Kensington Design House

Kensington Design House We are a Charleston-based studio blending architecture, interiors, and curated collections. Defined by design. Curated to keep. Launching Summer 2026.

We create spaces that feel elevated yet effortless — where every detail is crafted with intention. See my digital profile! https://blinq.me/8p0wmM17YhxH?bs=db

05/27/2026

The Global Wellness Institute recently named the built environment as the next frontier in wellness.

And honestly? It’s about time.

We spend 90% of our lives indoors, yet most homes are exclusively designed for how they look not how they feel. Your nervous system is constantly scanning your environment. Some spaces restore you, while others quietly deplete.

Science is now linking our surroundings to sleep, longevity, stress and emotional well being. The home is no longer just a place to live, its preventative health infrastructure.

05/22/2026

You know that feeling where once something enters your life that is all you see?
When you’re thinking about getting pregnant and suddenly notice babies everywhere.

That’s fractals for us right now.

We’ve been finishing up our Science of Design certification while our daughter has been studying fractals in her science class. Now we see them everywhere.

Fractals are repeating patterns found throughout nature like trees, leaves, coastline and clouds. Researchers have found these patterns actually help reduce stress and support nervous system regulation.

This photo was taken during a walk through the trails of Daniel Island. The light through the trees stopped me. My body felt it.

Some researchers are now describing the built environment as preventative health infrastructure.

New journal now live ** The Home is Becoming Health Infrastructure**

05/19/2026

With any project, we start by reverse engineering the experience.

How do you want the space to feel?
What is creating tension?
Where does the environment feel disconnected or difficult to settle into?

From there, we start thinking about how architecture and design can support a different emotional experience within the reality to a space. There is real science behind many of the decisions we’re exploring. How the body responds to enclosure and refuge. How layered lighting affects mood and nervous system regulation. How movement, materiality, texture and visual breathing room influence emotional experience inside a home.

Even something as small as a banquette can change how supported and grounded a space feels. We’re still early in the process, but will share more as the project evolves.

05/15/2026

Working within the lines, we’re keeping the footprint (yes even the peninsula)and leaning into intentional storage and visual breathing room. It’s definitely a puzzle, but we’re making every inch count.

Still a few tricks up our sleeve for the counter space! Stay tuned.

05/13/2026

One of the things we have realized through building Kensington Design House is that we approach spaces very differently.

Rich tends to think about what is possible. I tend to push outside the box.

Somewhere in the middle is usually where the best ideas happen.

But getting to that middle ground takes time. Honestly being a husband and wife design team requires endless patience and occasionally wondering if couples therapy covers floor plan disputes.

For this project, it means obsessing over raw materials and how to drag nature into a space that desperately craves it. It’s passing ideas back and forth at 10 at night when my brain wants to shut down but it can’t.

This next project is a smaller space with a lot of constraints. We are keeping much of the existing footprint while trying to make it feel more functional, more settled and more beautiful all at once.

Two different ways of thinking slowly merged into one clear vision.

As we get deeper into it, it is a reminder of why we started in the first place.

We are better together.

04/21/2026

Cliff House in Maine wasn’t always a place to relax. Historically, this stretch of jagged coastline was used to scan the Atlantic for submarine threats. Watching the horizon wasn’t about the view; it was about survival.

Now we come here for the opposite reason. We step away to let our body settle. But the reason the architecture works is exactly the same.

We are drawn to the views, but require the security of solid structure to truly enjoy.

We started to study this spatial friction more intensely in the places we’re drawn to. A successful interior isn’t just a passive frame for a view. It’s what allows you to stay with a room like that.

04/17/2026

At Woodview, we were trying to solve something simple.
Before your eye stopped at the wall in the kitchen.
So we opened it.
Now it moves through the room and out and beyond.
The tree line becomes part of the space.
The footprint didn’t change.
But the space behaves completely differently.
An owl settled into the trees just behind the door one day.
It’s a moment we never would have seen before.
That shift matters more than it seems.
More in our journal in the bio.

04/15/2026

We toured the Southern Living Idea House in Kiawah River Estates a couple years ago. We noticed something right away.
The space didn’t stop at the walls. Your eyes kept moving out into the marsh.
When your eyes have somewhere to go, your body settles.
That is not style. It is how we are wired.
That’s something we think about early.
The outside becomes part of the space, not just because it’s beautiful, but because of how it shapes the experience inside.
In Charleston, the land sits low. Marsh, water and horizon all at the same level.
The light is softer and spreads across it instead of hitting one point.
So your eye doesn’t fix on a single thing. It keeps moving.
When a space closes that off, it feels tighter, even when it isn’t.
When it stays open, your eyes keep moving and your body settles with it.

04/13/2026

It’s not always what you add.
Sometimes it’s what defines the space from the start.
At Woodview, we explored raising the ceiling to increase the volume.
From there, it became a process of working through structural and proportional decisions.
There were a lot of them.
The spaces that feel the most calm are often the ones that take the most work to get there.
Most of that work isn’t visible.
Journal linked in the bio.

04/07/2026

The primary constraint in many Charleston ranch homes isn’t square footage, but vertical volume.
That’s what we addressed here. While finishes draw the eye, it’s proportion that ultimately determines how a space feels.



This was us years ago. This piece just came out about us and the start of Kensington Design House. It shares more of the...
04/03/2026

This was us years ago.
This piece just came out about us and the start of Kensington Design House.
It shares more of the story behind why we are building this and how we think of design.
It felt a little vulnerable to put out there, but also felt like us.
Would love to hear what resonates!
If you’re curious, the link is here: https://manytown.com/the-new-chapter-of-the-new-castle-couple/

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