24 July 2026Design Decisions
Two pendants or three
Not a matter of taste. The island decides it. On a long island three fixtures give the room its rhythm; on a shorter one they overwhelm it.
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How I think about a house
Design decisions, lessons learned, materials, architecture, and the occasional mistake I have made along the way. These are Sunlit Studio concepts, created to explore how a room can work before it ever becomes a real house.
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Why I use AI to explore design
The interiors here are Sunlit Studio concepts, not photographs of houses I have built. I spent years designing and building luxury homes. Here is why I work this way now, and what AI can and cannot do.
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31 July 2026Design Decisions
Color needs a reason
A house does not need one color everywhere. What matters is that the color has a job to do — warmth, depth, or holding the architecture together.
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07 August 2026Material Studies
Cool stone or warm stone?
I don’t start a kitchen with the stone. I start with the cabinetry, the lighting and the paint, and let the room tell me what the stone should be.
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14 August 2026Design Decisions
Why I’m using wallpaper again
Not because it’s back. Because it can do something paint can’t — wrap a room until the pattern becomes part of the architecture.
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Lessons From My Early Design Years
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