Kim Gordon Designs

A primary bathroom that lets the outside in.

Wrapped in windows and washed in natural light, this space feels less like a room and more like an extension of the sky outside. Simple, bright, and endlessly calming.

Some of the best design decisions are just about getting out of the way and letting the light do the work.

Most design happens in one direction, either chasing curb appeal or chasing a beautiful interior. Rarely both, at the same time, from day one.

The homes that actually feel right when you live in them? Someone designed the outside and the inside as one decision, not two.

If you're not sure which one your home is missing — that's exactly what a consult is for. Link in bio to book.

Take you on a tour of Milwood I? Don't mind if we do.

When we designed this home, almost every choice felt like a risk. Stone floors in a Versailles pattern, when everyone else in Venice was using oak. Boulder stone from Ireland on the feature walls. Black steel windows nobody was putting on residential homes at the time. It would've been easier to build another all-white box. We didn't.

Years later, those choices are exactly why this house still feels timeless instead of dated.

Good design should still feel right in ten years, not just on the day it's photographed. If that's the kind of home you're after, let's talk.

We design for feeling as much as function — what a space should feel like at 7am versus 9pm, where people will actually gather, what rest looks like once the photoshoot's over and real life moves in.

A house runs on function. A home runs on feeling.

Some homes stay with you long after the project ends. Nowita is one of them.

15 years after our first project here, we returned to renovate the primary bedroom, refresh the furnishings, and layer in new art and tchotchkes throughout.

Coming back to a home you helped shape and finding it's still asking for more — that's a rare kind of full circle.

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Before we ever touch a floor plan, we study the land — where the sun moves, which views are worth framing, how the site wants to be walked through. Architecture that responds to its surroundings feels inevitable. Architecture that doesn't feels imposed.

Start with the land. Everything else follows.