Ray Booth Design

Ray Booth Design To dream, to see, to make. Interior & Architectural designer. Partner McAlpine House. Collections with Hickory Chair + Visual Comfort & Co.

08/18/2026

This 1960s Nashville stone house never needed a redesign. It needed permission to be itself again. Under decades of pattern and color, the honey stone walls, the arched windows, the timber beams were all still there, just buried. Editing is the key to happiness, and here that meant taking things away until the house could finally say what it always wanted to say. Rambling, English-inspired, honest.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Renovation Architecture: Ray Booth Design, McALPINE
Photographer: Tim Lenz
As featured in: 1stDibs, LUXE Interiors + Design

An interior isn't about furniture. It's about what a family actually does in a room. A branch-form chandelier hangs over...
08/13/2026

An interior isn't about furniture. It's about what a family actually does in a room. A branch-form chandelier hangs over a family room built for real use, leather chairs, layered rugs, a coffee table clearly meant to hold feet, not just flowers. Down the hall, an oversized antiqued mirror leans into the dining room like it's been there for decades. Nothing here is precious. It's collected, layered, lived in.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Architecture: McALPINE
Photographer: Pieter Estersohn Photography
As featured in: LUXE Interiors + Design

Our hearts are with Colombia following the devastating 7.4 magnitude earthquake. We are supporting the Colombian Red Cro...
08/12/2026

Our hearts are with Colombia following the devastating 7.4 magnitude earthquake. We are supporting the Colombian Red Cross - Cruz Roja Colombiana as their search and rescue teams deliver urgent aid on the ground. For those looking to join the relief efforts, we have shared some ways you can help at the link in our bio.

I'm excited to be joining the The Layered Room: How Great Interiors Are Built panel with Milieu magazine at the Nashvill...
08/12/2026

I'm excited to be joining the The Layered Room: How Great Interiors Are Built panel with Milieu magazine at the Nashville Design Collective on Thursday, September 10th at 10 AM CST, alongside Carolyn Kendall from and Roger Higgins, with Leslie Newsom Rascoe moderating the conversation. Afterwards, I'll be signing copies of my new book, The Expressive Home: Architecture and Interiors. Link to RSVP is in my bio, hope to see you there!

"Much of our task was maintaining the charm, while utilizing all of the interesting spaces that had evolved out of its j...
08/12/2026

"Much of our task was maintaining the charm, while utilizing all of the interesting spaces that had evolved out of its journey as a house." —Ray Booth

This house had already lived a whole life before we got here. Arched doorways, exposed beams, a floor plan that rambled because it had grown room by room over decades. We didn't erase any of that. We just gave it room to be seen again.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Renovation Architecture: Ray Booth Design, McALPINE
Photographer: Tim Lenz
As featured in: 1stDibs, LUXE Interiors + Design

08/10/2026

My great love is of good architecture. Without it, you don't have good interiors. I trained as an architect first, so I think of a house as one long decision instead of two separate scopes. The architecture is the vessel, the interiors are what fills it. When those two things get made by different people who never talk to each other, you can feel the seam. On this house, I got to do both, so there isn't one.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Architecture: Ray Booth Design, McALPINE
Landscape Architect: Kaiser Trabue Landscape Architecture
DOP: Dane Deaner
As featured in: Milieu Magazine

08/08/2026

We are in Nashville today, at a house I think of as one of the more modern turns my work has taken. This one was a feature in Milieu's Fall issue, and it's also one of the anchor projects in my new book, Evocative Interiors.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Architecture: Ray Booth Design, McALPINE
DOP: Dane Deaner
Landscape Architect: Kaiser Trabue Landscape Architecture
As featured in: Milieu Magazine

We used purple the way you'd use a good joke. Sparingly, and only when it lands. A chair here, a pillow there, nothing l...
08/08/2026

We used purple the way you'd use a good joke. Sparingly, and only when it lands. A chair here, a pillow there, nothing louder than a whisper against all that gray and glass. Less blooms into more, and this room proves it. Too much purple would have been decoration... this is restraint.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Architecture: Ray Booth Design, McALPINE
Photographer: Pieter Estersohn

08/06/2026

The beach has always represented a kind of simplicity that a touring musician's everyday life doesn't have much room for. So the whole house leans into that: bleached-out white throughout, and wherever there's color, it's pulled straight from the water outside rather than a paint chip. A tree-trunk table in the music room, twine-bound lanterns hanging above it, everything a little cobbled together on purpose.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Architecture: McALPINE
Photographer: William Abranowicz Photography
As featured in: Architectural Digest

Every material in this room agreed to disappear so the chandelier wouldn't have to share the stage. Reclaimed beams, a w...
07/31/2026

Every material in this room agreed to disappear so the chandelier wouldn't have to share the stage. Reclaimed beams, a weathered cabinet, linen instead of anything glossy, all of it holding still on cue, and since nothing else in here reflects light, the chandelier gets it all.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Architecture: McALPINE
Photographer: Lisa Romerein
As featured in: Galerie Magazine, LUXE Interiors + Design

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