Welcome to our Queen Ellena Project. Nestled in Mt. Airy, a beautiful, tree-filled neighborhood in Philadelphia, this historic, Queen-Anne style home was built in 1895. We had the opportunity to lean into the remarkable original historic details of the home while creating custom solutions for our clients, a young family of four. Our careful attention to detail resulted in updated spaces that feel perfectly in sync with the essence of the original home while embracing the needs and conveniences of modern family life.

Welcome to our Queen Ellena Project. Nestled in Mt. Airy, a beautiful, tree-filled neighborhood in Philadelphia, this historic, Queen-Anne style home was built in 1895. We had the opportunity to lean into the remarkable original historic details of the home while creating custom solutions for our clients, a young family of four. Our careful attention to detail resulted in updated spaces that feel perfectly in sync with the essence of the original home while embracing the needs and conveniences of modern family life.

When our clients first contacted Vestige Home, they were ready to make a big move from Boston to Philadelphia to enjoy a more walkable lifestyle in their retirement. Both academics with a passion for history, art, and design, they decided to make their new home in the iconic Society Hill Towers in Old City, Philadelphia.

Welcome back to the Philly Stone Queen, friends. I hope that you will come along with me as I take your through our modern, earth-y, jewel-box guest bathroom.

Five years ago, when we moved into our beloved #PhillyStoneQueen, we had a long list of projects. At the top of the list were our bathrooms, which were conveniently left out of the listing photos. Neither of the two full bathrooms had been touched in years, and it showed. From peeling vinyl floors, to dated fixtures, our bathrooms were in serious need of updating.

If we are being completely honest… all our projects tug at our heart strings, but this one was really very special. All the best characteristics came together, including the sweetest of clients who love old houses and trust the Vestige Home aesthetic, to make a perfect project.

“I’m over the brown!” This was the comment we heard over and over as we walked throughout our clients home during her initial interior design consultation in the early part of 2021. Her home, a large, brick home nestled back into a wooden lot in Warren, NJ had been updated several years earlier and our client was craving a fresh, new look.

It’s kitchen season around here! With several kitchen projects in the works or about to get started, it seems like the perfect time to share our #TwinonFox kitchen reveal! We love our clients, that goes without saying, but when our client is also a neighbor and a friend, it makes it even better!

This particular kitchen is set in the lovely neighborhood of East Falls, close to our studio in a beautiful, Dutch Colonial twin. Our client and her two boys had already renovated portions of the home to suit their more modern, minimalist aesthetic.

Welcome back to Part Two of our #StoneHouseSanctuary project reveal! This is Sara, and I’m back to walk you through our newly renovated kitchen designed in collaboration with vestige HOME. In case you missed it, be sure to check out Part One of the project here. After completing the Family Room, we decided that it was time to tackle the adjacent kitchen. The two spaces are connected through a large 11 foot cased opening. We knew that we wanted the two rooms to be cohesive but distinctive while adding functionality and personality.

Hello friends! The reveal that we have for you today is a little bit different than our usual interior design projects and I know that you are going to be VERY into this particular project. Despite the many requests, for the majority of our interior design projects, we are unable to share any sources out of respect for our clients - after all, they are hiring us to produce one-of-a-kind spaces! But this particular home belongs to Sara, our very own Director of Operations and Marketing, so we are able to share all of the juicy details! In fact, I’m going to let her take you through the reveal - take it away Sara!

Whether you are working with an interior designer, or taking a DIY approach to creating your home, there are a few tried-and-true ways that you can elevate your spaces, making them unique and unexpectedly beautiful. At vestige HOME we strive to find moments of delight in the designs that we create - elevating even everyday items. If you would like to work with our Interior Design studio in Philadelphia or beyond to create cohesive and delightful spaces, we would love to hear from you. Keep reading to learn more about a few ways that we love to create elevated interiors.

We are back at it my friends, and this time with a new historic Philadelphia interior design project reveal! Industry-wide delays have our schedules seriously stretched which means it’s even more exciting when we get to photograph a completed project. Welcome to our #PlayingFavoritesInFishtown project.

Personally, I really love this project - the home itself is very cool - a 1910 row home in the Fishtown neighborhood in Philadelphia. Luckily for everyone, the home still contained many of the stunning original features and we leaned in, creating design tension with modern additions while playing up those special original elements. I also can’t say enough about our incredible clients who were just the nicest people to work with. Nice people, great spaces - it’s a match made in designer heaven.

We are experts in our space. When you are considering developing a relationship with an interior designer, it goes beyond aesthetics - the ability to create amazing designs can get lost without the ability to bring those designs efficiently to completion. You need to trust that your designer has the relationships, know-how, processes, and the people to bring thousands of details, large and small, together to create a space that is unexpectedly beautiful, functional, and filled with soulful moments. At vestige HOME, we have spent years refining and developing each of these areas and we are ready to share our expertise with you. Here are just a few things that set vestige HOME apart.

The most common question we receive on our social media is, without a doubt, “What color is that?” We get it! A huge amount of time goes into establishing the colors for each of our projects, especially when we are designing a whole home like our #CharmingCountyColonial project. We want the rooms to feel cohesive, yet special, with an easy flow from space to space.

When you choose to work with vestige HOME, our focus on thoughtful, functional living solutions is always at the forefront of our designs. While we love a beautiful space, we also know that space needs to work hard for our clients - sometimes even serving duel purposes. Communication is key, the more that we know how you live in your home, your pain points, and your end goals, the better job we can do at designing hard-working spaces. We invest time early in Design Planning to dig into your lifestyle and to understand the aesthetics that speak directly to you and what you’re everyday design challenges are so that we can deliver personalized solutions to everyday designs problems. Today we're looking back at some of our favorite functionality moments in our designs, proving that functionality doesn’t have to be sacrificed in creating soulful spaces.

I’m writing this from my laptop on a road trip to Florida with my husband, Adam, an our two beagles, Shelby and Lucy. It’s our annual January pilgrimage to visit family, shop the ___ Antique show, and escape the biting cold that is January in Philadelphia. Up ahead of our car is a semi-truck, the container it’s towing is a deep blue-green with subtle streaks of rust. The truck cab is a red-brown that reminds me of the old redware I used to see in the antique shops when i was a kid shopping with my mom. I’ve just exclaimed to Adam what a beautiful color combination this is, and how it would be a great jumping off point for a room design. As he side-eyes me with a somewhat skeptical glance, I pull out my phone in hopes of snapping a picture, but before I have time, the truck speeds off.

Welcome back friends. It’s the third and final chapter of our #CharmingCountryColonial project reveal and we can’t say thank you enough for your feedback and support. This house, and these clients, are so very special and it was an honor to be able to help create a home that will only grow more lovely as the family builds cherished memories in these spaces. In case you missed it, be sure to check out Part One and Part Two.

Welcome back friends! It’s Part Two of our reveal for our #CharmingCountryColonial project and today we’ll be heading upstairs to the bedrooms and bathrooms. In case you missed Part One, you can read all about the Living Room, Dining Room, and Front Lounge here. We have had so many requests for paint color sourcing from this project that we are excited to be able to offer a paint sourcing guide as an exclusive for our email subscribers.

In late 2020, our clients from our #SocietyPines Project made the big decision to purchase their dream country house in beautiful New Hope, Pennsylvania. Just an hour outside of Philadelphia where they have their primary residence, the new home would be a weekend escape for our clients with their two young girls. They asked us to create our vision for an English Country House, using the surrounding landscape as our inspiration. Sign us up! The historic property dates back to the 1800’s and our clients wanted to avoid any major construction to the home, retaining the original character whenever possible.

When you’re an interior designer, and if you’re lucky, your clients welcome you not only into their homes, but also into their lives. This has to be one of the very best parts of what we do. We get to see families grow, and sometimes, we get to come along for the ride when our clients begin a new chapter with a move to a new home. This is just what happened when, after years of searching for just the right place, our Rittenhouse Revival clients jumped at the chance to purchase a new home to meet their changing needs. They reached out to us prior to the closing to begin the design process for a few of the main rooms, including the formal living room, dining room, and a more relaxed den.