KATY KRIDER INTERIOR DESIGN
Completed in 2021, the Maplerock Residence is a contemporary interpretation of Northwest Modernism. Perched in Portland's Northwest Hills, the 4,700-square-foot home overlooks expansive views of the Coast Range and was designed as a study in proportion, contrast, and materiality.
Katy Krider Interior Design led the interior architecture and design, creating a restrained palette that serves as a backdrop for the homeowners' collection of art, objects, and furnishings gathered through years of travel and experience. At the heart of the home, a light-filled great room connects the living, dining, and kitchen spaces, opening to the landscape through a 32-foot telescoping glass wall.
Custom American Black Walnut casework, a floating walnut stair, and carefully detailed interiors establish a sense of warmth and continuity throughout. A dedicated music room, designed to house the owners' extensive collection of records and instruments, reflects the personal nature of the home.
Thoughtfully crafted and intentionally understated, the residence balances modern architecture with a rich collection of art, music, and meaningful objects, creating a home that feels both timeless and deeply personal.
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Scott Edwards Architecture, Architect
Hamish Murray Construction, General Contractor
Shapiro Didway, Landscape Architect
Jeremy Bitterman, Photography
Nestled among the trees outside Portland, Oregon, this renovation honors the home's original Northwest Regional character while thoughtfully reimagining it for modern living. The design vision was rooted in preserving the home's rich material palette—exposed Douglas fir structure, white oak flooring, split-faced basalt, and beautifully patinated unlacquered brass—while introducing greater light, contrast, and functionality to the primary living spaces.
Rather than replacing the home's defining architectural features, the design sought to celebrate them. A lighter, more refined palette was layered into the existing framework, creating a dialogue between old and new, rustic and refined. Inspired by the principles of wabi-sabi, the interiors embrace the beauty of natural materials, subtle imperfections, and the passage of time.
A key component of the renovation was strengthening the home's connection to its surrounding landscape. The exterior wall of the Great Room was extended to accommodate a sixteen-foot-wide sliding glass door, bringing abundant natural light into the lower level and creating a seamless relationship between the interior and the forest beyond.
Originally designed by Portland architect Ernie Munch and constructed by JDL Development in the 1990s, the home remains a remarkable example of Northwest craftsmanship. Three decades later, JDL Development returned to help bring its next chapter to life.
This renovation is ultimately a study in balance—light and dark, warm and cool, historic and contemporary—resulting in a home that feels both timeless and deeply connected to its Pacific Northwest setting.
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General Contractor / JDL Development Inc.
Photography / Katy Krider Interior Design
Designed for a young, growing family, the Stafford Hills Residence was envisioned as a home built to evolve with them—warm, enduring, and thoughtfully crafted for the years ahead.
Working in close collaboration with my client, Katy Krider Interior Design developed the interior design package, including architectural finishes, decorative lighting, and furnishings.
The interior design approach embraces a transitional aesthetic—a warm yet neutral palette that integrates traditional detailing and timeless fixtures. The result is a light-filled, inviting interior defined by subtle contrasts and tactile materials, including white oak and unlacquered brass.
The 6,500-square-foot two-level home centers around a generous Great Room combining the Kitchen, Dining, and Living Room spaces. Adjoining rooms on the main level include a Wine Room, Office, Butler’s Pantry, Mudroom, Powder Room, and a Wellness Room with sauna. The Upper Level features a Primary Suite, two en-suite Bedrooms, a Guest Suite and Entertainment Room.
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Architect / Integrate Architecture
General Contractor / iBuild PDX
Photography / Genny Moller Photography
The Forest Ridge Residence was a multi-phase renovation of a 3500 square foot home originally built in 1996 in the NW Portland hills.
When my clients purchased the home in 2020, after moving to Portland from Southern California, they envisioned extensive renovations of both the interior and exterior.
The First Phase of the project was to transform the primary living level including the Kitchen, Dining Room, Living Room and Foyer.
The existing interior was dark, poorly designed and had an applied “traditional” aesthetic. Fortunately, the primary living level had great potential - full of daylight with an incredible view of the forested ridge beyond.
To enhance the daylight in the main living space - a classic palette of warm, light reflective materials was selected including White Oak wide plank flooring and casework, Taj Mahal quartzite slab and limestone tile. The new Kitchen was re-designed to be modern yet warm and minimal yet - very functional. The stair was re-designed to be transparent - with glass guardrails and white oak handrails. The asymmetric stone wrapped fireplace quietly anchors the Living Room across from the Dining Room and Kitchen.
The Second Phase included all new interior finishes and casework in the lower level Family Room, Laundry Room and Bathroom. A new stair provided access to a new build-out of the basement into a shop and storage space. Additionally, the front facade of the house was dramatically re-designed, adding an enclosed vestibule, new glass entry doors, windows and split-faced limestone entrance.
Katy Krider Interior Design also assisted the client with the design and selection of Living and Dining Room furniture, lighting and custom case goods.
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Professional photography coming soon!
The Waterhouse Ridge Renovation reimagined a two-story home built in 1986 into a warm, refined family home designed for modern living. The comprehensive whole-home renovation was thoughtfully tailored to support the evolving needs of a young family of four, with an emphasis on connection, functionality, and casual family living.
Throughout the home, layered textures, natural materials, and carefully considered detailing introduce warmth, depth, and quiet sophistication. Reconfigured living spaces foster a stronger sense of openness and connection.
The result is a home that feels elevated yet livable — a timeless environment where refined design and relaxed family living coexist seamlessly.
The LO / MCM was a labor of love.
The house is a one-level, 1,850 square foot mid-century home built in the early 1960’s in Lake Oswego, Oregon. It was designed and built by a local builder for his family. Sadly - over the years - it had been stripped of it’s original character.
Fortunately, my client’s saw a diamond in the rough and are passionate about architectural restoration and historic preservation! They purchased the home in 2016 after spending years restoring a beautiful 1907 Foursquare Craftsman in the Hollywood neighborhood in Portland. With a little research they were able to attain the original blueprints for the home as well as photographs provided by the family who originally built it.
When they brought KKID on board their vision was to restore the primary living spaces including the Kitchen, Living Room, Family Room and Dining Room to the home’s original layout, look and feel.
Looking at the original drawings and photos there were three mid-century elements that were essential to restore: A mahogany framed translucent screen wall that divided the entry and living room from the Kitchen, Dining and Family Room; a double sided stacked stone fireplace and a full height casework wall which separated the Kitchen from the Family Room.
The material palette was restrained - re-introducing the enveloping warmth of ribbon cut Sapele Mahogany for cabinetry, wall paneling and the screen wall. The original house had terrazzo flooring, but after reviewing the options, we chose cork for it’s warmth and acoustic properties. The new casework wall separating the Kitchen from the Family Room provides display shelves and discrete storage in “hidden” drawers and cabinets.
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Wiley’s Marble Restoration
Original Drawings and Photo provided by client
The Nob Hill Oasis is a unique, warm and soulful retreat - transforming a utilitarian bathroom into a special space reflecting my client’s sense of fabulous taste and passion for design.
To organize the room it was separated into two zones - wet and dry. The “wet zone” with shower and soaking tub, is open to the “dry zone” defined by a graceful archway echoing the shapes of the masonry windows seen through the windows. To provide privacy and a bohemian touch, plants were hung in front of the windows surounding the shower and soaking tub. Using the Schluter Weti system, in floor heat was installed in both the wet and dry zone! The plumbing fixtures were Gessi and Kohler, provided by Chown.
The warm, textural palette was inspired by one of my client’s pieces of art as well as the Makelike, Drift wallpaper pattern and Zellige tile she had discovered from Cle.
The palette was woven together, after discovering remnants of the most beautiful Rosa Portugal marble slabs in a barn in Oregon wine country! Artistic Stone Design transformed the remnants into a custom floor tile pattern, arch and window surrounds.
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H.E.L.P. Group, General Contractor
Artistic Stone Design, Tile and Stone
Chown Plumbing, Plumbing Fixtures
Makelike, Wallcovering
Rejuvination, Hardware
The Dunthorpe Residence is a beautiful home built in the 1980’s in the Shingle Style reminiscient of Robert AM Stern’s early residences. The home was originally designed for the client’s young and growing family. Today, as retired ‘empty nesters’ who also enjoy entertaining - the client wished to embark on a full renovation of the home.
Beginning in 2013, while working for Skylab Architecture, I led the interior design team to renovate their formal dining room and living room into a private eight seat movie theatre and lounge.
In 2017, the client hired Katy Krider Interior Design to re-design the remainder of the house. The client’s vision was to transform the house from a more traditional interior to a more contemporary, transitional aesthetic. The scope of work involved a full kitchen and powder room renovation as well as converting three existing bedrooms to guest rooms with ensuite bathrooms. The client was inspired by a clean, light minimal color and finish palette consistent throughout the home.
The footprint of the kitchen remained the same with an island anchoring the center of the kitchen but existing column and walls were removed to create a more open, airy feel and visual connection to the dining space. The driving material in the kitchen was the cream colored Luna Quartzite used for counters surfaces and full a height backsplash. All new appliances were Sub-zero Wolf
Katy Krider Interior Design led the interior architecture and design scope of work with Tomas Greissmann as General Contractor. Pacific Design Inc. Custom Cabinetry. Photography by Sally Painter Photography. Stone fabrication by De La Tierra PDX.
This young family of four wanted to transform the main level of their home in the Forest Heights neighborhood to be a bright, open and airy space that would become the heart of their home! Their influence was a classic take on the modern farmhouse style.
The palette of materials included Pental quartz countertops with a herringbone Pental, Genesi ceramic tile backsplash. The flooring throughout the main level is D & M Casa wide plank French Oak. To contrast with the light palette, the decorative lighting and hardware was selected in oil rubbed bronze and from Rejuvination. The farmhouse sink is Kohler. Appliances are Sub Zero / Wolf.
The scope of the project will be completed in two phases; phase one was the kitchen, nook and adjacent family room. Phase two will include the dining room, living room, foyer, study, mud room and powder room.
General Contractor, Ostmo Construction
Cabinetry, Spear Design
The “Before” image of the Kitchen.
The ‘Before’ image of the Family Room.
This project was a renovation of a turn of the century building in the heart of the historic Mission District in San Francisco. The existing ground floor space was renovated to become the home of The Civic Kitchen - a recreational cooking school.
The client’s vision was to create an inviting learning space where students can take a range of culinary classes in a state of the art kitchen. Following every class students gather at a communal dining table to enjoy their culinary creations together. Open to the entry and dining space is a beautifully crafted bookcase that houses the client’s ever-evolving cookbook collection.
The palette of materials included polished, stained concrete floors and Carrara marble counters contrasted with beautiful San Francisco made Heath ceramic tile for a continuous herringbone backsplash. Black walnut and blackened steel was introduced to add a natural warmth, contrast and texture. The layered lighting approach balances both an array of decorative pendants by Cedar + Moss with focused task lighting throughout the space.
Our studio led the interior design scope of work among a talented team of consultants including:
Charles Hemminger, Architect
Angotti + Reilly, General Contractors
David Baker, Custom Casework
NRF Studio, Signage and Branding
Branding and blade sign by NRF studio
The Civic Kitchen entry on historic Mission Street. Photo courtesy of The Civic Kitchen.
The custom Walnut and rolled blackened steel library wall holds an ever growing colorful cookbook collection.
The communal table - a place to gather together to savor your culinary creation with new friends.
Class is in session! Photo courtesy of The Civic Kitchen.
Movable custom work tables of Carrara marble and steel anchor the culinary classroom creating flexible configurations for each class or event.
Grand entrance! Artistic Tile, Motor City marble stone mosaic greets you as you enter.
Early Palette Concepts
The “Before” shot. Construction was a complicated endeavor!
Colorful sidewalk markets of the Mission District
Vibrant murals of the Mission District
The Alameda Bathroom renovation transformed an existing un-usable space into an elegant and modern full bath. The house, an English style bungalow built in 1929 in the Alameda neighborhood of NE Portland, retained the original unpainted solid gumwood doors and architectural mouldings in the adjacent Living Room and Dining Room. Katy Krider Interior Design introduced Khaya veneer on the custom floating vanity and mirror to visually connect the two spaces and add warmth and sophistication to the bathroom. The floor is a grey basketweave limestone mosaic from Ann Sacks while the shower is framed with large format Calcutta marble tile and a coordinating mosaic tile. The wall mounted floating sink by Duravit adds a modern and clean look to the space.
