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Interior designer in Austin, Texas
Sojourn Design House has called Austin home since 2018 — a luxury interior design studio shaped by Hill Country light, lake water, and the way this city insists on living outdoors.
Service Area · Home Base
Sojourn Design House has called Austin home since 2018 — a luxury interior design studio shaped by Hill Country light, lake water, and the way this city insists on living outdoors.
The Studio in Austin
Brady Mathews founded Sojourn here for a reason. After West Hollywood and years inside RH's design leadership, he was looking for a city where nature and design still speak to each other daily — and Austin, with its greenbelt canyons, its lakes, and its unhurried confidence, was the answer.
Austin rewards designers who pay attention. The light is different here — high, clear, and generous, filtered through live oak canopies in the older neighborhoods and arriving unbroken across the water on Lake Austin. A palette that looks quiet in a showroom can turn thin under that sun. The studio designs for the light Austin actually has: honed stone instead of polish, warm plaster instead of flat white, oak and linen that deepen through the afternoon rather than glare.
Just as compelling is the calibre of craft within reach. Texas limestone quarried an hour from the city, steel fabricators fluent in fine residential work, millwork shops that still think in generations — Austin gives a studio like Sojourn the materials and the hands to build rooms that will outlast their photographs.
Local Fluency
Few cities hold this much architectural range inside a few miles. The studio works across all of it.
In Tarrytown and the older streets near the lake, that means 1930s bungalows and mid-century ranches whose modest bones deserve careful, respectful expansion — proportion first, spectacle never. In West Lake Hills and Barton Creek, it means limestone-and-glass contemporaries stepping down hillsides toward canyon views, where every window is a composition and the landscape is the largest room in the house. Along Lake Austin, new modern builds ask for interiors that can stand beside all that water and sky without competing.
What unites them is how Austin lives: doors open, thresholds blurred, ten months of the year spent moving between kitchen and terrace. Sojourn plans for that movement — sightlines that carry from the range to the pool, materials that pass from inside to out without a seam, evenings that begin in the kitchen and end under the pecan trees. It is indoor-outdoor living treated as a discipline, not a feature.
Services in Austin
Whole-home design direction for Austin renovations and new builds, from finishes to the final object.
Stone, wood, and water — the rooms Austin homes gather around, composed for daily ritual.
Flow and threshold for houses that live half outdoors — the invisible architecture of calm.
Curated selection and commissioned work, built with the craftspeople this region is quietly full of.
The sensory layer — textile, object, and ritual — that settles a house into a sanctuary.
Selected Austin Work
Questions
Yes. Full-home renovations are the heart of the studio's Austin practice — reworking mid-century houses, updating 1990s and 2000s builds, and designing interiors for new construction from the framing stage forward. The studio leads design direction across architecture-adjacent decisions, finishes, furnishings, and styling so the finished home reads as one continuous idea.
Constantly, and by preference. The best outcomes happen when the interior designer is at the table early, so the studio collaborates with the client's architect and builder from schematic design onward — aligning floor plans, window placement, lighting, and material selections before anything is committed to drawings. If a project needs a team, the studio can recommend collaborators suited to its scope.
Design-led transformations begin around $300K. Whole-home design typically starts at $500K, and luxury renovations or second homes generally begin at $1M and up. Every engagement starts with a conversation about scope, timeline, and the way you want to live, so the budget serves the life the home is meant to hold.
The studio works throughout Austin, with a concentration in West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, Lost Creek, Sunset Valley, Tarrytown, and Barton Creek. Projects along Lake Austin and in the surrounding Hill Country are also a regular part of the practice.
By treating the threshold as a room of its own. Austin offers most of the year outdoors, so the studio plans sightlines from kitchen to terrace, chooses materials that move comfortably between inside and out — limestone, white oak, performance textiles — and calibrates palettes to hold their warmth under strong Texas light rather than wash out in it.
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The studio serves the communities in Austin's western hills and a second-home practice on the shores of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
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Share your project — the place, the timeline, the life you want it to hold — and the studio will be in touch to arrange a conversation.
