Cabinetry and counters
Door styles, wood and paint finishes, and counters such as the honed quartz in the Roseville kitchen.
The rooms and details that decide how a home lives, chosen to work every day and age well.
Kitchen, Bath & Architectural Selections is the studio’s second service group. It covers the hard finishes: cabinetry, counters, tile, stone, hardware, lighting, flooring and appliances, for a renovation or a new build.
These are the decisions that are expensive to change later, so they come first. On a new build, Veronica joins the conversation with the architect or builder early, while millwork heights, the lighting plan and the way a kitchen window meets the backsplash are still easy to adjust.
Hard finishes come before paint, fabric and furniture, so the sofa is never chosen before the floor.
Door styles, wood and paint finishes, and counters such as the honed quartz in the Roseville kitchen.
Wall, floor and shower tile, mosaics and natural stone, including niches and patterned floors.
Faucets, fixtures, tubs and cabinet hardware, often in warm brass.
Pendants, chandeliers, sconces and the lighting plan, decided before the walls close up.
Wood, tile and stone floors chosen for the whole house, not one room at a time.
Appliance selection that fits the cabinetry plan and how you cook.
A Colleyville bath traded beige tumbled tile for blue stacked tile, a brass-framed mosaic niche and a patterned floor. The Roseville kitchen gave up heavy Tuscan finishes for soft gray cabinetry, honed quartz and a clean backsplash. Tap any photo to see it larger.






Flooring, cabinetry, counters, tile, plumbing and lighting are set before wall color, drapery and rugs, and furniture comes last. Choosing in that order keeps every later choice working with what is already built. On a whole house, the hard finishes also follow one palette, so the same stone or metal can repeat from room to room.
Bath renovations range from a full gut to keeping the bones and changing everything you see.
A full-gut renovation: a light oak double vanity, softly veined tile and warm brass accents.
Periwinkle walls and a built-in tub gave way to deep navy, a freestanding tub, brass fixtures and an encaustic-tiled shower, anchored by the original arched window.
Gray tile and a glass-block wall replaced by cream stone and a frameless glass shower, with the clawfoot tub kept at the center.
Three bathrooms in one year, after the kitchen, dinette and great room were finished.
"I do my best to stay within budget, but not compromise on quality."Veronica Eckhardt, replying to a Google review
Send a few photos of the room as it is today and tell us what isn’t working. We will talk through where to start.