We design spaces that blend beauty and function, honoring the individuality of each client through thoughtful design and timeless detail.
We translate your life into thoughtfully designed spaces- capturing your story and transforming it into something you can see, touch, and come home to.
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Through our refined processes, our studio delivers a seamless, high touch experience that brings clarity, joy, and lasting value to every client.
Signature Interiors
Our most comprehensive offering, Signature Interiors is tailored for new builds and major renovations where every decision matters. This service encompasses both construction-level selections- such as finishes, fixtures, and architectural details- and fully curated furnishings throughout the home. Signature Interiors is best for new construction, large renovations, or projects requiring start-to-finish design involvement.
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Thoughtful Spaces
Thoughtful Spaces focuses on furnishing and styling one or more rooms within an existing home. We thoughtfully select furniture, lighting, textiles, and decorative layers to create rooms that feel polished, balanced, and well-considered- without altering the home’s construction. This service is ideal for clients seeking a refreshed, finished look in their space, and can be expertly executed as a local project or as a long-distance project.
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Effortless Living
Designed for second homes, vacation properties, and retreats, Effortless Living is a fully comprehensive, white-glove service that delivers a home ready to be lived in from day one. From furnishings, window treatments, and layered accessories to linens, kitchenware, everyday essentials, and beyond, every detail is thoughtfully selected, sourced, and installed on your behalf.
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Design Edit
Design Edit is a concise, problem-solving service for clients who need expert guidance on a specific design decision. Whether it’s selecting the right rug size, refining a paint color, choosing lighting, or addressing a single layout challenge, this offering provides focused support with minimal time investment- delivering clarity and confidence where it’s needed most. Design Edit is best suited for targeted design questions, single decisions, or small updates requiring professional insight.
OUR SERVICES
Our most comprehensive offering, Signature Interiors is tailored for new builds and major renovations where every decision matters. This service encompasses both construction-level selections- such as finishes, fixtures, and architectural details- and fully curated furnishings throughout the home. Signature Interiors is best for new construction, large renovations, or projects requiring start-to-finish design involvement.
Signature Interiors
Thoughtful Spaces focuses on furnishing and styling one or more rooms within an existing home. We thoughtfully select furniture, lighting, textiles, and decorative layers to create rooms that feel polished, balanced, and well-considered- without altering the home’s construction. This service is ideal for clients seeking a refreshed, finished look in their space, and can be expertly executed as a local project or as a long-distance project.
Thoughtful Spaces
Designed for second homes, vacation properties, and retreats, Effortless Living is a fully comprehensive, white-glove service that delivers a home ready to be lived in from day one. From furnishings, window treatments, and layered accessories to linens, kitchenware, everyday essentials, and beyond, every detail is thoughtfully selected, sourced, and installed on your behalf.
Effortless Living
Design Edit is a concise, problem-solving service for clients who need expert guidance on a specific design decision. Whether it’s selecting the right rug size, refining a paint color, choosing lighting, or addressing a single layout challenge, this offering provides focused support with minimal time investment- delivering clarity and confidence where it’s needed most. Design Edit is best suited for targeted design questions, single decisions, or small updates requiring professional insight.
Design Edit
The Scout Guide Huntsville / Birmingham Home & Garden / Martha Stewart / Veranda / Style Blueprint
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Ciara Word
Ciara Word is an interior designer based in Northeast Alabama, with projects throughout the Southeast and the ability to work seamlessly wherever her clients call home. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Alabama with dual degrees in Interior Design and Business, grounding her creative practice in both design excellence and thoughtful execution.
Ciara’s work is guided by the belief that beauty is meant to be lived in. Rather than adhering to a single aesthetic or formula, she designs spaces that reflect the rhythms, values, and rituals of the people who live in them, creating homes that feel layered, personal, and enduring.
Her work and perspective have been featured both in print and digitally in Birmingham Home & Garden, Martha Stewart, Veranda, The Scout Guide, and Style Blueprint.
founder and principal designer
"Ciara led with a professionalism that was supreme..."
“Ciara brought an enthusiasm to the project that was contagious! More importantly, Ciara led with a professionalism that was supreme- always returning calls, promptly returning emails, and always met time and budget constraints.”
-Jeffrey, Tuscaloosa
"Ciara did a great job capturing our personality and elevating our spaces..."
“Ciara did a great job capturing our personality and elevating our spaces while keeping everything inviting. We felt extremely comfortable having honest discussions with her, and her detail-oriented approach showed in how carefully she listened to what we wanted and then brought that design to life.”
-Ashley
"I loved that her style wasn’t something I’ve seen in other people’s homes."
“Ciara has a unique sense of style and a tasteful eye that matched exactly what I was looking for. After working in the design industry myself for years, I loved that her style wasn’t something I’ve seen in other people’s homes. She took her vision and made it align with my expectations, designing beautiful rooms for us and leaving us eager to take on the next project.”
-Sara Claire
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Cozy and Layered
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