Interior designer in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

The city's club communities span several decades. BallenIsles began in 1964 as MacArthur's PGA National Golf Club, took its current name in 1989, and now holds about 1,575 residences in 33 neighborhoods. Ground broke on the PGA National Resort Community in 1978 on 2,340 acres bought from MacArthur, and its Champion course later hosted the 1983 Ryder Cup. Mirasol's 36 holes, designed by Arthur Hills and Tom Fazio, were built on former quail-hunting grounds off Hood Road.

Much of the housing in these communities was built from the late 1970s onward. We redesign these homes as complete interiors, with plans, finish schedules, lighting and custom millwork specified together, and we prepare the drawings and finish descriptions an association requests when exterior-visible changes are involved.

• Kitchen and family-room remodels oriented to the fairway or lake
• Primary suite and bath redesigns with new finish schedules
• Lighting plans for rooms under deep overhangs and covered lanais
• Custom millwork for studies, wine storage and media rooms

Avenir is a 4,752-acre community in Palm Beach Gardens with homes by several builders, including Kolter Homes, Toll Brothers, GL Homes and DiVosta, more than 2,400 acres of restored natural lands, and a town center approved for retail and office space. For a house under construction, we review the builder's finish and lighting options against a plan for the whole interior, so what the builder installs and what we add later, such as millwork, window treatments and furniture, belong to one design.

After closing, we design built-ins, closets, media walls and furniture sized to the rooms, and we present each room in 3D before orders are placed.

PGA Boulevard is the city's commercial spine, with The Gardens Mall, Downtown at the Gardens, Legacy Place, PGA Commons and Midtown along it. We design office, medical and retail interiors there: test-fits, concepts, finish and lighting plans, and 3D renderings owners use for landlord and investor approval.

New developments are reviewed by the city's Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board and approved by the City Council, and the Art in Public Places program, which dates to a 1989 ordinance, requires public art as part of larger new nonresidential projects. When commissioned art lands in a lobby or entry, we plan the interior, lighting and signage around it, and our branding and digital design service can carry the same identity into the tenant's signage and website.

Palm Beach Gardens grew quickly after 1959: about 1,800 residents arrived in little more than a year, and the city passed 6,000 by 1970. In 1961 MacArthur had a 60-foot banyan tree weighing 75 tons moved to serve as the centerpiece of the city's entrance. Houses from that first decade are among the oldest in the city.

Renovating one starts with a measured plan of what is there. We work out which walls can open with input from a licensed contractor and, where needed, an engineer, then plan the kitchen, baths, storage and lighting so the house suits the way its owners live now.