Although the firm of Olson Lewis Dioli & Doktor Architects (OLD&D) has had an interiors team for several years, it has primarily served the company’s biotech, commercial, educational, and hospitality clients. Now the firm is embracing this full-service approach for its residential clients as well. It is naming Amanda Greaves as its Director of Residential Interiors and creating an in-house residential interiors team at OLD&D.

Honestly, a homeowner’s day-to-day quality of life may be more intimately affected by the interior of the house than by the walls outside. With Greaves’ presence on staff, the firm can now offer a range of enhanced services, including interior design, space planning, color consultation, decorating, procurement and installations of furniture and furnishings, and interior project management and coordination.

“The client is the most important part of the design team,” says Greaves. “All good design stems from observation, listening and understanding.” In the end, the house should evolve into what she calls “an expression of the client's lifestyle and needs.” Working closely with a homeowner to interpret their personal tastes and patterns of living, their rhythms and preferences, OLD&D’s residential design team helps the client create a meaningful palette that will color and shape the spaces in which they live.

Greaves has been consulting with OLD&D’s residential team since November 2008, and together the staff has built communication, rapport, and a synergy of aesthetics and styles. Now it’s a formal collaboration of architecture and interiors as she joins the staff and leads the residential interiors initiative.

Visit OLD&D's Residential Interiors page for an overview of the new division and services.