Paint and the light you have
18
sep
Why the same color looks warm in one room and gray in the next, and how to test it.
INTERIORSFOR HOW YOU LIVEAT HOME
Learn moreour
thinking
01 - About us
Corva designs the rooms people live in every day: living rooms, bedrooms, home offices and the rest. We start with how a room is used, and let the look follow.
A room that works is rarely about one beautiful piece. It is the walk from the door to the window, a lamp where you read, a place for the shoes and a color that holds up on a gray afternoon. We measure first, listen to how the household uses the space, and only then choose what goes into it. What you already own and love is drawn into the plan from the start, so the finished room still looks like your home.
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Lighting
Plans
Where the light comes from at each hour, and what to add so the room works after dark.
Our
Measures
02 - rules we design by
A few measurements decide whether a room feels easy or awkward. These are the ones we check on every plan, before a single piece is chosen.
Clear path through a room
36 in
Sofa to coffee table, at most
18 in
Center of a picture, from the floor
57 in
Our
Projects
03 - Projects
Directions we design toward, one room at a time. Each opens the page for that room, with what we look at first and the ideas we often start from.
Low seating around
a garden view
Design direction
A desk in the light
and a chair to read in
Design direction
A table for eight
under one light
Design direction
A quieter bedroom
in soft beige
Design direction
Why
Corva
04 - why choose usDesign help is only useful if it fits the house you have and the way you live in it. This is how that plays out day to day.
Every plan starts from the room as it is: its dimensions, its doors and windows, and the light at different hours. Furniture is chosen to fit the drawing, not the other way round.
Pieces you love are drawn in first. We design around them, so the room still feels like yours when it is finished.
The person you speak to first is the person who draws your room, answers your questions and walks through it with you at the end.
You see what the work involves and what it costs, in writing, before anything begins. Nothing is added later that you did not agree.
1
Designer
per home
Materials we work with, room by room
- Oak
- Linen
- Travertine
- Rattan
- Brass
- Wool
- Lime plaster
- Walnut
- Terracotta
- Velvet
- Cane
- Jute
Recent
Journal articles
05 - Recent articlesShort, practical notes on the decisions that come up in almost every room: color, light and finding space.
Lighting a room in layers
25
sep
The three kinds of light a room needs after dark, and where each one goes.
A reading corner in a small space
02
oct
A chair, a lamp and a place for the cup: how to find room for one in almost any house.