Residential · Design-Build
Whole-Home Gut Renovation
in New Providence, NJ.
Gut renovation, interior design, remodel planning, space planning, material selections, and licensed design-build execution.
- Location
- New Providence, NJ
- Project type
- Single-family residence
- Year completed
- 2025
- Scope
- Whole-home gut renovation
- Square footage
- Confirmed by Vandana
- Duration
- Confirmed by Vandana
- Disciplines
- Design + licensed build
- Style
- Modern luxury
Overview
A complete reimagining — every surface, every selection, every finished detail.
The New Providence project began as a single-family home that was not serving the way the family lived. The bones were good. The layout was not. The finishes had aged into a different decade than the rest of the home. The brief from the start was direct: take it down to the studs, plan the new home around how this family actually moves through their day, and bring it back up with materials and details that hold up to use.
Amor Design led the project end to end — interior design, re-planning of the floor plan, material and finish selection, and licensed design-build execution. That last piece is what changes the trajectory of a renovation at this scale: the design decisions don't hand off to a separate contractor and lose alignment in translation. The same studio that draws the kitchen elevation also coordinates the trade scheduling, the material deliveries, and the punch list at handover.
The result is a home that feels deliberately quiet. There are no accent walls competing for attention, no statement-piece light fixtures vying with the kitchen island for primacy. The work the design is doing is in proportion, in plane changes, in material transitions handled with intention. This is the kind of luxury that a homeowner notices after they've been living in the space for six months — the way a doorway lines up with a window across the house, the way the kitchen island accommodates two people working in parallel, the way the bathroom feels twice as large as it actually is.
For Amor Design, this project is the clearest articulation of the studio's working philosophy: spaces that are planned well, selected carefully, and brought to life with confidence.
Process
From inquiry to completion — six phases, one studio.
- 01
Inquiry & fit review
The conversation started with a clear scope — whole-home gut, full design-build engagement, modern-luxury aesthetic. From the first call we knew the project fit Amor Design's bandwidth and the family's expectations matched the studio's working style. Fit reviews exist precisely so neither side discovers a mismatch a month into demo.
- 02
Discovery & site understanding
A working session on-site: walking the existing rooms, measuring what would stay and what would not, mapping the family's daily flow. Where do they enter? Where does mail land? Where do groceries unload? Where do guests gather? The structural conditions and the lived conditions get equal weight in the discovery phase, and they shape every decision downstream.
- 03
Space planning & concept design
The new floor plan was developed against the discovery findings. The kitchen moved. The primary suite reoriented to capture morning light. A wall that everyone assumed had to come down ended up staying — keeping it preserved a sight line that made the whole house read larger. The concept design phase is where the project's character locks in; later phases refine and execute against this foundation.
- 04
Selections & project planning
Materials, finishes, fixtures, lighting, furniture, cabinetry — every category specified to the SKU and approved before demo started. The selections phase is the difference between a project that holds its budget and one that drifts. Detailed planning also informs the build sequence: long-lead items get ordered while demo runs, so the calendar compresses.
- 05
Licensed design-build execution
Demo through trim. The licensed-build piece means the same studio that drew the cabinet elevations also coordinates the cabinet maker, the tile installer, the electrician, the plumber, and the painter. When something inevitably needs adjustment in the field, the decision-maker is in the same room as the trades, not a phone call away.
- 06
Final details & completion
Styling, art placement, the punch list. The final phase is what separates a finished construction project from a finished home. Light bulb temperatures get matched across rooms. Switch plates get aligned with door frames. The kitchen drawer pulls get oriented consistently. The thousand small decisions that, taken together, are how the project earns its modern-luxury claim.
Material Palette
Honest materials. Restrained pairings.
Gallery
The finished home, in detail.
Real photography lands in week 3 once the photographer's edits arrive. Until then, placeholder tiles sit at the right aspect ratios so layout stays consistent.