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The Olivia
sequence means power.
THE ABILITY TO WALK INTO A CONTRACTOR MEETING AND KNOW WHAT THEY KNOW. TO MAKE PERMANENT DECISIONS WITH CONFIDENCE. TO FINISH YOUR PROJECT AND ACTUALLY ENJOY THE RESULT.
I spent a decade inside luxury design and construction watching homeowners get handed the outcome of decisions they were never equipped to make. Not because they were unprepared. Because the industry was never designed to inform them. Mix & Mesh and the Season Method exist to change that. This is where it started.
start here
fix the order
A decade of material distilled into four phases. Plan It. Design It. Build It. Refine It.
What started as a course became a book because there was too much to say and all of it mattered. The Season Method published. The Home Inside(r) membership launched alongside it. And I kept building. Tools, resources, frameworks, everything designed to give homeowners the confidence to walk into their projects and finally feel like someone on the inside is on their side.
Homeowners were never supposed to have this.
Now they do.
2026
the season method
I spent six months building on the side before I handed in my notice. When I left it was toward something.
Hotel projects. Custom residential. My schedule. My terms. Good work. But after his first year my son was still in full time daycare and I could not see a light at the end of the tunnel. Something that had been quietly accumulating for years was getting louder.
2024
out on my own
My son was born in July. I had six weeks with him before I went back to work and handed him to strangers. That was the hardest thing I had done in my career.
The hours did not let up. The projects did not slow down. My son still in full time daycare.
2022
HE ARRIVED
The 0.01%. Not the kind of wealth that makes lists or seeks attention. Private clients whose names you would never recognize, and a few whose names everyone would, none of which I can share. Projects wrapped in the kind of discretion that only exists when everything on the line is extraordinary.
And yet the pattern was the same everywhere. Homeowners on the other side of decisions they had not been equipped to make. The ones who fared best were not smarter. They were on their fifth or sixth home and already knew the game and how to play it. Everyone else was learning it in real time, at full cost, with no one in their corner.
2021
inside the machine
On a $36M project at the Yellowstone Club, two weeks before a family was supposed to move in for Christmas, I complimented the cabinetry team on their speed.
They smiled and said: "Looks great. Just don't open the doors."
Nobody in that room reacted. That family did not move in for Christmas. It took six more weeks. They never knew how close they came. They just accepted the reason the date changed.
2020
The Cabinet Shop Moment
The firm brought me in because of a technology they had just adopted that nobody on the interior design side knew how to use. I ended up teaching architects with decades more experience than me. They flew people in from other offices. I was finishing my bachelor's degree in a CIDA accredited interior design program. Still a student when they flew those architects in to learn from me.
Being inside an interdisciplinary firm gave me something most designers never get. I watched architects, interior designers, landscape architects, contractors, and trades all operate on the same project. I learned where each discipline hands off, where the gaps appear, and what never makes it to the homeowner. Every role had a perspective the others could not fully see. I stopped thinking about where my lane ended and started thinking about what the project actually needed.
That shift changed everything about how I understood a home project from conception through completion.
2019
Joining the big Leagues
My first solo project was a luxury hospitality build. Extraordinary renderings. Solid construction documentation. A client who took the designs and disappeared without paying.
I was 21. I took him to small claims court. I won. It taught me contract law, client protection, and what the industry looks like when there is no accountability built in. Not a bad education for year one.
2017
first project. men's speakeasy
I signed up for an interior design class my senior year because I needed the credit. What I found were codes, scale drawings, and the unglamorous bones of how spaces actually get built. I made a diorama of a kitchen and put tiny plates of food in it because I was that proud of it.
It was the first time design felt like something you could actually inhabit. That diorama still sits on the cabinet in that classroom. And that feeling never left. Three years later my then-fiance asked me what had actually brought me joy. That diorama was still the first thing that came to mind
2013
a throwaway elective
timeline of
m&m
His last day of full time daycare was the day before we flew out. Almost a month away from everything. No projects. No decisions. Just room to breathe for the first time in years.
I came home and started building
2025
A TRIP TO TOKYO
the sign
One year in I sat down and cried. I had traded my desk for a ball and chain around my ankle, wearing more hats than ever. I knew something needed to change.
I pulled back from full service work and leaned into consulting. Then came the sign.
I started showing up at local coffee shops unannounced, a bar height table, a professionally printed sign, a latte, and an open invitation.
"I'm an Interior Designer. Ask Me Anything."
Strangers stopped. They sat down. They talked. And what I heard over and over was the same thing. People making real decisions without the information they needed, trusting whoever was willing to fill that gap, with no framework to know the difference between good guidance and bad. I had watched that play out on million dollar projects for years. Here it was again, over coffee, with people who just wanted to get their homes right.
2025
