Casework

Scenes from the past few weeks!

1-4. Historic Ladd's Home is coming together, and we are installing next month!
5. Concepts and materials for a bar in North Portland with
6. Zoomed with and on business and creating an authentic brand. Key takeaways -- I have a new personal goal of becoming a CGO (Chief Gardening Officer), the importance of authenticity, and encouraging my own curiosity.
7. Strategy Summit - I volunteer on the board with 17 other small business owners. President hosted an overnight retreat where we dreamed, schemed, and planned the next 12 months for our chapter of small business owners. I'm very thankful for this community!
8. Bend Bath is in the final stretch!

It’s been ten years since I officially started Casework Interior Design! 🔟!!! In those first few years, my energy was devoted to the craft, constantly refining and perfecting how we work to create beautiful spaces for our clients. Over time, something unexpected happened. As our clients welcomed us into their homes, we were also welcomed into their lives. Through these relationships, our design process transformed. Our commitment to excellence and craft became more vivid when connected to their story–the picture of their dog that we include on a hand-painted tile, the wallpaper we choose to complement the hutch that’s been in the family for generations–these are the details that highlight the humanity in our work.

Through collaboration, our work is deeper and becomes richer.

It’s a mindset I’ve also adopted with our team. Every voice at Casework is not just welcomed, it’s essential to our process. We all have a distinct perspective in design, and through dialogue, collaboration, and yes, even conflict, we sharpen each other and transform the spaces that our clients inhabit. I’ve been in this industry for twenty something years, steering the Casework ship for the past ten, and as we celebrate a decade-long milestone, I’m convinced of one thing. We all benefit when everyone has a seat at the table!

In April, the Casework team took some well-earned time off in Palm Springs. We soaked up the sun, made up our own mid century modern home tour and celebrated the milestone! Cheers to ten incredible years!

To Ten More,
Casey

Scenes from the week 05.12.25

1. Historic Hofer house - kitchen photoshoot outtakes
2. Historic Hofer house - photoshoot outtakes with
3. Historic Hofer house - breakfast nook - dishware paired with all the vintage
4. Bend Bath - the shower tile install has been a true labor of love by all involved and is finally perfect and ready for grout! 😅
5. Mt. Tabor home - framing for a new primary dressing room and laundry
6. Mt Tabor home - floor lacing detail, blending old with new.
7. Arlington Hts home - island leg detail with our first view of the new stain
8. Arlington Hts home - entry stair prepped for paint
9. Historic Vigors home in Ladd's Addition - testing exterior colors

“Color is the magic of the aesthetic realm. It is the immediate eye appeal. It plays on the emotions. Its effect on human beings cannot yet be measured.”
-- Dorothy Liebes, 1944

Credits
1. Textile, c. 1940; Mexican plaid woven textile. MoMA collection
3. Exhibition Room at Lord & Taylor, New York City, c 1941; Styled by William Pahlmann (American, 1900–1987); Drapes designed by Dorothy Liebes for Goodall Fabrics; Blinds designed by Dorothy Liebes; From Decorative Art 1942—The Studio Year Book, edited by C. G. Holme. Hulton Archive, Getty Images
4. Textile, c. 1935-37; twill-woven cotton, silk, viscose rayon, wool
Textile (USA), Designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes. Cotton, silk, viscose rayon, wool. Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1972-75-2. Photo by Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution.
5. Dorothy Liebes in her Sutter Street studio, San Francisco, California, c 1947. Photo by Charles Steinheimer
6. Charles Steinheimer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock
7. Book - “A Dark, A Light, A Bright. The Designs of Dorothy Liebes” by Susan Brown and Alexa Griffith Winton
8. Sample card, 1945; Designed by Dorothy Liebes); Plain-woven cotton, viscose rayon, silk, wool, cellulose acetate butyrate-laminated aluminum yarn, reed; Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Liebes Morin; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1972-75-114; Photo: Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution.