, I try to make additions and updates feel like they belong to the house rather than sit on top of it.
Have a Dallas or Oak Cliff home in mind?
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