The contractor is finished and the space still feels cold. Julia designs the last 20% after a renovation or new build in West Chester and Chester County: furniture, scale, warmth, lighting, and styling that turn a finished project into a home. Written plan in 48 hours.
The gut renovation that echoes. New kitchen, new floors, walls opened up, and now the space is so open your old furniture looks lost and the whole first floor echoes at night.
The addition nobody furnished. You added the room you always wanted. Six months later it is still mostly empty because you do not want to buy the wrong thing for a space that cost that much.
The new build that feels like a model. Everything is brand new and beautiful and it still feels like a builder's showroom, not your home. Nothing about it says you live there yet.
Contractors deliver the shell: walls, floors, cabinets, and fixtures. That is the first 80%. The furniture scale, layered lighting, warm materials, and styling that make a space feel like a home are a completely different job, and it is the 20% that gets skipped because everyone is exhausted and out of budget by the end of the build.
That gap is exactly what Julia fills. She walks into a finished-but-cold West Chester renovation or new build and plans the layer that was never designed: what furniture the room actually needs, at what scale, how to warm the palette, and how to light it so it stops feeling like a showroom.
Her studio is in Huntingdon Valley, PA, and she drives out to West Chester and across Chester County. Same-week Fresh Eyes Visits.
| Service | Cost range | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh Eyes Visit (walkthrough + written plan) | $350 to $500 | 90 min + 48 hr plan |
| Single-room finishing (fee only) | $450 to $1,500 | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Open-plan design (zoning + sourcing + install) | $3,000 to $15,000 | 4 to 12 weeks |
| Furnishing an addition | Quoted by scope | 4 to 10 weeks |
| Whole-home post-build design | Quoted by scope | 8 to 16 weeks |
Post-renovation work is mostly furniture, lighting, and styling, not construction, so the design fee is the smaller number and furnishings vary by how much you bring in. Fee credited toward any Last 20% Package.
Ready to actually finish your West Chester project?
Book My Fresh Eyes VisitIt is the finishing layer after the construction is done. The walls are up and the kitchen is in, but the space still feels cold and unfinished. Post-renovation design brings the furniture, scale, warmth, lighting, and styling that turn a finished project into a home.
Contractors deliver the shell: walls, floors, cabinets, and fixtures. Furniture scale, layered lighting, warm materials, and styling are a different job, and it is the part that makes a space feel like a home instead of a model. That gap is exactly what Julia fills.
The Fresh Eyes Visit is a fixed $350 to $500 for one room, with a written plan in 48 hours. Full post-renovation furnishing and styling is quoted by scope after the walkthrough. See the cost guide.
It overlaps. Post-renovation design is decorating aimed specifically at a space that was just built or remodeled and never furnished or warmed. If your room was not renovated and just never came together, see interior decorating in West Chester.
If you do not walk away from the Fresh Eyes Visit with clarity on what your space needs, you do not pay. Julia has never had to refund one in 26 years.
90 minutes in your renovated home. A written finishing plan in 48 hours. One room, $350 to $500. Turn a cold finished project into a home. Clarity, or you don't pay.
Book My Fresh Eyes Visit (267) 789-1428