City Haven

We are so proud to have received a Gold Award in IIDA’s Mid America Design Awards for our City Haven Project! CIty Haven City Haven was purchased for its proximity and bike-ability to restaurants, groceries, and entertainment. Though the location was alluring, the...

Recent Publication by LOVE Property

Offering the option to tuck your screen away completely, this example by Lisa Schmitz Interior Design uses a sliding screen set within a rustic unit that can be used to reveal or conceal your screen from view. In fact, this whole set-up is an expert lesson in the art...

Kansas City | Are you IN?

We were excited for our Corbin project to be published in the first IN Kansas City magazine. Read the online article here. P.S. We love how Tom Corbin’s Corvus sculpture looks on his dining table…or any dining table. Corvus Edition 60 10”H, 11”D, 55”W...

Inspired | To Take Shape

Have we ever mentioned that we love what we do? As folks who give through visual expression, we see, we imagine, we make it happen (the design process), then we get to see the space take shape. What was once inspired by that one thing that we saw in the beginning, has...

Team-time | And An Afternoon Hello

  A quick Thursday afternoon hello to you! The Lisa Schmitz Interior Design Team welcomed Andie Glinn last summer and Leslie Mark soon after. We have so enjoyed having a full and productive studio, with very exciting projects in the works. On a less busy note we...
Pick Your Palette

Pick Your Palette

A big perk of our jobs as interior designers is leading clients through visioning and discovery early in the design process. Today we hosted an exploratory charette to identify which themes resonate most with our client as well as to identify aesthetic preferences. We...

Busy Bees | NYC

Hello there! How is your week going? We leave for ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair) this weekend and cannot wait to be in the city and gain inspiration to bring back to our design work! We are very busy with a couple new projects and several existing...

Design | Our Process

Hello to you and goodbye rain (Kansas Citian’s are well soaked by now)! We want to share a part of our design process with you for our skyview project. This week we had a design charette to discuss the details, specific design elements, refine finishes, etc.  As...