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08/18/2026

Clients we adore you. But define small 🫠😅

08/10/2026

Summer’s ending. Camp doesn’t have to.

The Summer Camp aesthetic had its moment this summer, and we are here for the hype. It’s all about celebrating aged timber walls, stone hearths, wool blankets folded at the foot of the bed. Lantern light. Screen doors. Bringing the outside in.

What we love about this aesthetic is its honesty. It’s a reminder of youth, of 90s summers and simpler times, reimagined for the way we live now. A vintage pennant beside a hand-thrown vessel. Forest green against warm neutrals. Nothing matches, yet everything belongs. Chessy would approve (👋 all our Parent Trap fans out there)

It’s nostalgia you can live in, a house that feels less like a showroom and more like a place with a past.

The lesson for any home: bring the outdoors in, layer with intention, creativity, and vintage, and let objects with history carry the story. Summer may end, but camp never has to close. ✨

07/08/2026

We promise it’s worth it 😅😅😅

07/01/2026

Currently: sourcing fabrics for a new project.

Also currently: still obsessing over Dries Van Noten tassel moment from his Autumn/Winter collection earlier this year.

Our upcoming designs may or may not be a bit inspired.

06/30/2026

Let’s talk conversation pits and how they’re making a comeback...or perhaps they never left?

Hospitality at its core has always been about one thing. Bringing people together and making them feel comfortable, considered.

And the conversation pit is one intentional way to do exactly that. They’re relics of a simpler time — when when there was more time. When having people over meant “sitting down and staying for a while.”

The pit was architecture as invitation. A room that held you. I rose around you, and said, “Stay, linger, there’s nowhere else to be.” Humans have been gathering in carved out spaces around fires for millennia; the conversation pit is just that same ancient instinct, cushioned and intentional.

They peaked in the 60s and 70s, when that kind of hosting was still the norm. And they faded with it. As evenings got shorter and schedules got fuller and socializing started to mean something faster, something easier to leave.

Good news for conversation pits (and for us), the appetite for longer tables, slower evenings, phones face-down, conversations that actually go somewhere – is returning.

We are moving back to that culture. Back to the belief that an evening with people you love is worth designing a room around.

And the conversation pit is ready to welcome us back.

06/23/2026

Booth seating isn’t just a vibe. It’s the reason some tables feel like destinations.

In restaurants, guests in booths linger longer, order more, and leave glowing. But the magic isn’t exclusive to hospitality — it’s a human experience that we like to extend to our residential projects too.

The gentle enclosure, the soft upholstery, the sense of being held by a space rather than just sitting in one. Bring that into a home and something shifts. Dinners stretch longer. Conversations go deeper. People don’t want to leave the table and go home (for better or worse 😉)

That’s what happens when hospitality design comes home. It stops being about square footage and starts being about how a room feels to live in, exist in, and build a home in. And that feeling? It’s everything.

06/17/2026

Nature has been the original muse for texture, pattern, and movement — long before any of us had opinions on the matter. The grain of wood, the swirl of mineral, the architecture of coral, the quiet luxury of feathers. Every great design begins here, at nature’s mood board.

KOKET feather wallcoverings carry that artistry indoors. Sustainably sourced peacock, pheasant, quail, and guinea feathers are hand applied to create surfaces of extraordinary depth, softness, and variation. No two panels are alike, which means no two installations ever will be.

It would be an absolute dream to weave these into a project 🤞💫

06/15/2026

Currently moodboarding, sourcing, and pinning everything we love lately for a few upcoming client projects (which we can’t wait to share with you soon!) Here’s what’s on our radar right now — we’d love to know what’s on yours. Drop it below!

03/09/2026

We love when design tells a story 💕

The Founding Farmers aesthetic is a modern twist on the spirit of the farmhouse. At Alexandria Lumber & Light leaned into playful heritage details, craftsmanship, whimsy, and familiar materials and forms brought to life in fun, surprising ways.
These photos capture some of our favorite moments in the space: American hardwoods, elaborate wallcoverings, honest materials, gorgeous custom lighting, and a sense of joy in every detail. 💛

Located just minutes for Washington, DC, Founding Farmers Alexandria spans about 9,200 square feet, with 234 dining seats and 20 bar stools. The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus brunch on weekends and select holidays. A bakery & café offers house-made coffee, chocolate, pastries and sweet treats to go.

Client: Alexandria
Interior Design: Lumber & Light
Architecture:
General Contractor:
Kitchen Design: Culinary Advisors
MEP: K2 Engineering
Lighting Design: Lighting Workshop
Photos:

03/24/2025

Sweet dreams are made of (ceiling) beams and here are some we’re loving lately.

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