Luxury Vacation Home Interior Design in Suncadia
A vacation home designed around how people actually live in a space — including the speakeasy they didn’t know they needed.
Vacation homes at this scale carry a specific risk: they tend to feel like hotels — impressive at the entry, disconnected everywhere else. At 13,500 square feet, the work here was making sure every zone of this vacation home earned its place, from the double-island kitchen down to the below-grade speakeasy.
The three-level staircase runs the full height of the vacation home and became its spine — anchoring circulation, framing views between floors, and making its presence felt from the moment you walk in.
A Vacation Home for Every Elevation
A vacation home reads differently at each level. The upper floor is private in the way that matters — bedrooms built around rest and quiet, not presentation. The main level is the social engine: open kitchen, double islands, dining and living that flow into each other without losing their own definition.
Below grade, the speakeasy becomes its own world — darker, more intimate, designed to feel discovered rather than announced. Backlit art panels do the work of both art and ambient light in a room with no natural source.
The Work Begins With One Conversation
We hold a limited number of consultations each month and are selective about the projects we take on. If you’re ready to discuss yours, we’d like to hear about it.
The Challenge: Vacation Home Scale Without Hotel Distance
A vacation home this size can feel borrowed. Impressive in photos, impersonal in person — like you’re staying somewhere rather than arriving somewhere. The brief here was the opposite: design a vacation home that feels inhabited even when it’s hosting thirty people, and feels personal even when it’s empty.
The solution was layering. Every room in this vacation home carries at least three scales of detail — architectural, furniture-scale, and surface-level. At any point, you’re never more than a foot from something that rewards a closer look. That’s what makes a vacation home feel inhabited rather than staged.
“In a vacation home, every room has to earn the trip.”
How We Designed the Below-Grade Speakeasy
The below-grade level of this vacation home was originally scoped as media and storage. We converted it into a fully realized bar and lounge — one that shares a material thread with the floors above but diverges completely in atmosphere. It is not an extension of the vacation home. It is its best-kept secret.
Backlit art panels solve the lighting problem without announcing themselves as a solution. From across the room, they read as large-format art. Up close, they become the light source. The room glows from the walls instead of the ceiling — and that single shift changes everything about how the space feels after dark.
The staircase connecting all three levels of the vacation home uses the same material palette throughout — consistent railing detail, consistent tread profile at every transition. Continuity like this is easy to overlook and impossible to replace. It’s what makes a multi-level vacation home feel like one thing rather than three.
Frequently Asked
The work in this portfolio is the standard we hold ourselves to on every project — not just the celebrated ones. We take on a limited number of engagements each year, which means the projects we commit to receive our full attention from the first conversation through the final installation. If you're considering a renovation, a new build, or a full redesign, tell us about your home. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit — and what working together would look like.Your home should stop you. Every time you walk in.
