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Branding With Uniforms

It is crucial in a commercial project that even the smallest details support the brand concept. The staff t-shirts at Goat Hollow were a perfect example. The owners liked the simplicity and ease of a t-shirt but a traditional restaurant logo printed t-shirt wasn’t the right fit to become an important design feature. We asked […]

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Custom Wallpaper

Julia Blaukopf is a world traveled artist and photographer. We were strongly encouraged to collaborate with her on creating something for Goat Hollow. Finding inspiration was easy; we liked Julia’s work. The challenge was how to make Julia’s work original to Mt. Airy. Finding the appropriate decorative element for Goat Hollow was a key part […]

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Goat Hollow Restaurant

Owner of the Race St Café, seasoned Philadelphia restaurateur, Neil Campbell and his partner Andy “Shake” Shahan, hired Design Nehez to re-invent the interiors of the beloved Mt Airy restaurant Goat Hollow. I grew up three blocks from the original Goat Hollow on Mt. Pleasant Avenue. Back in the day, Goat Hollow was known for […]

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Crystal bulbs!

A fresh take on the bare bulb http://remodelista.com/products/lee-broom-crystal-bulbs

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Condo project

This is the view from a new renovation project we have in the Society Hill Towers. It is stunning especially at night. The other side of the condo has a view of the Ben Franklin bridge.

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Coco de paris at Goat Hollow

We used a Coco de Paris http://www.etsy.com/shop/Cocodeparis goat print to create wallpaper in the upstairs bathroom

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Goat Hollow is complete!

Upstairs dining at Goat Hollow.

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Lake House

A small un-insulated lakeside summer cottage was in need of some renovations in the Catskills. The clients wanted to preserve the interior cabin feel, while updating the house to be fully winterized. The result of this challenge was to build a structure around the existing house in order to fully insulate from the outside. This […]

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Val Nehez – Principal

“There was also the idea that designers, if they’re good, don’t just have the ability to create something out of nothing. They have a sensibility, seeing what others can’t see, empathizing with peoples aspirations.” Gianfranco Zaccai Continuum Val Nehez is enjoying a second life in Philadelphia. After growing up in West Mt. Airy and attending […]

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Boathouse

The women’s locker room at the University Barge Club boathouse was originally constructed around twenty years ago when there were only a dozen women members. Since the number of women has now tripled, the locker room was being outgrown. A renovation was necessary to add a third shower and more lockers. We were able to […]

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JJ Fox – Senior Designer

Wallpaper pattern, British magazine Elle Decoration, fashion, the landscape and grit of the city, beautifully worn objects at flea markets are some of the disparate influences that drove JJ to a career in Interior Design.  Encounters with these passions while living and studying in London in the early nineties fostered her growing desire to bring these elements […]

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Kelly Ennis – Principal

“We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability…We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.” – Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness   While receiving her […]

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Repurposed fireplace mantle

During the time we were working on the Tasker Street row home in South Philadelphia we were also exploring ways to repurpose architectural salvage pieces as functional and decorative pieces for a home. We found an ornate doorframe at Restore, the highly curated architectural salvage store in the Frankford area of Philadelphia. The door pediment, […]

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Repurposed copper pipe

For towel bars and the toilet paper holder, we retrofitted off-the-shelf copper piping from Home Depot. The copper metal sheen was a perfect compliment to the existing palette. I have also used these same copper pipes as curtain rods and closet rails.

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Repurposed fence pot rack

This found piece of wrought iron fence was perfect to both hook pots and as a shelf for bowls and strainers.

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Repeating elements

In the homes I design, I repeat a few design elements throughout the home to create harmony instead of using new elements in each room. One of the architect’s signature details in the Hermit Street house was the use of random-sized, different colored glass window walls. Many of these window walls were in bad condition. […]

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