STORY

Our
“Beauty is the language of care.”
— Alice Waters, Coming To My Senses

Play House is a collective. A group of creative professionals who have come together based on a common goal:

to solve problems and tell stories.

What problems you ask? Problems with existing spaces of course. But in addition to that, we knew that changes needed to occur in the industry of residential interiors. 1. Our industry is built around sales, over service, resulting in a transactional relationship that often overpowers a more personal one. 2. Valuable information is commonly withheld on both sides of the transaction. 3. The vague, infrequent, and short term way that money and costs are talked about positions clients to have to make decisions without the information necessary to do so. This keeps them from being able to provide input early enough in the process, which contributes to overrunning costs due to change requests and re-selections.

This all resulted in a way of working that we weren’t particularly proud of. Parties on each side of the transaction end up trying to get as much as possible out of the other, in hopes of feeling, in the end, that they got more than they gave.

We knew that if we would be willing to: be transparent and informative, detailed and accurate in estimating, and prepare clients for what to expect in regards to time and budget… then we could get past the transaction and move on to building the type of relationships that we wanted to be in, freeing us up to create experiences that reflect the storied lives being lived within the spaces in which we work.

With impeccable taste, and over 35 years of combined experience, we add value by correcting existing problems within the space, protecting you from making costly mistakes, and equipping you with the information necessary to make informed decisions. With our discerning eye, we help you tell the story, of the life that you’ve lived and the life that you envision for yourself.

People first. Design second.

VALUES

Our

  • Relationships matter to us. With our colleagues, collaborators, and clients - they matter because the health of those relationships determine the quality of our working lives. So we choose them carefully, and then nurture and protect them. Because that’s how we treat things that matter to us.

  • Hospitality is how we show you that we care. It permeates our work and our ways. You may not know it while it’s happening, but you certainly know when it’s not. And maybe that’s our goal… to just do the small things at every turn that you may not even notice, but you feel cared for throughout the entire experience. And when we’re done, you’re left with a space that carries on the duty in our place. Because we think your space should care for you. We just need to teach it how.

  • Beauty is how we communicate that we care. It is more than visual appeal. When something is beautiful, it works well, serves a purpose, looks good doing it, provides rest to the eye, excitement to the senses, and it communicates a level of thoughtfulness that makes you feel considered. So beauty matters. We don’t want to live without it. And we make sure that you don’t have to either.

  • Curiosity drives our work, our understanding about each other, and you. It is what causes us to investigate why things are the way they are, what if they were better in certain ways, and how can we be involved in creating what we want to see. Its the most fun thing to be curious. And the result is knowledge and education - about people and places mostly. You can see how you would benefit from that ☺️