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Scheer & Co. Interior Design Timeless, elevated interiors rooted in history with a contemporary twist — and a little (or big!) dose of drama. Scheer & Co.

is a high-end residential and boutique commercial interior design firm based in Austin, TX.

10/22/2026

WHY DESIGNERS CHARGE MARKUPS · PART I OF III

Would a retailer’s markup bother you more if it appeared as a separate line on your receipt?

When you buy a sofa, handbag, or moisturizer, the retail price includes a markup. It helps pay for employees, overhead, customer service—and, yes, profit. It’s a business, after all.

Most of us don’t ask the store what it paid wholesale and then negotiate from there. We accept the retail price. Yet when a designer discloses a markup, it can suddenly feel like a questionable extra charge.

Designers who sell products are resellers, too. And markup isn’t the same as pure profit. It supports the business behind your purchase.

Every firm structures its compensation differently, through design fees, product markup, or a combination. At Scheer & Co., we explain ours from the beginning.

Seeing how a price is built should help you understand it. And you should absolutely understand what you’re getting for it.
Coming up next — Part II: the expertise, discernment, and work behind sourcing—before we’ve even ordered the thing.
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This house had a real identity crisis.1980s Texas limestone, Spanish Colonial details, and a few unfortunate detours int...
10/14/2026

This house had a real identity crisis.

1980s Texas limestone, Spanish Colonial details, and a few unfortunate detours into 1990s big-box-store special. Decades of competing styles without much conversation between them.

Our job? Edit. Refine. Unify.

For this young family, we introduced a more cohesive architectural language rooted in Old World French and English influences, balancing timeless elegance with everyday comfort.

A sultry, gentleman’s club-inspired parlor. An elegant dining room layered with European influences. A lighter, more relaxed family room. Reimagined bathrooms, architectural detailing, and a thoughtful mix of antiques and contemporary furnishings brought new character throughout.

But not everything needed reinventing. Some spaces called for transformation; others simply needed restraint.

Because cohesion doesn’t mean every room looks alike. It’s about creating a connective thread that allows different eras, moods, and materials to coexist.

Collected, not decorated.

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10/03/2026

When you hire an interior designer, you’re commissioning functional, livable art—not hiring someone to simply execute your Pinterest board.

You choose a designer because you connect with their work and their point of view, just as you would an artist. You may discuss the goals, lifestyle, budget, and inspiration, but the value comes from seeing your home through their lens.

Designers have spent years refining a creative process built on experience. Ours is rooted in depth, layering, history, scale, proportion, function, and feeling. That’s the expertise you’re investing in.

Design isn’t math; there isn’t one right answer. The best results come from collaboration, trust, and allowing your designer the space to do what you hired them to do. Otherwise, you’re paying designer rates for a project expeditor.

Trust the expertise and the process. I guarantee you will end up with something far better than a collection of your original ideas: a deeply personal, functional, livable work of art that you, your family, and your friends get to experience every day.

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09/24/2026

An interior designer’s job is to give you fewer, better choices, not show you every option under the sun

Renovating or furnishing a home requires hundreds—sometimes thousands—of decisions. At some point, more choices make it all more exhausting.

That’s where a good interior designer comes in.

Before I show a client three fabrics for a sofa, I may have looked at 47. I’ve already considered durability, fiber content, cleanability, availability, lead time, budget—and whether that fabric actually makes sense for the way you live.

I already understand from you who’s using the sofa: Kids? Dogs? Dinner guests? Book club? Someone who routinely falls asleep on it?

Those questions matter just as much as whether something is beautiful.

Great interior design is about discernment: knowing what to eliminate, what deserves consideration, and what will actually work for your home, your family and your life.

You don’t have to become an expert in upholstery, lighting, plumbing fixtures, stone, millwork, furniture construction, paint, hardware and 50,000 other things just to renovate your house.

That’s our job.

Your job is to make a handful of informed decisions—and then get on with your life.

 

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Being included once again in Austin Home’s Best Interior Designers list is deeply gratifying — especially alongside so m...
09/16/2026

Being included once again in Austin Home’s Best Interior Designers list is deeply gratifying — especially alongside so many designers whose work and firms I admire.

Recognition like this often makes me think about how we got here so I figured it was a good time to tell you about myself and how the firm came to be.

First of all, my name confounds people - it’s Killy, rhymes with silly ;) Apropos, because while I present as pretty buttoned up, those close to me know I’m actually pretty goofy. 
Honestly, beneath the polished exterior I’m forever an awkward pre-teen. 

Before interior design, there was theater, dance and singing. Years of performing arts. There was competitive swimming. There was writing, a degree in English, and a lifelong fascination with storytelling.

Through childhood, college and the first few years of young adulthood none of those interests felt like they were leading somewhere specific.

But now it’s crystal clear how much they shape the work I do every day.

Theater taught me to think about experience, pacing, emotion, presentation and how to handle situations when things don’t go according to plan.

As an individual sport, swimming taught me to compete against myself, to work toward beating my own best.

Writing taught me to look for the story, communicate an idea clearly, edit ruthlessly and understand that the smallest details can change the meaning of the whole.
Interior design manages to put all those skills into practice. 

Thirteen years into Scheer & Co., I’m enormously proud of the spaces we’ve created. But I’m even prouder that each one feels rooted in the people who live there and the life happening inside it.

So thank you, Austin Home, for including us again this year. And thank you to our clients, team, collaborators, builders, architects, makers and craftspeople who help us bring these stories to life.

Here’s to many more years of telling stories through the built environment. In many ways, we’re just getting started.

09/11/2026

You don’t hire an interior designer to save money.

You hire one because renovating and furnishing a home is a complicated undertaking, and most people do not want a second full-time job managing hundreds of interconnected decisions, vendors, contractors, lead times, deliveries and details. And associated mistakes are expensive.

But more importantly, you’re paying for someone else’s expertise.

I think about it the same way I think about a great restaurant. You can buy excellent ingredients and cook a very good meal at home. Or, you can go to an exceptional restaurant for a memorable, one of a kind experience. 

You’re not paying a chef simply to prepare food. You’re paying for years of experience, technique, judgment, experimentation and point of view — and for the ability to turn all of that into something you couldn’t reproduce yourself.

Interior design works the same way:  You can find inspiration on social media and Pinterest. You can hire a builder to execute a set of plans. You can buy beautiful furniture. 

The challenge is turning your architecture, routines, history, interests and taste into one coherent home — while also managing everything it takes to actually get there.

Hiring an interior designer is not the least expensive way to renovate or furnish a home. Much like eating at an exceptional restaurant isn’t the least expensive way to have dinner.

The value is in turning a significant investment into something coherent, deeply personal and greater than the sum of its parts.

A home that feels like it could never belong to anyone else.



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Collected, not decorated.Recently featured by the lovel Charming Austin Texas.In our Pleasant Cove project in Austin, th...
09/02/2026

Collected, not decorated.

Recently featured by the lovel Charming Austin Texas.

In our Pleasant Cove project in Austin, the goal was never to make the house feel newly designed. It was to make it feel as though it had evolved naturally over time.

The home had accumulated a mix of architectural styles and renovations over the decades, so our work was largely about creating cohesion: understanding what was worth preserving, introducing new elements with restraint, and layering antiques, vintage pieces, contemporary furnishings and custom design in a way that felt personal rather than perfectly matched.

That’s also how we think about timeless interior design more broadly. A timeless home isn’t necessarily one filled with “classic” things. It’s one where the architecture has been listened to, where old and new are allowed to coexist, and where the details reveal themselves slowly.

Patina next to polish. Antiques next to custom pieces. Traditional architecture with moments of surprise. Rooms that feel designed, but not overly decorated.

For us, a thoughtful renovation should feel additive rather than corrective. Before replacing everything, ask: What is worth saving? What already gives this house character? What could be restored, reimagined or made more meaningful?

Often, those are the elements that ultimately give a home its soul.

Save this if you’re planning a renovation, restoring an older home, or trying to create an interior that feels collected over time rather than finished all at once. And send it to someone who believes the best rooms should get better with age.



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08/29/2026

One of the most important—and least discussed—things to understand about budgeting for a custom interior design project is this: design determines cost.

At the beginning of a project, we may know the size of the house, the general scope, your budget and the level of design you’re drawn to. What we don’t know yet are the hundreds of decisions that will ultimately determine what the project actually costs.

Is the bathroom getting simple tile, or a custom pattern with multiple materials and borders? Is the pantry painted shelving, or beautifully detailed cabinetry? Are we buying a console, or designing one specifically for your entry?

Those are design decisions. They’re also budget decisions.

The richness, layering and detail you see in highly customized interiors has to be designed before it can be accurately priced.

That doesn’t mean ignoring the budget while we chase ideas. We design with a budget in mind—deciding where to invest, where to exercise restraint and what matters most. But design isn’t always linear. As ideas develop, something that began as a simple detail may become one of the things that gives the house its identity.

That isn’t necessarily scope creep. It’s the design revealing itself.

An experienced interior designer should be able to tell you whether your budget and ambitions are roughly in alignment before you begin. But an early budget is still a target.

The real cost becomes clearer as the design becomes clearer—because ultimately, you can’t fully price something that hasn’t been designed yet.

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07/09/2026

Designers are trained to see in three dimensions. We can look at a furniture plan, fireplace elevation, or space plan and start to understand the volume of a room, the sightlines, the scale, the focal points, and how everything will eventually come together.

But for most clients, that is an understandably heavy lift.

To help convey our ideas in the early stages of our interior design process, we pair our floor plans and space plans with quick, loose design studies that start to bring the rooms to life.

These are not final renderings or meant to lock in every decision. They’re meant to communicate the feeling.

These early interior sketches are one of the most useful tools in our design process. They give our clients enough information to understand the direction, react to it, and talk through what needs to evolve — clarifying the idea without killing the imagination, and giving us a shared path forward.

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07/02/2026

What do I do with design work we do that never sees the light of day? No, really, I’m asking: what should I do with all of that great work? 

Kidding, sort of. So far, what I’ve come up with is to share it on Instagram so you all know how we work and what we produce during the design process. 

Honestly, though, unused doesn’t mean wasted. A version of an idea almost always finds its way into another project eventually. One client’s loss is another client’s gain!

We don’t repeat details from one (finished) project to the next — I mean, the whole point of hiring an interior designer is getting something personal, thoughtful, and unique. But if a concept is never realized? Fair game.

For this design scheme, the clients’ vision shifted between the completion (and approval) of the conceptual design direction and these schematic visualizations. While they originally wanted to lean into the true character of their Folk Victorian home, once they saw that direction rendered, they realized there’s a big difference between a historic interior design style they loved looking at and one they want to live with every day.

That distinction has become a huge part of our design process. We now ask clients to get very honest about the difference between liking a look and wanting to live in it, potentially forever. Clearly determining that upfront has been a game changer. 

So there, I guess I answered my own question about what to do with designs that end up on the cutting room floor, which is less of a graveyard and more of a very organized waiting room.

A couple of details from this concept have already made their way into other projects. We installed the same living room light fixture in a recently completed project, and you may spot a similar custom banquette design in the coming year.

I’m still waiting for someone to let me layer up a wallpaper border on a ceiling in a way that references history but with a fresh take. Holler if that someone is you :)

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Austin, TX
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