Your contractor built a beautiful Main Line kitchen or addition and left. Now the rooms around it feel half-finished, and the new work doesn't quite connect to the old house. Julia designs the last twenty percent, for a fixed fee, with a written plan in 48 hours.
The stunning new kitchen, the awkward everything-else. The renovation nailed the kitchen. Now the family room beside it looks tired and mismatched, and the beautiful new space makes the old ones look worse.
The addition that reads "tacked on." The new wing is well built and somehow doesn't feel like part of the house. Proportion, materials, and light never got connected to the original rooms.
Empty, echoing, and you've stalled. The dust settled months ago and the rooms are still bare. You are exhausted from decisions and cannot face furnishing on your own.
Construction and design are two different jobs. A contractor builds what is drawn: walls, cabinets, floors. Furniture scale, lighting layers, color, and how the new space flows into the rest of the house are design decisions, and no contractor makes them for you.
On the Main Line, the gap is sharper. A renovated space in a hundred-year-old stone colonial has to reconcile new and old: matching proportion, warming modern finishes, and connecting a fresh kitchen to rooms that have not changed since the 1920s.
That reconciliation is the last twenty percent. It is the difference between a house that had work done and a house that feels whole. Julia's studio is in Huntingdon Valley, PA, a short drive to the Main Line.
| Service | Cost range | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh Eyes Visit (walkthrough + written plan) | $350 to $500 | 90 min + 48 hr plan |
| Hourly design (Main Line average) | $175 to $300 / hour | Varies by scope |
| Single room finish (design + sourcing + placement) | $3,000 to $18,000 | 4 to 12 weeks |
| Whole-floor post-reno (multiple connected rooms) | $15,000 and up | 8 to 16 weeks |
Post-renovation work is mostly design and sourcing, since the construction is already done. Main Line homes run at the top of the regional range. Fresh Eyes Visit fee is credited toward any Last 20% Package.
Renovation done and the room still isn't? Let's finish it.
Book My Fresh Eyes VisitYes. Finishing rooms after a renovation is one of Julia's most common Main Line calls. The contractor delivers a beautiful kitchen or addition, and the rooms around it feel half-done. Julia closes that gap.
Because construction and design are different jobs. A contractor builds what is drawn. Furniture scale, lighting layers, color, and how the new space connects to the rest of the house are design decisions no contractor makes.
It starts with a fixed-price Fresh Eyes Visit at $350 to $500 and a written plan in 48 hours. Full room design runs $3,000 to $18,000 including sourcing and placement. See the local cost guide.
Yes. Connecting a new addition or renovated space to a historic Main Line home is exactly what Julia solves: matching proportion, materials, and light so the new work reads as part of the original house.
Julia usually comes in after the construction is done, but she is glad to coordinate on finishes and lighting while a project is still underway. See interior decorator on the Main Line.
90 minutes in your renovated room. A written plan in 48 hours. One room, $350 to $500. The last twenty percent that makes it whole. Clarity, or you don't pay.
Book My Fresh Eyes Visit (267) 789-1428