Custom Home Builds

A sliding wooden door partially opens to reveal a home office with a built-in desk, shelves with decorative items, and a white desk chair.
Front entrance of a modern house with wooden exterior, steps leading to glass doors, and warm interior lighting, surrounded by a garden with bushes and flowers, during dusk.

Our integrated design services reflect our belief that exceptional homes are designed from the inside out. Designing a home is a collaborative process. At Stone Design Associates, we partner with homeowners, architects, builders, and craftsmen from the earliest planning stages through final installation, ensuring that every decision contributes to a cohesive, functional, and beautifully executed home.

One of the greatest advantages of engaging an Interior Designer early is having a trusted advocate before the design process even begins. We help clients evaluate and assemble the right team for their project, offering guidance in selecting architects, builders, and specialized consultants whose experience, communication style, and design philosophy align with the client's vision, priorities, and investment.

Once the team is in place, we continue to represent our clients' interests throughout the design and construction process. Working collaboratively with the architect and builder, we help translate lifestyle goals into thoughtful design solutions, coordinate the countless decisions required along the way, and ensure that the original vision remains consistent from the first sketch through final installation.

Our integrated design services can include:

  • Lifestyle programming and needs assessment

  • Collaboration with the architect during architectural planning

  • Space planning and furniture layouts

  • Kitchen, bath, and custom cabinetry design

  • Interior architectural detailing, including ceiling treatments, fireplaces, built-ins, and millwork

  • Lighting design and plumbing fixture selection

  • Interior finish selections, including flooring, tile, stone, paint, wall coverings, and decorative materials

  • Custom furniture, upholstery, window treatments, and soft goods

  • Decorative lighting, hardware, and accessory selections

  • Artwork consultation and placement

  • Procurement and project coordination

  • Construction administration, site visits, and collaboration with the builder and trades

  • Furniture installation and final styling

Throughout the process, we serve as both your creative partner and your advocate—bringing together architecture, interiors, furnishings, and lifestyle into one unified vision. Our role is to anticipate challenges, answer questions, provide trusted expertise, and ensure that each decision contributes to the integrity of the home as a whole.

Our goal is not simply to design beautiful rooms, but to create a home that functions effortlessly, reflects your unique way of living, and remains as relevant and inviting years from now as the day you move in.

Let’s create something beautiful together.

We believe one of our most important roles is serving as our clients' advocate—helping assemble the right team, asking the right questions, and ensuring that every design decision supports both the architecture and the way the home will be lived in.

-Janet Stone

Interior view of a modern home door with wood panels, black handle, and glass panels on either side, leading into a living room with a wooden wall and art pieces, and decorative vases with a wooden bowl on a marble counter.
Modern fireplace with a white concrete mantel and firewood inside, above a wooden slatted wall with a decorative mirror, in a contemporary living room with a striped rug and wood flooring.