Mara Ellison
Principal
Mara trained as a furniture maker before she started building rooms. She still draws the cabinet details herself and runs the first meeting at every house.
The studio
A small crew, one house at a time.
Hollow Oak started as a furniture practice that kept getting asked to fix the room around the table. The people below are fictional. The way the work is organized is the part a real remodeler would keep.
Jonah Peck
Design director
Jonah is the architect in the studio. He draws the plans, argues for the window that should stay, and stays on the project through the last site visit.
Adele Navarro
Project lead
Adele keeps the schedule, the allowances, and the weekly note. If a selection is late, she is the person who will say so before it costs a week.
Chris Dalton
Lead carpenter
Chris runs the site. He has finished kitchens in pier-and-beam houses from Tarrytown to Leander and still prefers a job he can explain to the owner on a Friday.
Process
From the first visit to the punch list.
01
Walk the house
We visit, listen, and measure. The first meeting is about how you actually live in the rooms, not a mood board.
02
Draw it
Plans, a material palette, and a model of the rooms that change. You see the work before anyone opens a wall.
03
Price it once
A fixed proposal with allowances called out. If the scope changes, we write a change order before the work does.
04
Build it
Our carpenters, not a rotating cast of subs you have never met. You get a weekly note and a clean site.
05
Walk it back
A punch list, a care guide for the finishes, and a two-year workmanship warranty on a real project.
A note on this demo
What a client would replace.
The names, the license line, and the project stories are written for the demo. A real studio would swap in its own interviews, its license and insurance, and photographs from finished jobs. The pages, the project template, and the editor stay.
Ask for a walkthrough or read the photo credits.