Journal
I am an interior designer based in Lancaster, Massachusetts, with an architecture degree and license from Italy.
That dual background shapes everything I write here, for better or worse.
Most of my work lives in the world of historic properties and projects with heavy constraints. I don't shy away from the difficult stuff. In fact, I prefer it. Give me an 18th-century restoration, a complex renovation of a period home, or someone who just fell in love with a crumbling farmhouse in Italy and has no idea what they're actually buying, and I'm happy. My job is making these spaces work for a modern life without stripping away what made them worth saving, and making sure nobody signs anything before they know exactly what they're getting into. That said, a well-designed contemporary space gets the same rigor from me as a historic one, I don't play favorites.
This is not a blog about trends or generic design advice, there are enough of those. It's where I actually say what I think: about materials, about methods, about the beaureaucracy that make Italian real estate its own circle of hell, and about the far more civilized, if occasionally surprising, reality of renovating homes here in New England.
Opinionated, specific, occasionally contrarian, always honest.
If you own a difficult house, are thinking about buying one in Italy, or just want to know what it actually takes to renovate something old without ruining it, you're in the right place. Or you simply want the unfiltered opinion of an Italian doing this on two continents.
Either way, La maison est à vous!
Ciao.
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To maintain the high level of quality and clear communication my clients expect, I personally oversee a select few renovations at a time.
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