The Studio
Luxury is achieved through discipline, not excess
Sunlit Studio is an independent design licensing studio. We resolve the design of a home — every material, every light, every proportion — before anyone breaks ground, and we hand that resolved intent to the people who build it.
What Sunlit Studio is
Sunlit Studio is not a design firm. It is a design operating system — a governance framework that codifies architectural standards, material hierarchy, render execution, and content strategy into a repeatable system that produces consistent luxury outcomes regardless of project scale, geography, or budget tier.
The Sunlit Studio system governs every material decision through a disciplined, layered framework. It locks cabinet hierarchies, stone selections, ceiling standards, and kitchen elevations into a governing standard that can be handed to any builder, anywhere, and executed correctly. It separates render quality from design compliance. It makes the design intelligence that has historically lived only in the mind of an exceptional designer available as a scalable, fully resolved design intent system.
Most house plans leave hundreds of decisions unmade — and your builder makes them for you, on the fly, during construction. We decide everything before you break ground.
Luxury is achieved through discipline, not excess.
What the studio does
Six ways of working, one discipline. Scope and fee for the service engagements are defined in a scope of work.
Service
Private Interior Design
Full private interior design for a single client and a single home. Scope and fee are defined in a scope of work.
Private interior design →License
License
Full-home design intent, licensed. A distinct offer for builders and for homeowners building new construction.
See the license →Service
Build Concierge
A guided planning engagement for homeowners, before a builder, architect, or designer is hired. Scope and fee are defined in a scope of work.
Build Concierge →Service
Design Lock™
Decisions locked before framing starts, so the home that gets built is the home that was approved. Scope and fee are defined in a scope of work.
Design Lock™ →Documentation
PM Integration
The Design Intent package delivered as documentation a builder uploads into the project management system they already run.
PM Integration →Catalogue
The Collection
The catalogue of resolved homes available for License. Not a separate product — the shelf the License is drawn from.
The Collection →Where to start
Six sections. Start wherever you actually are.
Founder & Creative Director
Elan Kling
Sunlit Studio is not the work of a drafting table. It is the work of one person who has stood on every side of the luxury industry — and engineered a system out of what she learned there.
Read the full storySunlit Studio is an independent design licensing studio. Sunlit Studio is not an architect. A Sunlit license grants design intent for construction of the licensed home and is not a transfer of architectural or engineering services; design intent must be provided to an architect for construction documents where applicable. Sunlit Studio licenses design intent to independent builders; it does not employ, supervise, or guarantee the work of any builder.