Interior — Exterior — Remodeling
Design, remodeling, project estimates.
Threshold Design Co. is remodeling on a budget — keeping what you love about your home and making it more modern, more beautiful, more comfortable.
Services
One process, however you enter it — keep what you love, redo what you don't.
Whether you're refreshing a single room, budgeting a fixer-upper, or planning a full remodel, every project starts the same way — built around you and your family's needs.
Over the threshold
- Space planning & layout
- Color, material & finish selection
- Custom furnishings & sourcing
- Lighting design
- Renovation styling & staging
Outside the threshold
- Outdoor living & entertaining spaces
- Hardscape, structures & materials
- Exterior architectural detailing
- Porches, decks & entries
- Exterior color & material selection
Before the first wall comes down
- New home purchase consultation
- Whole-project & fixer-upper budget estimates
- Contractor contacts
- Prep-to-sell design
- High-value upgrades & landscape design referrals
One Room or the Whole Property
A single room refresh, a fixer-upper you're still deciding on, or a full remodel — porches, mudrooms, sunrooms, and entries included. The process starts the same way: what's worth keeping, and build around it.
Recent Work
Before and after.
Five projects, room by room — photographed before we started and again after the last piece went back in place.
Hailey Bungalow
Bachelor pad to Bungalow.
2940 Shenandoah is a stick-built 1980 house — originally 950 square feet, two bedrooms, one bath. It was remodeled once already in 1995, with a new kitchen and cabinets, a bathroom refresh, and bamboo floors, and on a tight budget here, we kept that work and spent our attention around it: warm white walls, chrome swapped for dusty pink ceramic fixtures and brushed brass hardware, hollow-core doors replaced with solid wood on brushed brass levers.
The one real construction project was turning a laundry closet off the living room into a second bathroom with a walk-in shower — the washer and dryer moved out to the heated, insulated garage, and a coat closet gave up its footprint to make the room work. Outside, we repainted the house a rich black, inspired by mountain homes we'd seen in Norway, pulled out the north side yard fence for a stone-and-paver path to a new sliding door on the garage, and replaced the house-to-garage door with full glass — daylight now travels the length of the house. A new garage door, in the same warm wood tone as the front door, finished it off.
Exterior & Garden
Backyard
Kitchen
Bathroom
Bedroom 1
Living Room
Powder Room
Hailey Three Bedroom
Outdated to updated.
2809 Glenbrook is a 1982 house that, as far as we could tell, had never been touched since — the small second floor may have come later, but it was hard to say for sure. The draw was the lot: large and extremely private. We bought it thinking some paint on the walls and cabinets would be enough. It was not.
The project grew into a full gut of the kitchen and both bathrooms, converting the laundry room, removing a large, obtrusive wood stove, and finishing the garage. Outside, we repainted the exterior, tore out the pony wall on the deck, and added hardscaping, HVAC, a sprinkler system, and a lot of trees and plants — putting the yard that brought us here to use.
Exterior
Backyard & Deck
Kitchen
Bathroom
Small Bathroom
Bedroom
Laundry Room → Office
Living Room
Dining
Bedroom 2
Bedroom 3
Wausau Cabin
Shack to chalet.
3313 North 11th Street is one of the first structures built in the Forest Park neighborhood — a hunting cabin from 1940 that the neighborhood eventually grew up around, into one of the more desirable pockets in town, now home to a middle school, a high school, a golf course, and the Sylvan Hill biking trails. Technically, it was a studio: one bathroom, no doors on any of the rooms, no closets anywhere. It had already been through plenty of upgrades by the time it got to us.
What sold us: the price, the neighborhood, the original trim still intact on every window and door, and the property itself — set on a hill thick with sugar maples and ferns. There are almost too many updates here to list in full, but the two biggest were bringing in real HVAC and adding the large screened-in porch that doubles the living space for half the year.
From there: the side door became a small sliding door that let in far more light, the kitchen was rebuilt from scratch, and the basement was finished with a bathroom added. Next to the main bath, a small room without a door became one with — turning it into a proper ensuite bedroom or office. Upstairs in the loft, we added wainscoting and a picture shelf, turning the knee-wall space into a cozy bedroom instead of just attic storage.
Rather than replace the old, mismatched siding, we painted the whole exterior Benjamin Moore's Evening Hush — a deep blue that shifts through the day depending on the light.
Exterior
Deck & Path
Kitchen
Guest Room
Stairwell Nook
Bedroom
Bathroom
Northstar Single Level
Basic builder to stand out.
We had to buy this house. It was priced almost like it was still 2020, in a genuinely great neighborhood — and a price tag that low comes with a catch. Renovation started with the boring, expensive stuff: a new furnace, gas fireplace, and water heater, duct cleaning, and refinishing the original hardwood floors. Still on the list: window replacement, a new driveway, and a new roof. This house had been used and abused — and don't get us started on the yard.
Inside, we pulled the carpet and the basic builder trim throughout. In its place: warm, modern cork flooring in the bedrooms, kitchen, and laundry room, and simple baseboards with a small detail over every doorway. The interior doors are original to 1995 — we kept them, painted them ivory white, and swapped in matte black hardware.
The entry got the most attention: 48-by-24-inch Italian tile at the threshold and a new half-glass oak front door, with a doorknob and deadbolt from Schoolhouse Hardware.
The bathrooms got heated natural slate floors, deep wood vanities topped in natural stone, soaking tubs, and simple tile in the alcove tub surrounds — simple rooms that read modern, with a little bit of lux.
The kitchen is where we saved money: paint on the existing cabinets, new brushed brass hardware, matte granite countertops, and new appliances.
Exterior
Kitchen
Living Room
Great Room
Dining Room
Bathroom
Small Bathroom
Bedroom
Backyard New addition — after only
Laundry Room New addition — after only
Avon Barn
Shed becomes a Studio apt.
The Avon Barn sat on eleven acres, used for nothing in particular for the better part of a decade — a small outbuilding waiting for someone to see it differently. One day we did, and got to work with a contractor willing to think creatively about it, keeping the original barn wood, the existing layout, and the arches that gave the space its character.
Heated cement floors went in throughout, finished in a turquoise stain that plays off the warm reclaimed wood instead of fighting it. The kitchen stayed apartment-scaled on purpose — compact appliances, maple countertops, a copper sink — sized to match a studio, not a family home.
The main living area kept its height and got a large garage door that opens the whole room to the outdoors, making indoor/outdoor living the point of the plan. The bedroom, by contrast, is deliberately small: room for a queen bed, a small TV, and a dresser, and not much else — just enough for sleeping, so the pull is always back out to the living room or outside. It's a house built for one person, or a couple, who'd rather spend their time in the big room than the small one.
Exterior Before — the shell, mid-construction
Entry After — new interior
Living Room After — new interior
Bedroom After — new interior
Kitchen After — new interior
About Us
Threshold Design Co. is remodeling on a budget: keeping what you already love about your home, or the home you're about to buy, and elevating it — more modern, more beautiful, and most of all, more comfortable to live in.
A threshold is the plank you step over on the way from one room, or one chapter of a house, into the next. We treat every project the same way: figure out what's worth carrying across that line, and build the rest of the plan around it.
Many homes are built, not designed, then updated piece by piece, making a space disjointed and uncomfortable or some spaces unfinished. Threshold Design Co. exists to close that gap.
Currently accepting a limited number of new residential projects, from single-room refreshes to full remodels. Get in touch below to discuss scope, timeline, and whether we're a fit.
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Tell us about your house.
A room that never feels finished, a kitchen you avoid, or a full renovation — send a few lines about the space, and we'll follow up to schedule a first conversation.