The Round Table
five design minds, one verdictBring us your kitchen question.
Five design experts debate it — function, taste, luxury, personality, resale — and Della hands you a verdict with a next step. Attach a photo and they'll critique the real thing.
Meet the round table
Frank Dunleavy
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.
Julian Ashe
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.
Renata Voss
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.
Marisol Rey
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.
Darius D'Souza
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.
Della Hart
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.