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Whole-home design direction, from the architectural finishes that shape a room to the final object on the shelf — one vision, carried all the way through.
The Service
Most homes are designed in fragments — an architect here, a builder there, furniture chosen last and in a hurry. Full-service design replaces the fragments with a single, continuous thought.
Sojourn takes responsibility for the whole interior world of the house: the plaster and stone that meet your hand, the plan that governs how mornings move, the light that changes hour by hour, the furniture, art, and objects that finish each room. Nothing is an afterthought, because nothing arrives after the thought. The result is a home that feels inevitable — as if it could not have been made any other way.
What It Includes
The governing idea for the home — its palette, materiality, and mood — established at the start and held steady through every decision that follows. This is the thread that keeps a house from becoming a collection of rooms.
Plaster, stone, wood, and metal — the permanent surfaces of the house. The studio specifies flooring, wall treatments, millwork, ceilings, and hardware so the architecture itself carries the design, not just what is placed against it.
A complete FF&E program: sourcing, specification, procurement, and installation of every piece, from the sofa you will keep for decades to the fittings you touch a dozen times a day.
Layered plans that honor natural light first, then build on it — ambient, task, and sculptural light tuned to how each room is used at seven in the morning and ten at night.
The final layer, and the most personal. Art, ceramics, books, and found objects chosen slowly and placed with intention, so the finished home reflects a life rather than a showroom.
The studio joins your project team early, reviewing drawings, attending site meetings, and keeping the interior vision aligned with the architecture and construction as the house takes shape.
The Approach
Full-service design is where the studio's philosophy of intentional living becomes most complete. When one hand shapes everything, everything can serve the same purpose: your rest, your rituals, your sense of belonging.
Brady begins each engagement with the life the house must hold — how you wake, gather, work, and wind down — and lets those rhythms decide the plan, the palette, and the materials. It is a way of working drawn from his years in hospitality-informed design and refined alongside some of the most influential names in American interiors. The rooms that result are quiet, sensory, and unhurried, made to restore the people inside them.
Questions
Everything the finished home requires: overall design direction, interior architecture and finish selection, furniture and fixtures, lighting, art and object curation, and coordination with your architect and builder. The studio carries one vision from the first drawing to the last object placed on a shelf.
As early as possible — ideally while the architecture is still on paper. Early involvement lets the studio shape room proportions, window placement, ceiling planes, and material transitions before they are fixed, which saves cost and produces a far more coherent home.
Design-led transformations generally begin around $300K. Whole-home engagements typically begin at $500K, and luxury renovations or second homes at $1M and above. Every project receives a tailored scope and fee proposal after an initial conversation.
Yes. Collaboration is built into the service. The studio joins the project team, attends site meetings, reviews drawings, and keeps the interior vision aligned with the architecture and construction as decisions are made — not after.
Sojourn serves Austin and its surrounding communities — West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, Lost Creek, and Sunset Valley — along with a second-home practice in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and select national work.
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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.