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Julian Design "Shaping the Art of Living" Design Services, Custom Design, Drapery, Furniture, Lighting, Area Rugs, Fine Art, Accessories, Wall Finishes, Flooring and More...

One color can do many things.Here, teal moves across velvet, marble, and glass, changing as the daylight moves through t...
10/15/2026

One color can do many things.

Here, teal moves across velvet, marble, and glass, changing as the daylight moves through the room. Crystal at the window catches the lake light in the morning, while the mirror at the hearth reflects the warmth of the fire at night.

While the homeowner loves the color, it was never really the point. The atmosphere was.

We design to a feeling—we consider not only how a room looks, but how it lives–throughout the day, and throughout the years, and how it belongs to the people who call it home.

Like a fine custom-tailored suit, a Julian interior is shaped around the people who live there: their flow, their rituals, and the way they want to live.

See more of our work at www.julianinc.com/projects/

Every home we design starts with the people doing the designing, so it seems only fair you should know them too.Julie An...
09/11/2026

Every home we design starts with the people doing the designing, so it seems only fair you should know them too.

Julie Ann Witt has spent 45+ years in this industry, starting in a small Minnesota town and eventually building the model that today's big-box design showrooms would come to follow. She left that behind for something more personal, spending years learning from architects, builders, artists, and even Buddhist monks to arrive at the philosophy we still work by: shaping the art of living.

Billie Marie Tharaldson brings 20+ years of experience and a simple belief that guides her work: your home is a reflection of who you are, so it should be your best, your most joyful, your most beautiful. (Her dog Leo often joins her at the studio, in case you were wondering who else is on the team.)

Lacy Hughes has been in the field since 2008, with a talent for turning both her clients' visions and her own into something real. Her eye for detail and her problem-solving instincts are what keep every project moving smoothly from plan to finished room.

Different backgrounds, one shared standard: no formulas, no one-size-fits-all options. Just people developing the art of living.

Personal style isn't a mood board of trends. It's the pattern of what you're actually drawn to, repeated with intention ...
09/10/2026

Personal style isn't a mood board of trends. It's the pattern of what you're actually drawn to, repeated with intention until a room feels unmistakably yours.

It shows up in the color you keep returning to, the furniture that fits how you actually live rather than how a showroom displays it, the art you chose because it means something rather than because it matches. None of it needs to be loud. Consistency is what makes a home feel personal, not volume.

That's the work behind every space we design: fewer decisions made for effect, more made because they're true to you. The result isn't a style you're borrowing. It's one you already had, brought into focus.

A home should fit with the precision of a custom suit. Not a template, not a trend, something tailored to how you actual...
09/07/2026

A home should fit with the precision of a custom suit. Not a template, not a trend, something tailored to how you actually live.

That starts with listening. Before a single material is chosen, we spend real time understanding lifestyle, priorities, and how a family moves through a day. From there, design becomes problem solving: space planning that considers every square inch, electrical and lighting layered from task to decorative, a finish palette carried floor to ceiling, furnishings curated to complete the story. Then comes management and installation, every trade coordinated, every detail resolved, so the vision on paper becomes the home you actually walk into.

This is what full-service design means to us. Not decorating a room. Building a space that reflects both the architecture and the life it's meant to support.

A home is more than where you live. It's how you live. Let’s design a space made for you.

Some homes are decorated room by room. This one was designed as a single, continuous thought.The wood tones in the great...
09/06/2026

Some homes are decorated room by room. This one was designed as a single, continuous thought.

The wood tones in the great room ceiling reappear in the stair treads. The iron balusters echo the black hardware in the kitchen. Stone and marble aren't matched, they're related, the way materials in a well-loved home always are. The layout keeps the kitchen open to the living and dining spaces, so no one's ever cooking apart from the conversation.

That's the difference between decorating a house and designing a home — one adds things to a room, the other starts with how people actually live in it. 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥.

Will what looks good now still feel right later?We ask ourselves that before a single fabric swatch is chosen. Trends mo...
09/04/2026

Will what looks good now still feel right later?

We ask ourselves that before a single fabric swatch is chosen. Trends move fast, and it's easy to fall for something because it's beautiful in the moment. But a home isn't a moment. It's where you'll make coffee for the next ten years, where your kids will do homework at the counter, where you'll curl up on a bench after a long day.

So before we design anything, we listen. We want to know how you actually live — not how a magazine says you should. What a quiet Tuesday morning feels like. What a Saturday full of people sounds like. Those small, honest details are what shape a space that still feels like you, years from now.

That's the difference between a home that photographs well and one that's truly yours.

Have a space you want to get right, not just right now?

Every project begins the same way: with a question, not a style.Before the finishes are chosen or the furnishings arrive...
09/03/2026

Every project begins the same way: with a question, not a style.

Before the finishes are chosen or the furnishings arrive, Julian Design starts by understanding how a space needs to work — where the dinner gets made, how the light falls at 4pm, what a family actually does in the kitchen versus what they think they should do.

These early sketches aren't just drawings. They're the record of that listening. Every drawer, every sightline, every inch worked out around real life, long before it becomes a room.

Designed on purpose. Built around how you live.
Have a space that isn't quite working for you yet? Let's talk about what it could become.

This one was personal.Before it was a project, it was home. This bedroom began with a single architectural anchor—a deci...
08/17/2026

This one was personal.

Before it was a project, it was home. This bedroom began with a single architectural anchor—a decision that set the rhythm for everything that followed.

Working with Jim McNeil and the Consulate Collection, we let the master bed become a reference point: grand at the headboard, quieter at the foot. That play of scale echoed throughout the house, a deliberate rhythm rather than a repeated formula.
The result reads differently to everyone who sees it—some notice French influence, others Italian, others something more modern. But what holds it together isn't a style.

It's proportion. Consistency. Restraint.

Nothing redundant. Nothing missing.

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Designed on purpose.

One of the first questions we ask has nothing to do with furniture. We ask about the kitchen at 7am on a Tuesday.Not the...
08/15/2026

One of the first questions we ask has nothing to do with furniture. We ask about the kitchen at 7am on a Tuesday.

Not the dinner parties — the ordinary morning. The moment you walk in half-awake, reach for the coffee, wait for the kettle. What's in front of you in that moment? Where does your eye go? Does the room ask anything of you, or does it just let you stand there?

Most people have never thought about it, but their morning has.

The everyday sequence: Where the mug lives, what's within arm's reach, what you see before you've had your first sip… it all shapes how the kitchen feels three hundred and sixty five days a year. A counter that's always cluttered because there's nowhere else for things to go. A layout that makes you cross the room twice for the same task. A window that could've framed the morning light but doesn't. These things wear on you slowly, without ever announcing themselves.

The kitchens that feel easy were designed with that ordinary Tuesday in mind.
That's where the real work starts, long before anyone picks a countertop.
A kitchen meant to be lived in, not just looked at.

Learn more about our process at our website.

Matching is the easy version of cohesion.For a long time, good design was often mistaken for consistency. One wood tone....
07/31/2026

Matching is the easy version of cohesion.

For a long time, good design was often mistaken for consistency. One wood tone. One finish. One metal. Everything carefully coordinated.

It works. But some of the most memorable rooms feel a little more layered than that.

In this kitchen, the island and cabinetry don't match. The finishes shift. The materials bring different histories and different weights into the room. Yet nothing feels out of place.

What creates cohesion isn't sameness. It's intention.

The feeling that every decision belongs to the same story, even when the pieces themselves are different. The homes that remain interesting over time are often the ones that leave room for that complexity.

Every detail in service of the whole.

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Wayzata, MN
55391

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Monday 10am - 4pm
Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 3pm

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