A rowhome, trinity, loft, or condo that never quite resolved? Julia finds what is off in 90 minutes and writes the fix within 48 hours. One room, $350 to $500.
JG Interior Design provides in-home residential interior design across Philadelphia, led by Julia Ginzburg, an interior designer with 26 years of experience. She works throughout the city's neighborhoods, finishing narrow rowhomes, trinities, brownstones, lofts, and condos, and most projects start with a Fresh Eyes Visit and a written plan in 48 hours.
Most homeowners here do not have a home that looks bad. They have a home that never quite resolved. You stop seeing exactly what is off, but you feel it every evening when you walk in.
A rowhome fifteen or sixteen feet wide gets daylight only at the front and back. The middle, where the stair and a bathroom land, sits in near-permanent shade.
Three or four floors that feel like separate rooms piled up, rather than one house that flows from the street to the top.
After a move or a renovation, the pieces from the last place never settled into a slimmer, taller house. In a narrow plan, a wrong choice has nowhere to hide.
Floors refinished, kitchen redone, walls freshly painted. Bare windows and one ceiling fixture keep it from ever reading as finished.
The Fresh Eyes Visit is diagnostic, not decorative. In a narrow home where every choice shows, naming the right handful of changes in the right order is the whole value.
Every room starts as a drawing, and the materials are chosen in person before a single piece is bought.
Hand-selecting stone at the yard
A one-of-a-kind stone piece
Space planned to the inch
Every room starts as a drawing
“Julia walked in and immediately saw what I couldn't after staring at the rooms for weeks. Her recommendations were specific, practical, and made the space feel completely different.”John Miller · More client stories
Pick a time online or call. Walkthroughs are booked same-week from the Huntingdon Valley studio, just north of the city line.
About 90 minutes, room by room, listening first and then naming the two or three moves per room that will finish it.
The layout, the lighting the home was missing, and the pieces worth buying or keeping, in the order that makes sense.
From there it is your call. Carry the plan out yourself over a few months, a room at a time, or bring Julia back to source and install through the Last 20% Package. You can also start with an interior design consultation in Philadelphia or, if you are outside the city or short on time, with virtual interior design.
Rather talk first? Call (267) 789-1428 or send Julia a question.
Pick a time for your visit
| Philadelphia | Typical cost | Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh Eyes Visit | $350 to $500 | 90 min + 48 hr plan |
| Hourly design (Philadelphia average) | $200 to $350 / hour | Varies by scope |
| Per-room design (fee only) | $1,500 to $5,000 | 3 to 6 weeks |
| Full room delivery | $5,000 to $25,000 per room | 6 to 16 weeks |
For the full breakdown, see what an interior designer costs.
Some of the oldest and most varied housing in the country. Two homes on the same block can need opposite things: one needs its heavy history edited back, the other needs warmth layered in where there is none.
The backbone of the city, tall and deep with light only at the ends. The work is almost always light, sight lines, and scale in a slim footprint.
One room per floor over a winding corner stair, often a few hundred square feet per level. Every inch of layout and storage counts.
Taller ceilings, heavy trim, and original mantels. Keep the character and lighten everything around it so the home does not read dark and heavy.
Open industrial shells in the river neighborhoods and cleaner condos in Center City, both needing warmth, zones, and permanence. For that lighter, current look, see contemporary interior design in Philadelphia.
The busiest room needs the same care. A thoughtful kitchen design in Philadelphia can turn a narrow galley or a tacked-on rear addition into the heart of the home.
Neighborhoods Julia serves
Design services in Philadelphia
Areas served
Julia Ginzburg has spent twenty-six years walking into city homes and naming the two or three changes per room that take a place from almost-right to genuinely finished. She works from her studio in Huntingdon Valley, just north of the city, in person and room by room, from Center City out to the river wards and the hills of the northwest.
One visit to start, not a big commitment, and no pressure to redo everything at once. Outside the city or short on time? She also offers virtual interior design. More about Julia
Yes. Julia Ginzburg works throughout the city, from Center City and the river wards to the northwest neighborhoods. She designs in person, room by room, and books in-home walkthroughs same-week from the Huntingdon Valley studio just north of the city line.
Philadelphia design fees run $1,500 to $5,000 per room before furnishings, and hourly work runs $200 to $350 an hour. The Fresh Eyes Visit is a fixed $350 to $500 for one room, with a written plan in 48 hours, the lowest-risk way to begin.
Narrow brick rowhomes, trinities, brownstones, warehouse lofts, and new-build condos. Most city homes are tall, slim, and short on natural light, so much of the work is helping those floor plans live larger and brighter without losing their character.
All of them. Julia works in Rittenhouse, Fitler Square, Society Hill, Queen Village, Bella Vista, Graduate Hospital, and Fairmount in and around Center City, in Fishtown to the north, and in Manayunk and Chestnut Hill in the northwest. If your neighborhood is not listed, ask.
Yes, and it is the most common thing homeowners ask for here. The fix is rarely knocking down a wall. It is reflecting the light you have, layering lamps and wall lights, keeping sight lines open front to back, and sizing furniture to the room, so a slim house reads wide and calm.
Julia spends about 90 minutes walking your home room by room and listening to what feels off before suggesting changes. Within 48 hours you receive a written, prioritized plan: layout, lighting, the pieces worth buying and the ones worth keeping, in order and against a budget. One room is $350 to $500, and if you do not leave with clarity, you do not pay.
Ninety minutes in your home, a written plan in 48 hours, one room $350 to $500. If you do not leave with clarity, you do not pay.
