Plainly answered.

Begin with a free discovery conversation at curiostudiointeriors.com/inquire. Savannah will follow up within one business day.

That's the most common starting place. Reach out anyway — the first conversation is free, and the only goal is figuring out what would actually be useful.

Savannah replies within one business day — a real response, not a form confirmation. From there, the first conversation is free, and there's no pitch: we're trying to understand what you're working with, what isn't working, and what you're hoping for. If we're the right fit, you'll get a written proposal describing the scope, the fee, and the timeline. If we're not, we'll say so.

If the project touches walls, plumbing, lighting plans, or how rooms connect, you need a designer. A decorator works with what a room already is — furnishings, palette, arrangement. A designer works with what it could be, alongside architects and contractors. Curio does both kinds of work: full renovations at one end, room-level direction through Guidebook and Consulting at the other. Start with the honest version of your project, and we'll tell you which it is.

Early — ideally before drawings are final. Early is where design has the most leverage: window placement, lighting plans, the casing detail that costs nothing to change on paper and a fortune to change in the field. We coordinate with architects and contractors from the first sketch and stay through the punch list. If construction has already started, call anyway. But if you're still deciding, the answer is now.

Full Service includes construction coordination, finishes, furnishings, procurement, and installation — a fully managed experience. Procurement is a full-home furnishing transformation without renovation work.

Depth of documentation. A Spec Book is the full design plan — every finish, fixture, and spec, drawn clearly enough that your contractor can build it without us in the room. A Guidebook is direction rather than documentation: paint, materials, furniture references, how the space wants to be arranged, for you to source yourself. Both are priced per room. Spec Book is for building with a contractor; Guidebook is for doing it yourself with a plan worth following.

They solve different problems. A design-build firm carries construction and design under one roof, which is efficient — and it tends to design what it already knows how to build. An independent designer answers to the home and to you, not to the build schedule. We work alongside architects and contractors constantly; the strongest projects keep design intent and construction in honest conversation. If you already trust a design-build firm's work, hire them. If you want an advocate, hire a designer.

Yes. New-construction interiors are some of our deepest work, because we engage at design development — window placement, lighting plans, materials — and stay through the punch list. New builds usually run twelve to twenty-four months and reward early coordination between architect, builder, and designer. If you're breaking ground soon, this is the moment to call, while the decisions are still on paper.

Yes. Single-room engagements — design direction, a paint palette and furniture plan, a kitchen finish package — are real work, and a good way to begin a relationship with a studio. Many of our full-home clients started with one room. Spec Book, Guidebook, and Consulting are all built to work at room scale. Begin where you are.

Primarily residential — that's the studio's center of gravity, and we're honest about it. We have taken on select commercial and boutique hospitality work where the project asks for the same care a home does; our portfolio includes a small hospitality property. If you're weighing us for a commercial space, start the conversation. The answer depends on the fit, not the category.

Full Service projects usually unfold over 6–12 months from first conversation to install. Procurement runs 4–8 months. Spec Book and Guidebook deliverables ship in 6–10 weeks. Consulting is hourly, as needed.

We have a vetted network of regional architects, contractors, and craftspeople we collaborate with often. If you have your own team, we work alongside them — the goal is for the project to feel coordinated, not territorial.

Savannah. Curio is a principal-led studio, which means the person who takes your first call is the person who designs your home — not a junior team working under a distant name. Savannah Dodge is the founder and principal designer, with a BFA in Interior Design from the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University and over a decade of residential work across the Hudson Valley and New England.

As involved as you want to be. Our services run along a spectrum: Full Service means we run everything; Procurement, we furnish it; Spec Book, we draw the plan; Guidebook, we point the way; Consulting, we advise. Some clients want a weekly conversation, others want to hand us the keys and come back for the reveal. Either is fine. The cadence gets set early, in writing, and it holds.

Sustainable interior design asks three questions of every material: where it came from, how long it will last, and what it costs the earth. At Curio we call those pillars Origin, Lifecycle, and Impact. Origin traces harvesting, processing, and distance traveled. Lifecycle chooses for durability and repairability — heirloom is the upper bound, landfill is the line we don't cross. Impact weighs embodied carbon, not just energy bills. Specification is a vote, and we treat it that way.

Yes, where the home calls for it. Reuse sits inside how we think about lifecycle — a well-made older piece has already proven its durability, and its embodied carbon is already spent. We bring vintage and antique pieces into projects alongside new work, and we'd rather restore something worth keeping than replace it with a lookalike. Provenance is part of the design conversation, not an afterthought.

Curio Studio Interiors scopes Procurement, Spec Book, and Full Service engagements to the home: the fee is set in a written proposal once we understand the home and the work it asks for. Guidebook services are priced per room. Consulting is billed hourly.

Consulting is $150 per hour. Bring your floor plans, samples, and questions — and your uncertainty. We work through it together.

Curio Studio serves clients throughout the Hudson Valley, the Berkshires, Saratoga Springs, the Capital Region, and across New England.

Often. Many of our Hudson Valley projects are weekend houses or short-term rentals where presence matters more than scale. We treat them with the same care as primary residences.

Eight regions, from our studio in Kerhonkson, NY: the Hudson Valley (our home territory), the Catskills, the Berkshires, Saratoga Springs, the Capital Region, Lake Placid and the Adirondacks, Western Massachusetts, and — for the right project — New England more broadly, including Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Maine. Each region has its own page on this site, because each one asks different questions of a home.

Our work is site-specific, so we travel rather than design from a screen. A home has to be walked — the light at seven in the morning, the way the front hall takes a January boot. We work on site across the Hudson Valley, the Berkshires, and our broader regions, and for farther projects the travel is planned and itemized in the written proposal. We don't offer a virtual-only design service.