Pedro Lima Interiors

05/31/2026

A Room Designed for Connection

Not every home office is designed for work alone.

For this lake home, our client wanted a space that could support the many roles she plays in her community—planning events, meeting with local organizations, hosting conversations, and gathering with close friends. The goal was to create a room that felt both productive and welcoming, where work and hospitality could comfortably coexist.

Soft textures, layered patterns, and feminine details bring warmth and personality to the space, while the expansive windows connect the room to the beauty of the lake property beyond. The result is a room that feels elegant, inviting, and deeply personal—a place for ideas, relationships, and meaningful moments.

Because sometimes the most important work happens around a conversation.

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05/14/2026

Honored to receive a Silver Award at the 2025 ASID Wisconsin Design Excellence Awards for The Jewel Box Bar & Lounge in the Residential Single Room category.

Located within a 20,000-square-foot lakeside residence, this lower-level space was originally intended as a playroom for visiting children. The redesign reimagined it as a refined yet relaxed entertaining retreat — one that embraces the home’s lake views while creating a layered atmosphere for gathering, conversation, and celebration.

Positioned directly beneath a dramatic 30-foot-high octagonal great room, the architecture of the lounge responds to and reinforces the geometry above through articulated ceiling planes, reconstructed octagonal columns, custom lighting, and material transitions that bring clarity and rhythm to the space.

Deep blue lacquered millwork, warm metallic accents, natural stone, and layered lighting create an environment that shifts effortlessly from daytime hospitality to evening ambiance. At the center of the room, a custom five-tier octagonal cocoa bead chandelier — handmade in Indonesia and designed specifically for the scale of the space — anchors the experience below.

Grateful to the clients, collaborators, craftspeople, and partners who helped bring this project to life, and to ASID Wisconsin for the recognition.

Photography by Ryan Hainey.

04/24/2026

The kitchen was intended to function as the center of the home, particularly as a second residence where gathering becomes the primary use, which led to organizing the space around a large central island with seating on all sides so that circulation, use, and occupancy can happen at the same time without interruption, with the plan extending directly into the great room to maintain a continuous spatial relationship that feels connected but still defined.

The palette is kept light and controlled to maintain clarity across the space, and because the house predates the renovation, the work focuses on maintaining the existing architectural integrity while introducing a more open and usable layout, allowing the intervention to read as integrated and consistent with the structure rather than separate from it.
Kitchen design, bi-regional interior design, kitchen design inspiration, coastal homes

04/23/2026

Different places demand different responses.

In Nokomis, that response started with elevation—raising the home 12 feet to meet coastal conditions. From there, the design opened up: shaded outdoor living below, light-filled spaces above, and a stronger connection to the landscape.

Climate, light, and pace shift—but the discipline behind the decisions does not.

The result is a home that belongs to its setting, while still feeling part of a larger, cohesive body of work.
Bi-regional interior design, bi-regional interior designer, coastal homes, coastal home design

04/14/2026

Part of a larger commercial renovation for our client Digitek Digital in Waukesha, this showroom was designed as a series of immersive zones that demonstrate how technology integrates into everyday living.

We developed the design drawings for the full project, shaping spaces that feel residential in scale and atmosphere. In this entertaining zone, the focus is on warmth, comfort, and a quiet hospitality sensibility.

A circular sofa anchors the room and orients around a large-scale front projection system, creating a natural gathering point where lighting, media, and material come together in a way that feels intuitive and lived-in.

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Hospitality design, commercial interior design, design process, Waukesha interior designer

04/03/2026

One of the final moments of this project, this space sits in a tight, lower-level footprint that began unfinished and with very little natural light, so we leaned into reflective materials, glass, and metal to help move light through it while the custom apron-front counter wraps you in and gives the space a sense of purpose rather than just function, with the stone’s quiet horizontal movement playing against the irregular pattern of the tile to keep the room from feeling static and allow a small footprint to carry a surprising amount of presence.

Positioned just outside a gym bath, it needed to feel durable and grounded but also considered, becoming a small study in material exploration where every element had to earn its place, and that clarity—along with a comfort in working within tight, slightly irregular spaces—goes back to my time in New York, where constraints sharpen decisions and the result, when done well, feels not limited but intentional and inviting.
Material intelligence, interior detailing, atelier-informed design, material selection

03/30/2026

Designed for a professional musician and executive with a deep appreciation for all things beautiful, this space was shaped around gathering—of friends, of family, and of moments that allow for both connection and renewal. The focus was on creating an environment that feels as good as it looks, supporting everything from lively evenings to quiet, restorative pauses.

Layered, warm, and intentional, the result is a space that feels elevated yet completely at ease.
Hospitality design, residential hospitality, hospitality thinking, living and hosting

03/28/2026

Thank you to Mike Franz of Kahler Slater and the team at JP Cullen for opening your doors to our Mount Mary University Interior Architecture and Design students for such an incredible and intimate project tour in Verona. It was truly inspiring to see the collaboration between Kahler Slater and JP Cullen in real time—the level of coordination, communication, and shared commitment to the work was a powerful thing for our students to witness within a live, evolving project.

Experiences like this, particularly within INT 204: Building Construction, offer a depth of understanding that simply cannot be replicated in the classroom, and the opportunity to return in the coming months to see the project near completion makes it all the more meaningful. Congratulations to Mike on his recent appointment as Partner at Kahler Slater—we are incredibly fortunate to have him on our faculty and deeply appreciate the knowledge, leadership, and generosity he brings to our students.

03/20/2026

Light behaves differently depending on where you are. Corridors, stairs, and thresholds tend to reveal those shifts more clearly. When light is considered carefully, even simple spaces feel more intentional.
Natural light, transitional spaces, designing with natural light, staircase design

10/29/2025