About Us
behind the brand
“By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.”
Hebrew Proverb
“Keith makes it a priority to help you laugh your way through the challenges every project inevitably presents.”
Stewardship, integrity and design prowess
wrapped up in joie de vivre is Keith’s hallmark modus operandi, principally expressed through:
- Seeking, following, and abiding by truth and wisdom.
- Edifying the best qualities in people.
- Restoring the total human environment including the mind, body, soul, and spirit of individuals, families and communities in their workplaces and residences.
Your unique personality, natural and architectural surroundings, and particular passion for art and beauty
are Keith’s informants for designing your Interiors
Whether it’s service, collaboration, investigation, friendship or any combination of these you’re seeking for guidance along this journey, Keith will discover what communication style works best for you to get the relief you need to achieve success throughout the process.
Meet Our Team“Collaborating with me is a bit like hanging out with the fun brother in your family…but not the kind that runs off to Vegas with your credit card! Designer pretention and snobbery set aside, you can count on intelligent, meaningful conversations – as brief or involved as suits you – filled with good humor resulting in imaginative solutions that work.”
Meet Our Team
Awards & Recognition
Over the years, our interior design firm has been awarded numerous awards and recognitions on a regional as well as national level. Here is only a small sample of such distinctions.
October 2019
Winner of International Property Award for Best Bathroom Design.
August 2018
Juror to ASID San Antonio Pinnacle of Design Awards Competition
June 2018
March 2018
April, 2013
Completion of design services for regionally acclaimed green building project: “Going Green At The Beach“
published works
2014
published in:
Seattle Magazine
Home & Garden
featuring design work on a home
in Stanwood, Washington.
2010
published in:
Green
Interior Design
a book by Lori Dennis
2010
published in:
Residential Design
for Aging In Place
a book by Michael Thomas & Drue Lawlor
2008
published in:
Smart Home
Owner Magazine
Going Green at the Beach project
2007
By Design:
A Seattle Design
Center Publication
Published interview with Beth and Craig Cross about the importance of Green Design.
2005
published in:
Seattle Homes &
Lifestyles Magazine
Green Compact
2005
published in:
Window
Design Magazine
Imperial Chamber Master Bedroom
1997
published in:
Daily Oklahoman
Newspaper
The Young Lady’s Fantasy Suite
frequently asked questions
What’s the Typical Process for Working Together?
Next we revisit all you’ve reported to us and compile a comprehensive working agreement to help guide you through the 3 P’s: Planning, Procurement, and Project Execution, including how we’ll communicate with you and what you can anticipate investing in this remarkable journey.
Once we’re all on the same page, we dive in! Researching you, your habits and hobbies, needs and desires, we set your life to the measure (ask us about our “Life in Boxes” technique!), take notes and create a concept you’ll love to call home. You respond, we adjust it, then help you cross the threshold to acquiring all that’s necessary to make your space radiate with your own brand of goodness. Engaging with financial planners, architects, contractors, vendors, and makers of every loving thing on earth, we save you time and energy seeing to it everything you choose is set in place until it’s picture perfect and ready for living!
How are Miller Interior Design Services Compensated?
For your Planning Phase, we’ll usually assess a fixed fee or appropriate monthly stipend to achieve the concept for a winning presentation that blows your socks off. When we’ve resolved the plan, we manage the Procurement and Project Execution Phases by the hour on a sliding scale based on the role required to achieve the tasks at hand. We’ll find just the right furnishings, finishes and equipment or make them from scratch. Customization is Keith’s specialty. If we don’t find what we need, he’ll design it, assemble his makers, and get it installed effectively.
What Types of Clients Has Miller Interior Design Served?
Keith is an impresario. He’s more interested in what’s interesting to others than his own personal affections. That approach awards his team a widely diverse set of clientele who each in their own unique way greatly benefit from his solutions and care.
The clients he serves who receive the greatest reward from engaging with Keith and his team have a passion for art and the means and will to invest in living life to the fullest. They’re looking to set up their forever home or that jewel box they enjoy visiting by means of commissioning Miller Interior Design much the way they’d arrange an installation artist to prepare an expressive space to inspire awe. But it’s an installation masterpiece that actually works for everyday living, tailored to your taste!
What Advice is Helpful to Prospective Clients Looking to Hire an Interior Designer?
Trust your design team to accomplish your interior design goals. Every facet of the plan effects every other facet when harnessing the vast array of design’s elements and principles. Be prepared to invest at least 3 times what you or your advisors initially conceive*, and prepare to engage from concept to completion through all three phases with your creative advisors so that what is prepared in concept is achieved successfully in reality.
*nobody likes hearing that part, but be prepared to laugh your way through the challenges of the change you’re craving by watching a ca. 1948 Cary Grant classic: “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House”. Pay close attention to the prices you’ll see quoted (over 70 years ago) for design and construction services in this film. They look similar to what Keith has often experienced people anticipate investing for the same work needing to be accomplished today. However, we’re living in the latter part of a century past the filming of this movie, and prices have changed drastically over the decades. Swallow hard and embrace openly that if you take the investment amounts they quote throughout the film and multiply it times 10 (yep, 10), you’re closer to what you need to plan for on your journey to your dreams experienced in real time in the place where your legacy lives on.
What is the Definition of Interior Design According to CIDQ?
Interior design encompasses the analysis, planning, design, documentation, and management of interior non-structural/non-seismic construction and alteration projects in compliance with applicable building design and construction, fire, life-safety, and energy codes, standards, regulations, and guidelines for the purpose of obtaining a building permit, as allowed by law. Read the full definition of interior design.
What Interior Design Education/Training Has Been Achieved?
Keith received his Bachelor of Arts in Housing and Interior Design from a 4-yr CIDA-Accredited interior design program at the University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY is a veritable museum of historic American architecture from the log cabin to today. UK boasts PhD level professors and stellar guest lecturers from among the world’s leading design innovators. The creative environment Keith experienced there invigorated his drive to design the most imaginative, usable and intimately personal spaces crafted as artfully as his clients let him assemble for them.
How Did Keith Get Started in Interior Design?
Keith’s older sister insisted he pursue this career. Having been made aware of his propensity to wander into friends’ closets to assess storage techniques or stare for hours at beauty of any kind, cheer on the world for being alive or just make tasteful recommendations to anyone who might listen, Keith discovered his passion for helping people live their fullest life could be realized through the unique vessel of interior design. People enter the idea of this level of change either by the horrors of life’s hardship, or in sheer delight from its rewards, and probably both. Keith is perfectly suited to step right into those personal surroundings with his disarming whit and joy for life’s possibilities to pour out his gifts for the betterment of anyone who seeks his expertise.
Describe a Recent Project the Design Team Enjoyed:
“I want this space to allow for tea with friends,” she started with a glint in her eye. “It should hold my personal library, and allow means for an overnight guest,” she continued. “Finally, We need to keep access to the bathroom through here and the attic up there, and most importantly, the floor should be cleanable because I bring my champion pups into the world in this room”.
“But it’s only 49 square feet,” Keith stated flatly. Unfettered, she proceeded, “I visit Indonesia and Prague regularly, and look forward to seeing how we’ll incorporate those beautiful cultures into my room here. And mind the window with the view. We’ll want to enjoy that seated here,” she finished.
What an exhilarating challenge to conceive of such peculiarly stunning beauty to this magnitude with the most impossible requirements in the smallest space Keith has ever designed … and to actually PULL IT OFF!! Lightweight Bohemian antiques slide gracefully out of the room, while wainscot paneling opens to reveal a hideaway twin day-bed and nightstand. A rolling ladder allows vertical access to the book collection over a beautifully painted pine floor sealed tight to anticipate new puppies each year. Bath and attic, tea and views are accessible at the turn of the wrist as a wandering eye discovers the encircling of uncharted lands in art and literature from around the world.
What Questions Should Interior Design Clients Think Through Before Talking to Interior Design Professionals About Their Needs?
- Who is making the decisions? Just you? Or is a creative contractor, opinionated relative or trusted friend an influencer? Anyone who inspires decision needs to participate in the process of change.
- Why are you doing this now?
- Is it important for status?
- If you had to choose, which goes first: the budget or the result?
- How will you communicate concerns and aid in resolving conflicts that arise throughout this journey?
- Is this your forever home or another stop along the way?
- Are you willing and able to invest your time, energy and funding to this endeavor?
