A home should hold your life, beautifully.
Haven is a Portland interior design studio for residences, kitchens, and full furnishings — rooms built from oak, wool, and good light, finished to look inevitable rather than installed.
- 140+
- Residences designed
- 14
- Years in Portland
- 70%
- Clients who return
Recent work
Rooms
Studio philosophy
A room is finished when it looks like it happened over years, not weeks.
Engagements
Ways to work together
Four shapes of engagement, each with a principal designer in the room and the budget on the table.
Full-service design
Whole residences, from architectural finishes to the last lamp. One design language, one budget conversation, and one team from first walk-through to install day.
Kitchens & baths
The two hardest-working rooms, designed around how you cook and wake. Cabinetry drawn to the millimeter, stone chosen at the yard, hardware you will still like in ten years.
Furnishing & styling
For rooms that are built but bare: furniture, textiles, lighting, and art, sourced from our workrooms and a few dozen makers we trust. Installed in a week, layered to look like a decade.
Design consultation
Three hours in your home with a principal designer. You end with a prioritized plan, paint and material direction, and honest advice on what not to spend money on.
Behind the work
The studio
Haven is a six-person studio on North Mississippi Avenue — designers, a joiner, and a procurement lead who has rescued more than one install week. We work in a tight material language: white oak and walnut, wool and linen, plaster, and unlacquered brass that is allowed to darken. Trend pieces have to earn their way in; most don't.
We take twelve to fifteen projects a year, so a principal designer is in every meeting, every site visit, and every install. Our test for a finished room is simple — the family stops treating it carefully.
The process
From first walk-through to install day
The walk-through
We meet in the space and listen more than we talk — how you cook, where the light lands, what the room refuses to do. You get honest first reactions on the spot.
Concept & materials
One clear direction, not three to choose between: plans, palettes, and physical samples you can hold — oak, wool, plaster, stone — with a transparent budget beside them.
The quiet middle
Ordering, lead times, trades, and site visits, managed weekly by your designer. You get a short Friday note instead of forty supplier emails.
Install day
Everything arrives, hangs, and settles in a choreographed day or two — beds made, art hung, shelves styled. We hand back the keys and let the room start its life.
Living with the work
“Two years in, the kitchen still stops me on the stairs some mornings. Nothing in it is precious and nothing has failed — which I now understand was the entire point.”
“They talked us out of the expensive sofa and into rebuilding the window seat, and they were right. Every gathering ends with six people wedged into it.”
“Install day felt like a magic trick: we came home to made beds, hung art, and our own books already on the shelves. My daughter asked if we were allowed to live like this now.”
FAQ
Asked before most projects
Budgets, timelines, and whose taste wins.
What does full-service design cost?
Design fees start around $25,000 for a whole residence, with furnishings and construction budgeted separately and transparently — most Haven projects land between $150,000 and $600,000 all-in. We will tell you in the first call whether your budget and your wishlist can be friends.
How long does a project take?
A furnishing project runs three to five months, most of it lead times; kitchens six to nine including construction; full residences nine to eighteen. We would rather quote you the real number than the nice one.
Will our home end up looking like 'a Haven project'?
It will feel like one — calm, layered, material — but it should look like you. We start from what you own and love, and we have built rooms around a grandmother's rug more than once.
Do you work outside Portland?
Regularly in Hood River, Bend, and on the Oregon coast, and a couple of times a year farther afield for full-service projects. Travel is scoped plainly in the proposal, never discovered on an invoice.
Can we do just one room?
Yes — through the consultation or a furnishing engagement. One honestly finished room tends to be more satisfying than a whole house of compromises, and it is how many of our full-service clients began.
New projects
Start with a conversation.
Tell us about the house, the rooms that aren't working, and how you actually live in them. We'll come walk it with you — first meetings are unhurried and obligation-free.
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