A quiet room where the structure is allowed to show — an original fir beam over oxblood leather and walnut.
Maison de Thu · By Appointment

A principal-led studio — where the designer also knows how it’s built.

I · Scope

What the studio does, and where.

Full-service interior design and creative direction for single-family residences, second homes, and small hospitality projects. Four to six commissions a year. Oregon, Washington, Texas, and Massachusetts, and elsewhere by engagement.

Residential

Whole-home design and renovation. Primary residences and second homes. From the framing plan through the last cushion.

Small Hospitality

Boutique inns, tasting rooms, and short-stay properties under twenty keys. Rooms that hold up to long use.

Creative Direction

Naming, identity, and material vocabulary for adjacent ventures. Offered to a small number of clients each year.

II · The Studio at a Glance

Three ways we begin.

Every engagement starts with a single conversation, at no cost. Beyond it — the first site visit, the first drawing, the first written direction — the work has begun, and it begins under the studio’s Discovery agreement, credited in full against the commission that follows.

i.

Design Consultation

One room, or one question. Two visits, a written direction, and a list of where to buy what. For homeowners and architects who need a second set of eyes. A commissioned engagement with a written deliverable; the direction is yours to keep.

ii.

Digital Package

A complete room specified at distance. Plan, palette, FF&E schedule, and an ordering guide you can hand to a local installer. For clients outside the studio’s travel radius.

iii.

Full-Service Interiors

Whole-home design, carried from schematic drawings through installation. Limited to four to six houses a year.

III · A Partial Index

A few things we have specified, and would specify again.

Authorship before portfolio. The materials and objects that anchor the studio’s vocabulary.

Lounge chair in oxblood leather on honey-oak legs
Lounge in Oxblood LeatherCustom · made to specification
Flat-lay of leather, linen, plaster, brass, and silk on honey oak
A Working Materials BoardLeather · Linen · Plaster · Brass · Silk
Smoked Brass, HonedWorkshop edition
Glazed Tile, Deep OliveHeath Ceramics
Unlacquered brass cylinder sconce on a plaster wall
Cylinder Sconce, Aged BrassWorkshop edition
Honey Oak, Wide PlankLocal mill, Tualatin
Hand-thrown Vessel, Oxblood GlazeStudio commission
Aged TerracottaPortola Paints
Unlacquered BrassRejuvenation · Portland
IV · A Palette We Return To

Colors the studio keeps reaching for.

Not a brand palette — a working set, refined over years.

Oxblood
#6B1E1E
Honey Oak
#C9963A
Deep Olive
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Oat Linen
#E8DDC8
Ink
#1A1A1A
Aged Brass
#8B6F47
V · Commission Windows

When the studio is available.

Four to six engagements a year, opened in three windows. Conversations begin two seasons ahead.

Autumn 2026
Sep — Nov

Commissions accepted.

— Closed —
Early 2027
Jan — Mar

Accepting introductions through November.

Open · One window remaining
Spring 2027
Apr — Jun

Conversations welcome now.

Open
VI · Begin a Project

A first conversation.

The right project begins with a short letter. Tell us where, when, and what the house is asking for.

The first conversation is without charge. The studio does not produce plans, layouts, or renderings in advance of an agreement.

For press or affiliate inquiries — studio@maisondethu.com

We reply within a week.