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To dream, to see, to make. Interior & Architectural designer. Partner McAlpine House. Collections with Hickory Chair + Visual Comfort & Co.

09/03/2026

We believe a house owes its inhabitants a true reflection of themselves. When we studied our client’s joyful disposition and her signature habit of always dressing in white, it became our North Star for this Nashville home. Every corner was designed to mirror that same light spirit, from the bright architecture of the main salon to a Dutch door built for a very happy golden retriever.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Architecture: McALPINE
Photographer: Simon Upton Photography
As featured in: Traditional Home

09/01/2026

We started at that kitchen as kind of ground zero. Every plan needs one room the rest of the house can be argued from, and on this one, the modern Nashville house, that room was always going to be the kitchen. Once that was right, everything around it got easier to decide.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Architecture: Ray Booth Design, McALPINE
DOP: Dane Deaner
Video Production: Meena Consulting
Landscape Architect: Kaiser Trabue Landscape Arch
As featured in: Milieu Magazine

08/31/2026

I am joining the incredible for Reflections on Design, an intimate conversation and book signing in the showroom, sponsored by . We will be reflecting on the evolution of our work, our creative journeys, and the client relationships that have shaped us, celebrating the release of Jay's Modern Classic: Tailored Homes, Timeless Style and my own The Expressive Home: Architecture and Interiors. September 24th at 3:00 PM, Suite 413 in Atlanta, Georgia. I hope to see you there, link to RSVP is in bio.

08/29/2026

I don't put a piece in my own house unless I would defend it under oath. This is my home, room by room: the kitchen I cook in every morning, the table where my family eats, the chair I sit in and stare at nothing before bed, even the fireplace where we still burn real wood on cold nights.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Architecture: Ray Booth Design, McALPINE
Photographer: Simon Upton

08/27/2026

A ladder in a library isn't really there to reach the top shelf. It's there to remind you the room goes further than what you can see from the floor. We designed this one floor to ceiling so the framed pieces stay low and still, at rest, while the books climb past them into the shadow above the sconces. Architecture is how we see, and a library is the one room where we get to design for curiosity instead of comfort. The ladder is just punctuation... the real idea is that a room can ask you to climb before you have even opened a book.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Architecture: McALPINE
Photographer: Eric Piasecki
As featured in: MILIEU Magazine

08/25/2026

This was one of those favorite jobs we get to do, the kind where you get to use every tool in the box. When architecture and interiors both belong to you, nothing has to get forced into being a nail just because you're holding a hammer.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Architecture: Ray Booth Design, McALPINE
Landscape Architect: Kaiser Trabue Landscape Arch
DOP: Dane Deaner
Video Production: Meena Consulting
As featured in: Milieu Magazine

08/22/2026

I think of powder bathrooms as the jewel boxes of a home. They're mighty in the minuscule: four walls and no one lives in there long enough to get tired of it. That's exactly why it's the one room where I encourage being bold. The wallpaper you'd never commit to in a living room, the marble that's almost too much, a single perfect sconce. Every one of these came from a different house, a different client, but the instinct was the same: give people one small, saturated moment they don't expect. Editing is the key to happiness everywhere else in the house. In the powder bath, I get to break that rule on purpose.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE

08/18/2026

This 1960s Nashville stone house never needed a redesign. It needed permission to be itself again. Under decades of pattern and color, the honey stone walls, the arched windows, the timber beams were all still there, just buried. Editing is the key to happiness, and here that meant taking things away until the house could finally say what it always wanted to say. Rambling, English-inspired, honest.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Renovation Architecture: Ray Booth Design, McALPINE
Photographer: Tim Lenz
As featured in: 1stDibs, LUXE Interiors + Design

08/13/2026

An interior isn't about furniture. It's about what a family actually does in a room. A branch-form chandelier hangs over a family room built for real use, leather chairs, layered rugs, a coffee table clearly meant to hold feet, not just flowers. Down the hall, an oversized antiqued mirror leans into the dining room like it's been there for decades. Nothing here is precious. It's collected, layered, lived in.

Interiors: Ray Booth Design of McALPINE
Architecture: McALPINE
Photographer: Pieter Estersohn Photography
As featured in: LUXE Interiors + Design

08/12/2026

Our hearts are with Colombia following the devastating 7.4 magnitude earthquake. We are supporting the Colombian Red Cross - Cruz Roja Colombiana as their search and rescue teams deliver urgent aid on the ground. For those looking to join the relief efforts, we have shared some ways you can help at the link in our bio.

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225 Polk Avenue, Suite 220
Nashville, TN
37203

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http://www.mcalpinehouse.com/, https://rayboothdesign.com/

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