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Interior design in Coral Gables.
The doors, floors and built-in details you love in your Coral Gables home can help guide its next chapter. I consider those features alongside the furniture you want to keep and the way you use the rooms. Together, they shape the layout and material palette before we select new pieces.
Let the existing architecture guide the design
The City identifies City Hall as Mediterranean Revival architecture using native oolitic limestone, and Merrick House as an early coral-rock home. These are local architectural references, not Sanctuary Five projects. Your own floors, doors and built-ins are the starting point for your interior.
Explore the City’s documented architectural landmarks
Separate what stays from what changes
Photograph the details you value and note why you want to keep them. Look at how they affect furniture placement: a built-in may provide useful storage, while a doorway or window may limit where a larger piece belongs. The furniture plan should work with those conditions.
Prepare a keep-and-change brief
List the doors, floors, built-ins and other features you want to retain.
Gather room dimensions and photos showing how those features connect.
Identify furniture that should stay and finishes or furnishings you want to revisit.
Separate furnishing decisions from proposed changes to the building itself.
A planning exercise: build from one retained finish
Try this with a floor, tile or built-in you want to keep. This is an illustrative exercise, not a completed client project.
Photograph the finish in daylight and under the lights you use at night.
Place two or three physical material samples beside it; compare undertone, texture and contrast.
Keep the compatible options together as a starting palette before ordering larger pieces.
A photograph helps begin the conversation; final material choices need to be checked in the room.
Choose the help your project needs
Full-service design can bring the retained details, layouts and new selections into one plan. Relocation design considers how your existing furniture fits around those features. Architectural changes and permitting responsibilities need separate attention from the interior design scope.
Explore full-service interior design · Explore relocation design
Where should I check property-specific historic information?
Use the City’s historical resources as a starting point for questions about your property. Confirm any requirements for proposed alterations with the appropriate department and professionals before assuming the work can proceed.
City of Coral Gables historic-preservation resources
Plan around the details you love
Share photos of the features you want to retain, your room priorities and preferred timing. Amber will confirm project availability and discuss what information or visits the design needs.
