Sonoma County Interior Design
The home you've worked toward, without the project taking over your life.
Endless custom choices. Furniture you can't buy direct. Orders that arrive late or damaged. Surprises halfway through the remodel. A whole-home project can quietly take over your life.
You want a home where rest actually happens, hosting feels effortless, and the people you love want to gather.
We guide you from the first design decision through purchasing and construction to the day the last piece is installed.
The Hard Part Was Never Your Vision
You already know how you want to live. Our job is to make sure the finished space reflects it, from the layout and design to every selection.
What stalls most projects is everything in between: hundreds of custom choices, trade-only vendors, contractor bids, schedules, and orders that have to arrive right.
Most people take on a project like this once or twice in a lifetime. It's a big investment, and you want to get it right the first time.
The hardest part is the handoff. Usually, the designer draws it, and the builder builds it. The gap between them is where budgets slip, timelines stretch, and the vision quietly erodes.
That's where we stay. Through construction, we work alongside your builder so what gets built reflects what we designed together.
How We Guide You
1. Listen and plan. Before we design anything, we learn how your household lives and who you want to host. We check what's feasible and agree on the goals together.
2. Design, one clear decision at a time. Big decisions first, like the layout. Details later, like hardware finishes. We narrow each choice to a clear A or B, then refine one design until it's right.
3. Purchase and build. We open trade-only vendors to you, place and track every order, and match your project with the right contractor. We plan the sequence and schedule and stay with you through construction.
4. Install and live. We see every piece through delivery and installation. You walk into a finished home.
One Studio, Start to Finish
We don't hand over drawings and wish you luck.
We work with a deep bench of contractors, builders, and trades, so we can match your project with the right one for quality, detail, price, and schedule. The lowest bid can cost more later. The highest isn't automatically right.
Remodels uncover surprises inside the walls. When that happens, the same team that made the design decisions is there to adjust and protect what you set out to create.
You make the decisions that matter and stay out of the ones that drain you.
What Happens Behind Every Order
Most mid- to high-end furniture makers sell only to designers. We have those trade relationships, and we use them for you.
Custom and semi-custom pieces aren't like ordering online. Each order means confirming the right fabric, size, and yardage; checking freight and insurance terms; and following up until it ships. When something arrives damaged, runs late, or is discontinued mid-order, we handle the return and find a replacement that still fits the design.
You see the finished room. We handle everything it took to get there.
Always Know Where Things Stand
A written update lands in your inbox at the end of every week, so you always know exactly where the project and your investment stand.
Nothing is ordered without your written approval, and every proposal is priced room by room. No surprises, no quiet overruns, no decisions made without you.
A Home for This Chapter
You've spent years making good decisions and investing carefully. Now you have the means to build the home that fits the life you live today and the one you're growing into.
Spending at that level can feel like a lot. We show you the value behind each piece, where it's worth investing and where it makes sense to save, so every choice feels right for who you are now.
"She ... had helpful advice on where we could save vs. which items to invest in." Carey Jones, Healdsburg
What Clients Are Saying
“I've been working with Stephanie on a whole-house renovation . . . She's given me basically a new house in terms of modernizing and freshening up every room while retaining its character. But the best part about working with her is that she's delightful and easy to work with.”
Ann Peters, Kenwood, CA
“I can’t say enough about what a wonderful experience we had. Stephanie immediately understood my taste and priorities. I wanted someone to oversee the project and hire the contractor and subs, and AVCO did that. I never had to worry about anything. They are great communicators, professional, and easy to work with. It couldn’t have gone more smoothly.”
PAM WILSEY, SANTA ROSA, CA
“Stephanie of AVCO Design was a dream to work with! She immediately came up with a layout and furniture plan that worked for us, sourced many of the pieces, and had helpful advice on where we could save vs. which items to invest in. She really "got" our style and found several incredible pieces that give the space a lively charm we just adore.”
CAREY JONES, HEALDSBURG, CA
For Your Business
Tasting rooms, showrooms, and workplaces face the same challenge and share the same goal: a space where your team feels recharged, colleagues connect, and attracting business feels effortless. Our process works the same way for commercial spaces as it does for residential.
Serving Sonoma County And The North Bay Area
AVCO Design is based in Sebastopol and works with clients throughout Sonoma County, taking on select projects in Napa County, Marin County, and the surrounding North Bay.
Wherever your home is, we manage design and purchasing and coordinate with the construction team so the result is installed exactly as intended.
Sebastopol, Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Sonoma, Kenwood, Glen Ellen, Petaluma, Occidental, Forestville, Napa County, Marin County
Your Home And Your Life In It
Picture the first holiday with everyone home. All your loved ones are sitting around one table. The house works, the rooms feel like you, and for once, you're not thinking about the project.
What would you want that first gathering to feel like? Tell us about your home, and we'll show you how we'd get there.