PDX, OR 2025

Design Notes: This project was especially meaningful, as it truly created important life change for our clients! As a multigenerational home, aging parents were still climbing a flight of stairs every night as their bedroom was upstairs, with the only fully-functional bathroom on the main floor. Their adult daughter’s bedroom was on the main floor, but to create ease for her parents, she shared the room so they could nap there during the day, and keep their clothes and belongings on the main floor, meaning she didn’t have her own independent space. The main floor bedroom still had children’s wallpaper from the 70’s & shag carpet covering the gorgeous hardwoods, which didn’t seem fitting for our nearly 40-year old client.

Enter The Overall Designers! We pulled out that shag carpet & gave the bedroom walls a fresh start before relocating mom & dad and all their belongings downstairs. Limiting the need for stair-climbing is a critical safety element to designing for folks aging in place. Then we helped them sort & empty a lifetime of storage from the upstairs and created a lovely loft apartment so our client could get the best 40th birthday gift - an autonomous space! We repaired the semi-functional upstairs bathroom so she had her own full bath, designed a gorgeous walk-in closet (she had never had a closet all to herself!), gave her a peaceful bedroom, and a multi-purpose living/office/fitness space in the main area. Now when she works from home, she doesn’t have to set up at the kitchen table, and she can host friends in her loft! Most importantly, everyone in the home now has their own beautiful space that fits their individual needs! We were so honored to help & couldn’t be happier for them!