Turn Key Design: How We Furnish From Afar
Our Turn Key service lets remote owners walk into a finished home. Go behind the scenes of how we design, source, and install it all.
There’s a particular kind of excitement that comes with getting the keys to a Tahoe home. There’s also the realization that an empty house is only the beginning.
Furniture needs to be selected. Rugs sized. Lighting sourced. Art hung. Beds dressed. Kitchen drawers filled. And when you live hours—or a flight—away, managing all those details can quickly turn a mountain retreat into another project on your list.
That’s why we created our Turn Key Design service.
It’s our most comprehensive approach to furnishing a home, designed especially for second homeowners who want to enjoy Tahoe without spending their weekends managing deliveries, assembling furniture, or making dozens of design decisions from afar.
We take care of the details so that when you arrive, your home is ready to live in.
It Starts With the Whole Home
Turn Key design is different from furnishing a room here and a room there. From the beginning, we look at the home as a whole.
We consider how you’ll actually use it: where everyone gathers after a day on the mountain, how many people you typically host, where kids pile in, where you want a quiet moment with coffee, and how the house needs to function when friends and family come to stay.
From there, we create a cohesive design plan rooted in our California Alpine aesthetic—a balance of contemporary mountain living and relaxed California sophistication.
Warm woods, natural materials, tactile textiles, comfortable upholstery, sculptural lighting, and a restrained palette create spaces that feel connected to Tahoe without relying on the expected mountain-home clichés.
The goal is a home that belongs here, but still feels distinctly yours.
Then, We Source Everything
And when we say everything, we mean much more than sofas and dining tables.
Once the design direction is established, our team manages the sourcing and selection of the pieces that bring the home together—from major furnishings and lighting down to the layers that make a room feel complete.
Rugs, window treatments, pillows, throws, art, accessories, bedding and finishing details are all considered as part of the larger design.
This is where working with a designer from afar can make such a difference. Instead of receiving dozens of boxes at your primary residence or coordinating individual vendors yourself, you have one team overseeing how everything fits together.
Because a finished home isn't created by any one piece. It’s the layering that makes it feel effortless.
We Manage What Happens Behind the Scenes
The part of furnishing a home that looks easy rarely is.
Behind every finished room are orders to track, lead times to manage, deliveries to coordinate, pieces to inspect, trades to schedule, and inevitable surprises to solve.
Our team handles that process for you.
It means you don’t need to be in Truckee every time something arrives. You don’t need to spend a ski weekend waiting for a delivery window. And you don't need to figure out where the missing nightstand went.
We manage the moving pieces while keeping our eyes on the finished home.
For our clients who live elsewhere most of the year, that peace of mind is an important part of the investment.
Then Comes Installation Day
This is one of our favorite parts.
Once everything is ready, our team installs the home as a complete vision rather than piecing it together over months of deliveries.
Furniture is placed. Rugs are rolled out. Lighting is installed. Beds are made. Art is hung. Pillows are fluffed. Accessories find their places.
Those final layers may look effortless, but they're intentional. They’re what take a house from furnished to finished.
And they're what allow you to experience the design the way we envisioned it from the beginning.
You Arrive. And It Feels Like Home.
Ultimately, Turn Key Design is about giving you something increasingly valuable: your time in Tahoe.
Your second home should be the place you come to step away from everyday logistics—not where you find another list of things that need to get done.
We want your first weekend in your newly finished home to begin the same way every future weekend should.
Drop your bags. Pour something good. Light the fire. Look around.
You're home.
