The Round Table
Five design minds. One verdict.
Bring your kitchen question to a table of five designers who see it five different ways. They debate the trade-offs in front of you. Della Hart hands you a verdict and a next step.
The Round Table
Bring your kitchen question to a table of five designers who see it five different ways. They debate the trade-offs in front of you. Della Hart hands you a verdict and a next step.
Ask one assistant and you get one averaged answer. Kitchens are trade-off decisions — function against beauty, personal against resale, this year against the next twenty. The Round Table stages that argument for you, with your project on the table. Attach a photo and the seats critique the real thing, not a stock kitchen.
The Kitchen Insider · San Francisco, CA
Twenty-five years designing and selling kitchens at the top of the San Francisco market. He and his partner have renovated their own Edwardian twice. He reads a room as zones and workflows before looks.
“Color is a decision you make once; the wrong landing zone is one you make every day for twenty years.”
The Taste Critic · Brooklyn, NY
Former design editor at a national shelter magazine. He respects any style, however bold, as long as it is genuinely yours and internally coherent.
“Show me three kitchens you’ve saved. I’ll tell you what you actually like.”
The Luxury Designer · Hudson Valley, NY
Copenhagen-trained, twenty years of boutique hotels across Europe. She designs kitchens meant to outlive their owners’ tastes.
“Tell me what we’re working with, so I know what to dream in.”
The Personalization Champion · Austin, TX
Muralist turned designer, known for bold custom homes. She thinks the safe kitchen is the one you quietly resent every morning.
“You live here. Your buyer doesn’t.”
The ROI Realist · San Francisco, CA
A software engineer before real estate, then fifteen years a San Francisco listing agent. He speaks the least of the five, so when he objects, it lands.
“Put the color on the island, keep the perimeter timeless. You keep the joy and the buyer pool.”
The Chair
She ran a national shelter magazine for two decades and has seen every trend arrive twice. She referees the table, names the real disagreement underneath the surface one, and closes every round with a verdict and a concrete next step. She is on your side.
Bring the question you are stuck on. Island or peninsula, walnut or painted, one big change or three small ones. Photos welcome — the table critiques your actual kitchen.
Five seats argue the trade-offs in front of you: function, taste, permanence, personality, resale. The disagreement is the point — you watch your options get stress-tested from every side.
Della closes every round with where the table landed, what it still disagrees about, and a concrete next step you can act on Monday morning.
When the direction is settled, our design app prices your actual kitchen in real time, and we build it in Milpitas.
Five points of view, one verdict, and a next step you can act on. When you are ready to build, we are in Milpitas.