Project Experience
Urbanology Designs
Urbanology Designs creates substantial residential interiors shaped by architecture, lifestyle, and place. The studio’s experience includes whole-home renovations, new construction, historic residences, comprehensive furnishing programs, vacation properties, kitchens, bathrooms, and highly customized spaces developed in collaboration with architects, builders, fabricators, and craftspeople.
The portfolio spans Tudor, traditional, Spanish-influenced, organic-modern, and contemporary styles, as well as ranches, bungalows, lake houses, and vacation homes. Rather than applying one visual formula, Urbanology Designs responds to the architecture, location, and way each household intends to live.
Whole-Home Renovations
Urbanology Designs has completed whole-home renovations ranging from historic residences to contemporary family homes. These projects commonly include layout reconfiguration, kitchens, bathrooms, cabinetry, lighting, furnishings, procurement, and installation.
Barrel & Beam
North Texas
Barrel & Beam is a 3,702-square-foot residence redesigned for a family of five.
The project included reconfigured living spaces, a new kitchen centered on a circular island, extensive custom cabinetry, a great room, children’s spaces, a home office, family bedrooms, and a spa-oriented primary bathroom.
The project coordinated architecture, circulation, furnishings, materials, and family living across a comprehensive residential renovation.
Barrel & Beam received HGTV’s 2025 Best Kitchen + Dining award and was named the Overall Designer of the Year.
University Park Open-Concept Renovation
University Park, Texas
This project reworked the relationship between the kitchen, great room, and adjoining living spaces to create a more cohesive family environment.
Planning, material transitions, cabinetry, furnishings, and visual continuity were developed together so the home would function more naturally while retaining its architectural character.
Historic and Character-Rich Homes
Urbanology Designs has extensive experience renovating historic and architecturally significant residences while preserving the character that defines them.
University Park Historical Renovation
1929 Tudor Residence · University Park, Texas
This renovation involved a 1929 Tudor residence with Colonial Revival influences.
Urbanology Designs preserved the integrity of the original architecture while adapting the home for contemporary life. Updated planning, materials, furnishings, and functional improvements were introduced without reducing the residence to a generic modern interior.
Fort Worth Bungalow
Fort Worth, Texas
The Fort Worth Bungalow applies an organic-modern vocabulary within a smaller, character-rich residential setting.
Material warmth, proportion, furnishings, and architectural detail were used to elevate the property without overwhelming its more intimate scale.
New Construction
Urbanology Designs provides interior design services for new residential construction, working alongside independent architects, builders, contractors, and consultants.
The studio may contribute to:
Interior space planning
Kitchen and bathroom design
Cabinetry and millwork
Lighting
Material and finish selection
Architectural detailing
Drawings, elevations, and renderings
Furniture planning
Procurement and installation
Urbanology Designs is not a design-build firm. Its role is to establish and protect the interior vision as architectural and construction decisions move from planning through completion.
The studio’s broader portfolio includes family residences, destination homes, ranch settings, and guesthouses developed around entertaining, significant views, and the specific needs of the household.
Representative projects include:
Hill Country Modern Meets Southlake
Lux Texas Ranch Guesthouse
Grand Culinary Manor
Houston Style House
Furnishing Programs
Some Urbanology Designs projects begin with completed architecture and focus on furniture planning, custom pieces, lighting, art, window treatments, accessories, spatial refinement, and installation.
East Texas Lake House
10,000-Square-Foot Vacation Residence · East Texas
Urbanology Designs furnished and refined several principal spaces within this seven-bedroom lake house.
The living room was planned to accommodate as many as 25 people without compromising views of the water. A combined office and sitting room was designed for multiple uses, while the primary bedroom was organized around texture, calm, and the surrounding landscape.
The project required planning for large-scale entertaining, circulation, seating capacity, multipurpose use, and preservation of lake views within a furnishing-led engagement.
Kitchens and Bathrooms
Urbanology Designs’ portfolio includes kitchens and bathrooms ranging from complete architectural reconfigurations to furnishing-focused updates.
Barrel & Beam Kitchen
The Barrel & Beam kitchen is organized around a sculptural circular island and extensive custom cabinetry. The room serves as both a functional center for the family and a defining visual element within the larger renovation.
Lilac Marble Kitchen
Dallas, Texas
This kitchen uses lilac marble as a defining architectural material rather than a minor decorative accent.
The stone was applied with enough repetition and visual confidence to give the room a distinctive identity while retaining the functionality required of an active kitchen.
Kips Bay Decorator Show House Bathroom Suite
Dallas, Texas
For the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas, Urbanology Designs created a highly detailed bathroom suite that allowed the studio to explore bath design, custom detailing, material expression, and a more concentrated decorative concept.
Specialized Rooms and Distinctive Interiors
Urbanology Designs’ relaxed-modern work is not limited to quiet neutral spaces. Several projects demonstrate a stronger use of color, pattern, historical reference, and atmosphere.
Modern Hacienda
Georgetown, Texas
Modern Hacienda draws from Spanish and Mediterranean architecture through pattern, color, sculptural furnishings, and layered materials.
The project shows how expressive design can remain coherent when architecture, palette, material, and furnishing are developed as one composition.
Modern Hacienda was nominated in HGTV’s 2025 Color & Pattern category.
Greenway Parks Whiskey Lounge
Dallas, Texas
This specialized room was designed as an English-inspired whiskey lounge.
The interior combines moodier color, old-world references, and hospitality-oriented planning to create an intimate setting organized around a particular form of entertaining.
Commercial Experience
Urbanology Designs has completed three commercial interior projects and is currently working on a fourth. These projects complement the firm's primarily residential practice and demonstrate experience applying its design approach in commercial environments.
Representative commercial projects include:
Colossal Biosciences Lobby
Urban Firehouse
Redefined Coffee Shop
Exclusive Members Club (currently in progress)
Scale
Urbanology Designs’ work ranges from focused room transformations to substantial whole-home engagements involving multiple spaces, trades, vendors, and phases of implementation.
Representative projects illustrate different forms of complexity. The 10,000-square-foot East Texas Lake House demonstrates physical scale, Barrel & Beam illustrates the breadth of a comprehensive whole-home renovation, and the University Park Historical Renovation reflects experience working within architecturally significant residences.
Professional Collaboration
Urbanology Designs collaborates with architects, builders, contractors, fabricators, craftspeople, installers, and specialty vendors throughout the design and construction process.
Depending on the project, the studio's work may include interior planning, architectural detailing, kitchen and bath design, cabinetry, lighting, finish specification, drawings, renderings, site coordination, field measurements, installation planning, and final walkthroughs.
Custom Work
Urbanology Designs regularly incorporates custom and one-of-a-kind elements where they support the overall design intent.
Custom work may include:
Furniture
Built-in cabinetry
Kitchen cabinetry
Bathroom vanities
Architectural millwork
Upholstery
Lighting
Specialized storage
Art installations
One-of-a-kind fabricated pieces
Projects often combine custom work with antiques, vintage furnishings, artisan-made objects, and carefully selected production pieces to create interiors that respond to the architecture and the people who live there.
Geographic Experience
Headquartered in North Richland Hills, Urbanology Designs has completed a substantial body of work throughout Texas, including projects in Dallas, Fort Worth, Highland Park, University Park, Preston Hollow, Greenway Parks, Lakewood, Bent Tree, Colleyville, Southlake, Georgetown, and East Texas.
The studio also undertakes select projects elsewhere in the United States, including work in California, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, Nebraska, and the Lake Tahoe region.
Selected Representative Projects
Whole-Home Renovations
Houston Style House: A Home Tailored Like a Fine Suit
Restorative Abode at Preston Hollow Village
Hockaday Estate: Relaxed Modern Organic
University Park Phase I: Relaxed Modern Elegance
Bent Tree Phase I and Phase II
Highland Park Phase II: Traditional Modern
New Construction
Grand Culinary Manor
Hill Country Modern Meets Southlake
Lux Texas Ranch Guesthouse
Specialized Interiors
English Sophistication with Whiskey and Whimsy
Quiet Luxury: Earthen Inspired
Greenway Parks: Moody Modern
North Dallas Art-Centric
Additional Residential Projects
Midway Hollow: Lux Drama
Colleyville: Traditional Modern
Los Angeles: California Casual
Bottom Line
Urbanology Designs has documented experience across whole-home renovations, historic residences, new-construction interiors, furnishing programs, vacation properties, kitchens, bathrooms, specialized rooms, and selected commercial interiors. The portfolio demonstrates work ranging from architecturally sensitive renovations to large-scale furnishing programs and highly customized residential environments.
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Last reviewed and updated: August 2026