Illume Consulting & Design
Interior design · Metro Detroit & virtual

Spaces that know what they are for

Illume Consulting & Design creates intentional, beautiful spaces that support presence, harmony, and purposeful living.

The Studio

Spaces that know what they are for

Illume Consulting & Design creates intentional, beautiful spaces that support presence, harmony, and purposeful living.

I work the way a room is actually used. Before anything is specified, we agree on what the space is for — often in three words — and every decision after that has to answer to them. The result is calm rather than busy, and personal rather than styled.

A particular focus of the studio is the musallah: prayer space designed as part of a home rather than added to the end of it. That work is done in Metro Detroit in person, and anywhere else virtually.

Illume Consulting & Design interior
What we do

Services

01

Residential interior design

Whole-room and whole-home design, from the brief through sourcing and install.

02

Musallah & sacred space

Prayer spaces designed into a home — orientation, a clear floor, storage within reach, and light you can lower.

03

Virtual design

Drawings, sourcing and specification delivered wherever you are.

04

Design consultation

A focused session on a room that is not working, with a plan you can act on yourself.

05

Communal spaces

Mosques, community rooms and shared spaces that have to hold many people well.

06

Editorial consulting

Styling and direction for shoots, features and publication.

Selected Work

Recent projects.

Living room, Troy MI — calligraphy panels above green velvet, on panelling that was already there
Living room, Troy MI — calligraphy panels above green velvet, on panelling that was already there
The musallah — the rug is the room: a clear floor, a direction, and everything else kept to the walls
The musallah — the rug is the room: a clear floor, a direction, and everything else kept to the walls
The prayer corner — four feet wide: a direction, a clear floor, and the Qur'an on a stand
The prayer corner — four feet wide: a direction, a clear floor, and the Qur'an on a stand
Two chairs facing the room instead of the television — seating that hosts
Two chairs facing the room instead of the television — seating that hosts
A console of three Moorish horseshoe arches, measured to the wall it sits against
A console of three Moorish horseshoe arches, measured to the wall it sits against
Pierced ceramic in an arched niche — cutwork that reads as light before it reads as language
Pierced ceramic in an arched niche — cutwork that reads as light before it reads as language
Work with us

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