Areas Served

Interior Designer in Raleigh, North Carolina

House of Maevie is a design-led renovation studio working throughout Raleigh and the greater Triangle. We design whole-home renovations, additions, new construction, and complete furnishings. It’s for Raleigh homeowners who want a home that feels collected and personal, built around the way they actually live.

Designing in Raleigh

Raleigh is several cities of housing at once

Raleigh holds a remarkable range of homes under one city line. The era a house comes from tells me more about the work ahead than almost anything else.

Inside the beltline

Five Points, Hayes Barton, Oakwood, Budleigh. Mostly 1920s through 1940s. What people fall in love with in these houses is exactly what makes them complicated. Original plaster, real millwork, small closed rooms, and kitchens built for a way of living nobody does anymore.

The work here is almost always about opening things up without stripping out what made you buy the house. That’s a harder line to walk than a full gut, and it’s where custom millwork does the most work, because new detail has to sit convincingly next to eighty-year-old detail.

You can see how we approach it in our Raleigh historic cottage and the Paris-inspired ranch.

If your house is in a historic overlay district

This catches people out, so it’s worth knowing before you plan anything. Any exterior change in one of Raleigh’s historic overlay districts needs a Certificate of Appropriateness. So does any change to a designated Raleigh Historic Landmark. Get that approval before the work starts.

City staff can approve most changes as Minor Works. Bigger ones go to a commission, which takes longer. Interior work generally isn’t affected, so a kitchen or a bathroom is usually straightforward. Windows, doors, roofing and anything visible from the street need the extra step. Build that into the schedule early, because catching it later is much harder on everyone.

North Raleigh and the newer neighborhoods

A completely different brief. These houses are bigger, later, and structurally sound, and what they usually need is character rather than surgery: better layouts in the rooms you actually use, cabinetry that goes to the ceiling, lighting that isn’t an afterthought. Our North Raleigh colonial and Lakefield estate are both good examples.

Whichever end of the city you’re in, the sequence is the same. We settle layout, scope and budget first, because thoughtful design takes time and the decisions underneath are the expensive ones to undo.

Why House of Maevie

Why Raleigh clients choose us

Planning before products

We settle the hard decisions first: layout, structure, scope, and budget. So you make the choices that shape your Raleigh home with clarity, long before construction begins.

Character, not trends

Homes that feel collected and personal, rooted in how you actually live. Not in whatever is popular this season.

Guidance through complexity

From concept through installation, we coordinate the details and the trades, so you can keep moving without chasing anyone.

What We Work On

Renovations, new homes, and complete furnishings in Raleigh

Renovations & Additions

We design whole-home and multi-room renovations and additions across Raleigh and the Triangle. That starts at early space planning and runs through construction and installation. Our studio handles creative direction, technical drawings, selections, and trade coordination.

Investment: a single-space renovation starts around $40,000 for a bathroom. A kitchen renovation runs to $150,000+. Design fees are $6,000 to $22,500.

New Construction Homes

For new builds we join early, alongside your architect and builder. We shape layouts, finishes, and the full technical drawing set before ground breaks. The earlier we’re at the table, the more we protect your vision and your budget.

Investment: design fees start at $15,000 and grow with the size and complexity of the home.

Furnishing & Interiors

Complete furnishing for whole homes and single rooms. Each gets the same standard as a whole-home project: layouts, custom pieces, sourcing, and styling installed end to end. One room or every room, we design for how you actually live.

Investment: full-service furnishing begins around $25,000 per room. Design fees start at $4,000.

Our Process

Clear at every step

Inquiry

Tell us about your project. We’ll schedule a short call to hear about your home, goals and timeline.

Consultation

We walk your space, then talk through priorities, investment and direction before we outline scope.

Concept

We settle layouts and the key decisions early, before anyone moves into detailed design.

Development

We resolve selections, drawings and visualizations in full, so construction moves with confidence.

Execution

We stay on it through procurement, coordination and installation, start to finish.

Frequently Asked

The questions we hear most in Raleigh

Do I need special approval to renovate a historic Raleigh home?

Only for exterior work. Say your house sits in one of Raleigh’s historic overlay districts, or it’s a designated Raleigh Historic Landmark. Exterior changes then need a Certificate of Appropriateness before the work starts.

City staff can approve most of them as Minor Works. Larger ones go to a commission and take longer. Interior work generally isn’t affected, so kitchens and bathrooms are usually straightforward. The one thing to avoid is planning a window or door change on the assumption it’s a simple swap.

What does an interior design project with House of Maevie cost?

Design fees begin at $3,500 and scale with the scope of the project. Full-service furnishing budgets typically begin at $25,000 per room. In Raleigh, a single-space renovation starts around $40,000 for a bathroom. A kitchen renovation runs to $150,000 and up, with design fees from $6,000 to $22,500. New construction and whole-home projects begin at $15,000 in design fees. We talk all of it through openly on the complimentary call.

Can I open up the kitchen in an older Raleigh house?

Usually, though the answer comes from the structure rather than the floor plan. In a Raleigh house from the 1920s or 1930s, the wall you want gone often carries load. That means a beam and a structural engineer, not a quick demolition.

That’s a real cost and it’s much better known early than discovered mid-project. It’s the main reason we settle layout, scope and budget before anyone chooses a finish, and it’s most of the difference between stress and success.

Where Else We Work

Starting a project in Raleigh?

Every project starts with a conversation. Tell us about your home and what you’re hoping to create in it. We’ll help you find the right next step.