About us
Fra Cattabiani Design provides interior design and renovation solutions through the concepts of Healing Architecture and Feng Shui. Our mission is to tailor the space around the people to create a supportive and safe space where to be themselves and grow ideas.Our goal is to make you feel welcome when you arrive at home, free to live your life in a space that reflects your needs, easy to maintain and that helps you to work towards the habits you want to incorporate in your life.The service that we offer is a journey for the clients: an honest understanding of their needs and goals, the plan (supportive design) and the execution (construction work).
Francesca Cattabiani achieved her Master Degree in Architecture in Ferrara, Italy. During her career she studied in Spain, Turkey and Mexico, where she completed her final thesis and worked with governmental housing programs.Her experience expanded in Mexico, Italy and USA, where she worked in residential and commercial projects, new constructions and restoration of historical buildings.Her focus took a new trajectory when she became a yoga teacher and she started developing a deep practice of listening to needs. At that point it was clear to her that the inner support we can all give to ourselves being clear to us and listening to what we really need, can be reflected towards the space where we live with the goal of making it a support for us and our life. Francesca includes concepts from Feng Shui and Healing Architecture in her approach to design, with the goal to tailor and adapt a space to people and not reverse.
Services
Renovate your life
Total building and habits revolution, applicable on your entire house or on single rooms
This is the service for you if you want to renovate your home or part of your home based on an informed Feng Shui evaluation, if you feel you need more support in your daily life, activities or need help on supporting new habits.
Analysis of the space and definition of goals of the project
Design of the new interiors
Definition of finishes and furniture
Interior landscape design (optional)
Construction work supervision.
Change your point of view
Applicable on your entire house or on single rooms
Consultation based on Feng Shui values to reorganize your house or one space. We work with the existing layout of the house and existing furniture (as much as possible). The goal is to move around the energy and balance your home to give you a new perspective and a better life.
Analysis of the space and definition of the problems and cures
Design of options through sketches
Selection and coordination of missing pieces/ finishing interventions (if needed)
Interior landscape design (optional)
Contact
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Italian Attic
The project is a two-story apartment. The first floor features an open-plan layout, encompassing the entrance, kitchen, living room, access to the stairs, a bedroom, and a bathroom. The second floor includes a bedroom, a windowless storage room, and a bathroom.The client, L., is a young professional purchasing his first home. Living alone, he seeks a space that supports his social life while giving him the freedom to embrace this new chapter in his life.To meet these goals, we opened up the space on the first floor, allocating more room to the living and dining areas. A brick veneer wall was introduced to visually connect the two levels. The selected materials and color palette create a distinct ambiance for each floor: the first level features bold tones of black, dark grey, and red, while the upper floor softens with warmer hues of brown, white, and blue.
Baldwin Residence
The house is a one-hundred-year-old, two-story building with an addition on the lower floor built during the 90s. The previous owner wanted to avoid selling the house to a company that would have torn it down and rebuilt it because their desire was to find someone who would appreciate and take care of it.That was the spirit a couple expecting their first child had when they bought the house. They wanted to make the space ready to welcome their growing family, ready to fit family and friends, a big Christmas tree, and lots of adventures.The plan of the first floor was labyrinthine, as the addition communicated only with the kitchen through a hallway. The addition was a very big and dark room compared with all the other rooms, as it had only one window facing north. The position of the doors between the entrance, the dining room, and the kitchen made it difficult to place furniture. The kitchen had a fake ceiling with strong lighting only in the center of the room, which made the space feel smaller and not bright enough to work in.The proposal considered how to make the energy flow better from the entrance through the first floor, opening the space and rebalancing the light. The beams and walls and the changes in the flooring suggest three different spaces: the first living room, close to the front window, a space to share with guests and to connect with the world outside; a central dining room, close to the kitchen, as the heart of the house; and a big, cozy family room, where to play music and spend time facing the backyard. The family room can be closed with a double barn door, not visible from the entrance, that gives privacy to guests.The kitchen and the dining area are divided by a bar that keeps the communication between the two areas.
