Studio Elroy, Portland, Oregon

Renovating a home means making thousands of decisions.

A Portland design studio publishing residential design guides and tools. Consultations are available by inquiry.

A light-filled great room with warm oak ceiling, steel windows, and a quiet fireplace
Great RoomThree-Layer Lighting
What's available

Two ways to work with the studio.

Self-directed through digital guides and tools, or one-on-one through a consultation.

Available now

01 / Lab

The Design Lab

Guides, tools, and frameworks for homeowners doing renovations on their own. Each one solves a specific problem the studio sees clients hit again and again. Digital downloads, no subscriptions.

By inquiry

02 / Studio

Consultations

One-on-one sessions for layout, lighting, materials, and renovation planning. Engagements are scoped by inquiry, and the studio takes on a small number of projects at a time.

A sage-green kitchen with brass fittings, marble counters, and herringbone oak floors at dusk
Kitchen, in SageMaterials · Light · Layout
Why the studio exists

A renovation is a hundred decisions made once. The order is the design.

It is not uncommon for homeowners to take on a renovation having never done one before. They walk into the project with hundreds of questions and very little that answers them in one place. Where do you start? What gets decided first? What can wait?

The Design Lab is where the studio's methodology gets written down and made available without a retainer. The Lighting Calculator is one of those tools, free to use as many times as you need.

Notes from the studio

The studio letter.

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