Havn & Hölm Studio
Design and transformation, by the people who already know your home.
Studio handles renovation management, interior design, and the moments when a property needs to become something more.
Our approach
Three principles. One through-line.
Everything we design holds to the same tests. Not a style — a set of constraints that keep the work honest.
Rootedness
Every decision is grounded in how the space is actually lived in. The neighbourhood, the era, the family — all of it shapes what belongs and what does not.
Warmth
Not a style — a quality. Present in materials, light, and proportion. Spaces that feel inhabited, not staged. Built for the hundredth visit, not the first impression.
Timelessness
Built to age well, not to trend well. Nothing that will look dated in five years. Nothing designed to impress at the cost of endurance.
Selected work
Five projects. Greater Houston.
A selection of completed work from our Houston practice. Each project presented on its own terms — the space as received, the decisions made, and what was built.
Memorial, Houston
Memorial Modern
A complete interior reconfiguration of a 1970s brick home. Structural walls removed, a new open-plan living and kitchen introduced, existing millwork preserved and integrated into the new language.
Interior transformation
The Heights, Houston
Heights Restoration
The interior of a 1920s bungalow, stripped back and rebuilt with period-appropriate materials and craft-forward detailing. Original pine floors refinished. Custom built-ins to match the era.
Period renovation
River Oaks, Houston
River Oaks Sanctuary
A primary suite transformation: new ceiling details, custom dressing room, integrated lighting design, and a bathroom that feels considered rather than assembled.
Suite transformation
West University Place, Houston
West University Kitchen
A full kitchen renovation inside a 1950s ranch. Layout reconfigured, custom cabinetry designed and built, integrated appliances, stone surfaces with movement.
Kitchen renovation
Kingwood, Houston
Kingwood Coastal
A seasonal property given a complete interior overhaul: new colour palette, material selections throughout, furniture sourcing and placement, and full light fixture specification. The brief was one word: lighter.
Full interior overhaul
Studio process
Five steps. One intention.
The process is built around one principle: that a transformation should serve how people actually live, not how a space photographs. Each step is accountable to that.
Discovery
We begin with the property, not the brief. Understanding what is there — structurally, materially, and in terms of how the family uses the space — before deciding what changes.
Concept Development
A direction takes shape. Materials, spatial moves, the relationship between what is being kept and what is being changed. Presented as a clear proposition, not a mood board.
Design Development
Drawings, specifications, selections. The concept becomes a buildable plan. Every vendor brief and material specification is documented before anything is ordered.
Implementation
Trades coordinated, deliveries managed, each phase checked against the agreed plan. The property manager is on site. Nothing advances without sign-off.
Completion
A final walkthrough against the original brief. The project is not complete because the tradespeople have left. It is complete when it matches what was intended at the outset.
For H&H stewardship clients
We already know the property.
Studio work moves faster, costs less, and lands better when we manage the property first. We know the systems, the vendors, and the house.
That context is not something you can brief a new firm into.
Studio is available to all stewardship tiers. If you are not yet a member, stewardship and Studio can begin together — the property history we build in the first year becomes the foundation for any future transformation.