This penthouse suite, atop a high-rise condominium, is overlooking Town Lake in Austin, Texas. Sawyer Design Associates, where Jennifer worked at the time, was in competition for the design of this penthouse, which was owned by one of the firm’s client. SDA was up against a well-known Dallas designer. Jennifer created and presented the layout, the concept of the suite and the elevations. The client preferred our design over the other. The preliminary role Jennifer played in this project, as well as the continual oversight of the design, lead to an award winning project.

This bedroom, in the Austin penthouse, was created to maximize on space and storage. The bed was surrounded by a built-in, incorporating the nightstands and an armoire on both sides for closet storage. The use of clean lines made the space feel like a modern Metropolitan haven, but the color palette that Jennifer and the team choose, helped the room feel very warm and inviting.

This powder bath is located in the Austin penthouse. Each room in the penthouse is its own jewel. The materials in this space make it special; the mosaic tiles, the onyx sink, and the custom Venetian plaster on the walls.

This bathroom was designed for the penthouse in Austin. The floating cabinets and the dramatic lighting made this bathroom very functional and yet feel like a five-star hotel bathroom.

This award winning leasing office and clubroom is located in an upscale apartment complex in downtown Ft. Worth and was an incredible project for SDA. Jennifer and the lead architect creatively used contemporary architecture and a traditional Cowboy flair, found in Texas, and combined them to make this unique space. Incorporated into the space was a lit chef’s table for cooking classes, a wine room for those savvy dwellers and a center lounge area with a large fireplace and a two story entertainment wall.

The clubroom, to the complex located in Ft. Worth, was a very multi-purpose space. The table shown here was custom designed to seat a large group who might want to have a dinner party, enjoy the cooking classes or enjoy a wine tasting. The glow of the table was designed to set it off from any other. It adds that WOW factor to the room!

This seating group in the Ft. Worth project had clean lines yet has pleasurable and colorful patterns. It is also fun to throw in an animal print in your space to add contrast.

The multi-functional space in Ft. Worth also included this wine room, with individual wine storage, for tenants to use during a cooking class or while laying by the pool. In this room, Jennifer kept the feel a bit more masculine, like an old cigar room in a steakhouse.

This clubhouse, created at SDA, was the second phase for an upscale apartment in Ft. Worth, Texas. The client wanted to keep the clean lines of the first phase but wanted to add more warmth to the color palette. This open kitchen concept utilized many textures from natural stone, to embossed ceramic tiles and the combination of glass and wood for the cabinets.

This clubhouse is located in the heart of Las Colinas and was created while Jennifer was working at SDA. The space was a challenge from the shell of the building. It had lots of angles that tend to waste valuable space. The large space was broken into smaller functional spaces which lead to smaller rooms with large ceilings, so Jennifer and the team had to really work to keep the scale of the rooms proportionate. The walls in the two main areas were broken up into two story vignettes. The two story area in the clubroom, shown in the picture, made a great place to enclose some great banquettes for reading or extra seating. The sophisticated lines of the furniture, the classical art and the custom medallion rugs were all pieces that made this inspirational room an award winning project.

Jennifer and the design team designed this cooking space, used in the Las Colinas clubhouse, to be warm with pops of more muted colors of orange and green. The textures they used made this a very interesting and upscale kitchen.

The concept for the clubroom in Las Colinas was to make this dining area a fabulous focal point to the space. Jennifer and the design team designed this multi-pendant lighting feature to suspend from inside this splayed ceiling. They hung these full-length draped panels on the windows to enhance the grandness of this space. What an incredible space for the tenants to have a dinner party!

Jennifer and the lead architect took this vast amount of space, large and tall, and created 4 individual spaces that still flowed together with an open gallery feel. This project is in Kansas City and was awarded to SDA to design. They designed this huge wall and splayed it, at an angle, through the space, visually dividing the entry and leasing from the tenant spaces; the business center and the clubroom. They suspended this brightly colored, decorative ceiling for way-finding and to also add dimension to the immense ceiling. They also suspended the custom light fixtures from a circle design we added to the decorative ceiling. The fixtures created a line of sight into the clubroom beyond. Additionally, they visually enhanced this detail with a floor treatment that followed the pattern on the ceiling. Finally, Jennifer and the team clad the large wall, splitting the room, with a decorative paneling that created its own artwork throughout the space.

This is the clubroom in the Kansas City property. They lowered the ceiling in this space for intimacy and scale; however, they also continued the decorative ceiling treatment from the entry into this seating area. The treatment dies into this white tiled wall, inset with a gas, sliver fireplace.

SDA was working on this project in Houston when it sold during construction, which shut the project down. The new owners hired the SDA design team back to complete the job keeping the original design that Jennifer and the design team created but making some changes using their owner and management requirements. The original concept was a very clean Eastern feel with cool and subdued colors but many textures. This room is a multi-function space divided into 4 parts: a wine room, a poker room, a conference/tasting room and a large lavatory. The team loved designing this custom fixture above the large table. This space is warm and comfortable yet has so much energy!

This was one of Jennifer’s first projects at Vincent Associates, early in her design career. Two Rows Restaurant and Brewery was a fabulous project with great clients driving her to excel her design talents. The architect and Jennifer worked closely with the challenge of taking the previous Friday’s space in Old Town, Dallas and turning it into a restaurant with a full service, on-site brewery. The entire, multi-tiered space had to be leveled and they started from scratch to meet the guidelines & needs of the American Disabilities Act. Jennifer said it was such a reward to be involved in this project. Jennifer continued to help them with their next two locations in Houston and another off the North Dallas Toll way.

This restaurant was designed while Jennifer was working at Duncan & Miller Design. Kimberley Miller, the lead architect and Jennifer worked closely with renowned chef, Michael Richard, on his well-known Citronelle restaurant in Georgetown, DC. They created a space for Michael that focused on what he does best: Food! They designed a chef table in the kitchen in the days before the chef table became cliché. The chef’s table was completely dedicated to the kitchen and enclosed in glass. At this table, Michael Richard would personally cook for you. The team also designed a completely temperature controlled wine room surrounding the dining room. The same team also designed the Citronelle in Santa Barbara, CA for Michael.

This bar was located in the lobby of the Doubletree in San Antonio, TX. Jennifer worked on this project at Duncan & Miller Design. The room had this existing quatrefoil window that the design team kept and made the focal point of the bar by enhancing it with the banquette and drapes. The space was also small and linear, so to increase the seating, they designed and cantilevered bar tops on the wall opposite the bar. They accented the ceiling of the bar and darken the rest so that the bar visually popped in the space. The lobby bar was a huge success!

This was one of Jennifer’s first projects at Duncan & Miller Design. The picture is of the lobby in the Palm Springs Doubletree in California. This lobby went on to earn many awards in the design industry.