Interior designer in West Palm Beach, Florida

West Palm Beach protects its older neighborhoods as local historic districts, among them El Cid, Flamingo Park, Grandview Heights, Old Northwood, Northwood Hills, Prospect/Southland Park, Vedado-Hillcrest and Mango Promenade. El Cid, along South Flagler Drive, grew in the 1920s land boom with Mediterranean Revival and Mission-style houses. Flamingo Park is known for Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival homes, and Grandview Heights, built from about 1910 to 1925, has an unusually strong collection of early craftsman bungalows.

The city's Historic Preservation Board and its staff review work that changes a building's exterior through a Certificate of Appropriateness, with minor items approved at staff level, and demolition needs the board's approval. Interior remodeling and paint colors are not reviewed. That leaves room for new kitchens, baths and lighting, and we design them to sit well with original floors, windows, arches and ceilings, coordinating any exterior change with the architect or contractor who files for review.

South Flagler Drive lines up condominium towers facing the lagoon and Palm Beach, from The Bristol, a 25-story building at 1100 South Flagler Drive, to South Flagler House, a 105-residence building designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. More residences sit in and around CityPlace. Condo work here runs on association rules covering drawing approval, contractor insurance, elevator bookings and working hours, and we prepare documents to meet them.

The towers look east over the water, so morning sun and glare shape window treatments and finishes, and open plans need furniture and lighting arranged around the view. Our project direction service schedules trades and deliveries with building management and keeps owners who are away informed with photos and video.

• Millwork and furniture sized for elevators and service corridors
• Window treatments for morning light off the lagoon
• Kitchen and bath plans within fixed plumbing stacks

Clematis Street was the city's early main street, and its core is a historic district of 1920s commercial buildings with Mediterranean Revival and Renaissance Revival facades. Storefront and facade changes there go through the same Certificate of Appropriateness review as houses do, while interior build-outs do not. Nearby, CityPlace, which opened in 2000 and was branded for a time as Rosemary Square and The Square, combines restaurants, shops, offices and residences.

Restaurants, retail, offices and medical suites here and across the city get the same sequence from us: a test-fit to support the lease decision, concept renderings for landlord approval, and finish, lighting and millwork documents for the licensed contractor. For a business that also needs an identity, our branding and digital design service can develop the name, signage and website in parallel.

Four small towns sit close to West Palm Beach, each its own municipality. Haverhill, incorporated in 1950, lies at the western edge of Palm Beach International Airport. Mangonia Park, founded in 1947 and named for the mango groves once farmed there, is home to a Tri-Rail station. Cloud Lake and Glen Ridge sit side by side near Southern Boulevard and I-95 and are tiny: Cloud Lake counted 134 residents in 2020, and Glen Ridge, a registered bird sanctuary of about 100 homes, counted 217.

Because each town has its own government, zoning and permitting questions start with that town rather than with the city. Whether the house sits under Glen Ridge's tree canopy or near the airport in Haverhill, the work follows the same path: a consultation at the house, a space plan and finish selections for a kitchen, bath or whole-house update, and project direction that coordinates the licensed contractor through permitting and construction.