A candlelit living room with a gilt mirror, velvet seating, and framed oil portraits

Novella Vie

Where what has endured begins again.

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Because every story deserves the chance to continue.

What We Do

Design & Consulting

Interior design, remodel design & planning, and owner's representation. We shape the vision, then stand beside you as licensed contractors bring it to life.

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Professional Offices

Interior design, space planning, furnishing, and capex budget planning for therapists, dentists, physicians, and attorneys.

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The Collection

Antiques, custom pieces, and backdrop rentals.

Short-Term Rentals

Design and furnishing for Airbnb and Vrbo homes along the Gulf Coast.

Featured Project

A Dining Room, Rewritten

The dining room after: soft sage green walls, a natural wood farmhouse table, faux-bamboo chairs, and a woven pendant shade

The dining room before: plain white walls, a simple light wood table, and mismatched chairs

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BeforeAfter

Stand-in imagery. A project photograph will take its place.

The inspiration journal

A starting point, not a formula.

Rooms with character. Pieces worth keeping. A little of what draws us in.

Shared bedroom reference with an antique spindle bed, botanical wallpaper, and layered bedding — Antique forms, botanical pattern, and soft layers · shared inspiration reference.

Your space. Your point of view.

We begin with what matters to you. A favorite room, a saved photograph, the furniture with a story.

Bring your inspiration to the conversation. We’ll find the thread that makes it yours.

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How We Work

Discover

We listen first. Your rooms, your habits, the pieces you cannot part with.

Design

Layouts, palettes, and furnishings drawn together into one quiet plan.

Coordinate

We coordinate with licensed contractors on your behalf and keep the plan whole.

Reveal

The last piece is placed. The story continues.

Now in the Collection

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Painted faux-bamboo armchair with a cane seat beside a pine side table and a stoneware ginger jar — Faux-Bamboo Armchair
Painted green, cane seat

Natural rattan étagère styled with ironstone, old cloth-bound books, and a small botanical print — Rattan Étagère
Natural cane, five shelves

Pair of green celadon ginger jars with hand-painted botanicals on a light oak console — Celadon Ginger Jars, a Pair
Hand-painted botanicals

Large framed botanical print of palms and sea grasses above a rattan bench — Palm Botanical Print
Framed in natural oak

[CLIENT TESTIMONIAL — real client, with permission]

— Client Name, Pensacola

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