Hi, I'm Liz.

I walk most mornings, and I can't help reading the houses I pass.

Which ones feel settled. Which ones are evolving. Which ones seem to be waiting for their next chapter.

That's simply how I experience a home. I notice the details, the architecture, the way one room leads into another, and I start imagining what it could become.

For a long time, design stayed a private part of my life while I built a career in project management. Then my husband and I bought a sixty-year-old colonial that needed a lot of love.

Over the years, the house had been updated according to whatever was popular at the time. Shiplap. Five different flooring materials on one main floor. Narrow openings that made each room feel disconnected from the next.

So we started taking things away.

We opened the spaces, brought the floors back to one material, added molding and built-ins, and let the house feel like the colonial it was always meant to be.

Then we layered ourselves into it.

Our kids' projects on open shelves. Plates collected over time. Paintings with real brushstrokes in frames that don't quite match. Old pieces beside new ones. Things we kept simply because we loved them.

If you walked into our home, I think you'd understand something about our family before you ever met us.

That feeling became the beginning of Liz Burr Designs.

Friends started asking for help with their homes. Then people who had been in those homes began reaching out, too. The business grew quietly, through word of mouth, one room and one family at a time.

And that's still what I want to create.

Homes that feel considered, but not overly designed. Beautiful, but comfortable. Collected over time rather than finished all at once.

Most importantly, homes that feel unmistakably like the people who live there.

What I believe about home

Honor the house. A colonial should be allowed to feel like a colonial. A Victorian should get to be gloriously Victorian. When we work with a home's architecture rather than fighting it, everything begins to feel more natural.

Make it personal. I love mixing old and new, meaningful and beautiful, polished and lived-in. Trends eventually pass. The pieces connected to your life are the ones that tend to stay.

Beautiful doesn't have to mean precious. Some of my favorite things in a room have a little age, history or imperfection. A home should be beautiful enough to enjoy and comfortable enough to actually live in.

Materials matter. I'm thoughtful about what we bring into our homes and naturally gravitate toward real, natural materials when they make sense. But there is no purity test here. Your priorities, lifestyle and budget always lead the process.

The practical side matters, too. Before design became my work, I spent eighteen years managing projects in the pharmaceutical industry. That experience is a big part of how I work today. I work ahead, so materials and decisions are ready before the trades need them. On every project so far, no one has stood waiting on me.

Because creating a beautiful design is only part of the job.

If your home is waiting for its next chapter, let's get to work.