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If you are considering a designer, you likely already have an eye for beauty.
A remodel, however, is close to permanent, and every decision stays with you for years. An interior designer is the catalyst that turns your vision into the home you have imagined. From staying within budget to choosing materials that support the way you live, and from planning every measurement to coordinating the trades who bring it to life, a designer's role is to guide you to the right decisions the first time around.
Perhaps you want to refresh your guest room to create a warm, inviting space. A designer can put together a scheme that may appear simple, yet embodies texture and a restrained color palette, and advise you on where to save or splurge (hint: it's drapery).
I deliver three quarters of a home. The rest arrives with time: the familiar feel of a vanity pull, the shadows of leaves falling across the rug after lunch in November, the soft patina that forms on a kitchen faucet. A home only becomes a home once it is lived in.
More coming soon.
In the meantime, you can see some of my work on Instagram at @harvinpauldesign.
Two ways to work together, depending on the scale of your project.
Complete design for a kitchen, bathroom or home extension, from the first concept to the final installation, working alongside your architect and contractor where needed.
I design the room, then source, order and track every item, and I am there when the truck arrives.
A complete design for you to carry out at your own pace.
I do not apply one signature look to every home. Each design is built around how you live and what you love, so the style is unique to you.
No. The strongest rooms combine new pieces with things you already own and value. I will only suggest replacing something if it does not serve the space.
Yes. I can recommend trades I trust or work with your own contractor, and I remain involved through construction.
Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Sunnyvale and Palo Alto. If your home is a little further out, please ask.
I have always loved unique interiors.
I am drawn to unusually shaped faucets, asymmetry, and charming, quirky homes: homes that brim with personality, and spaces that hold stories. My favourite thing in House & Garden as a teenager was a wire basket, shaped like a chicken, holding eggs.
I love the quaint warmth of an English kitchen merged with the expansive indoor-outdoor living of California, and Italian decadence with Scandinavian quiet. Stained glass where appropriate, and never visible LED strip lighting. Airy family rooms that are crisp at breakfast and moody at sundown. Luxury, to me, is natural light, effortless flow, the right storage in the right places, and a view of nature, with plants outside the window and trees inside the home.
I am self-taught, with a formal education in medicine.
My work began with the remodel of my own home. When the final piece was in place, I realised how much I missed the process. Harvin Paul Design grew from that.
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