Our work

Design
concepts.

This is the aesthetic we design toward, the standard we hold, and the way we think a Santa Cruz home should feel. Warm, quiet, and built out of materials that get better as they age.

Every one of these decisions — the light, the plan, the materials, how a room meets the outdoors — is one we make with you, priced as it is drawn.

Jennifer has been designing homes in this county since 2016. Built work from Bebe Grace Interiors and Dwelling is available on request.

An open living room with white oak built-ins, a plastered fireplace and steel sliding doors opening to a coastal terrace.

01 / Whole-home remodels

Changing how
a house lives.

Much of this county's housing stock was built decades ago — beach cottages, mid-century tracts, mountain cabins that quietly became full-time homes. Small dark rooms, no relationship to the yard, and systems that are past due.

A whole-home remodel is rarely about finishes. It is about removing the walls that stopped making sense, getting light into the middle of the plan, and connecting the living space to the outdoors, which is the entire reason people live here.

It is also where design and construction are most entangled, and where an integrated team saves the most money.

An entry hall with white oak floors, plaster walls and a tall steel window casting light across the floor.

Light through the middle of the plan

A covered terrace at dusk with a glowing outdoor fireplace and open steel doors to a warmly lit interior.

The indoor–outdoor connection

These are the two rooms you touch every single day, and the two rooms where the difference between competent and considered is most obvious.

Our bias: spend on the things you cannot change later. Layout, light, ceiling height, where the window goes, how the counter meets the cabinet. Hardware can be swapped. A badly placed sink cannot.

We work in materials that are honest about aging — honed stone, rift-sawn oak, unlacquered brass that darkens with use rather than pretending it never happened.

02 / Kitchens & baths

The rooms you
use every day.

Kitchen

A limestone wet room with a floating white oak double vanity, brass tapware and a freestanding tub.

Primary bath

A close detail of a mitred limestone countertop edge meeting white oak cabinetry with a slim brass pull.

Where the stone meets the oak

A close detail of an unlacquered brass wall-mounted tap over an integrated limestone basin.

Brass, left to age

03 / ADUs

Income, family,
flexibility.

An accessory dwelling unit is probably the strongest thing you can add to a Santa Cruz property right now. Rental income in a market with almost none. A place for a parent, or a kid who wants to stay in the county they grew up in.

It is also the project most likely to die on a technicality. Slope, septic capacity, panel size, access for a concrete truck, protected trees. Those facts decide whether an ADU pencils, and they should be found in week one, not month nine.

We start every ADU conversation with feasibility, not design. Sometimes the honest answer is that your lot will not carry it, and you deserve to hear that before you pay for drawings.

Read: what an ADU really costs here