Virginia Manor Colonial

A Colonial Revival at the top of Mt. Lebanon, furnished to its own weight. The paneling is walnut — original to the house — and the ceilings are coffered throughout: bones that resist light-handed treatment. Furnishings were chosen at the scale the rooms asked for: dark marble at the hearth, tufted leather in the library, warm textile in the sleeping rooms. The kitchen is new and unembarrassed about it. Nothing was added that the architecture didn't already imply.

The Mansion on N Highland

One of the surviving Queen Anne houses on Millionaires' Row, Highland Park. Stone, brick, and original bargeboard — all kept. Time had reduced the interior without touching the bones. The scale was restored where it had been lost: original millwork cleaned and left; the interior furnished to the house's own proportion rather than to current taste. Nothing was added that the house didn't ask for. The studio works at the pace a house like this asks for.

Glendale Chapel

A nineteenth-century chapel in Scott Township, made habitable without becoming generic. The octagonal stained glass stayed. The pews went. An oak plank floor was laid, a white quartz counter set in the alcove, matte black fixtures throughout. Every decision was measured against whether it let the room keep being the room. The stained glass is still the first thing guests photograph — before the beds, before the kitchen, before anything installed since the chapel was built.

Friendship Ave

Six units on a corner in Bloomfield, taken to studs and finished under one hand. Each apartment came back with clawfoot baths, marble coffee tables, and panel moulding selected room by room — the set reads as related without being identical. The building opened the month the last unit came online. Six different starting conditions, one design signature, one deadline. Little Italy as a short-term hospitality set, made without flattening what the neighborhood already was.

Beechview

A large old house in Beechview, taken to studs and brought back. Interior, exterior, and design came out of the same hand and landed at the same moment: quartz counters, matte black fixtures, graphic wallpaper chosen room by room. The bones stayed; everything around them was remade. The rooms run at the scale Beechview actually is — Pittsburgh working-class proportion, not an approximation of something larger. It has let without a gap since the week the last fixture went on.