Architecturally informed interiors
Publishing guides and tools through The Design Lab, with consultations available by inquiry. Full project work is not currently offered at this time.
Who
REBECCA
ELROY
Interior Designer
I’m Rebecca Elroy, an interior designer based in Portland, Oregon. My background is in architecture and interior architecture. That training means I work at the level of spatial systems, envelope conditions, circulation, and construction logic. These are the decisions that determine whether a room works. Finishes follow from there.
In 2020 I completed dual Master’s degrees in Architecture and Interior Architecture at the University of Oregon. I’ve worked in firms in New York, Seattle, Portland, and Jackson, Wyoming on hotels, restaurants, office suites, civic projects, and residential interiors. The work spans renovations, adaptive reuse, layouts, architectural details, lighting design, and material specification.
Studio Elroy is the home for design education and residential consultation. The Design Lab is where I publish residential design guides, tools, and frameworks for homeowners doing the work themselves. Consultations are available by inquiry.
The hard part isn't picking a paint color. The hard part is knowing what you don't know.
Most homeowners take on a renovation having never done one before. They walk into the project with hundreds of questions and no obvious place to ask them. Where do you start. What gets decided first. What can wait. What can be undone later, and what can't.
I built Studio Elroy to close that gap. The Design Lab is where the methodology gets written down and made available without a retainer. Consultations are available by inquiry.
Layout. Lighting. Decisions.
Five areas where consultations make the most difference. Each one represents a decision homeowners commonly get wrong without help, and one I can help you think through in a single session.
Focus One
Layout & Space Planning
Where most consultation time goes. A countertop can be replaced. A bad layout follows the people living in the space for as long as they live there. Catching it before construction starts is the whole job.
Focus Two
Lighting Design
Three-layer composition specified room by room. Ambient, task, accent. Specifications written before fixtures are sourced, not the other way around.
Focus Three
Furniture Direction
Sourcing direction and scale guidance. What works in the room, what doesn't, and why. Trade-only resources where applicable.
Focus Four
Material & Finish Selection
Paint, tile, flooring, countertops, cabinetry. The decisions that shape the look and feel of every room. Direction on what to choose and what to avoid.
Focus Five
Renovation Planning
Upstream of design work. What to renovate, in what order, with what budget. The thinking that turns ambition into a buildable plan.
Consultations · Available by inquiry
Tell me about your project.
Share a few details and I'll respond within a few days with availability, pricing, and whether a consultation is a good fit for what you're working on.
Renovation is a puzzle. The pieces are money, time, structure, materials, light, and the way a family actually lives in their house.
Solving it well means asking the right questions in the right order and trusting the homeowner to make the call once the options are clear. That trust is the thing most missing from how this industry usually works.
If a piece of that resonates, the guides and tools at The Design Lab are written from the same place.