Arcaya Customer Design Case

An American Home That Ages Well

Classic bones, contemporary furniture, one warm palette. Six rooms designed, built, shipped and installed by Arcaya.

Vaulted great room with exposed beams, green velvet sofa and a full-height oak library wall — The house came to us as architecture — vaulted ceilings, arches, travertine floors. Everything inside it is ours.

The Brief

Simple, not plain

American style is easy to describe and hard to get right. Too literal and the house becomes a furniture catalog; too pared back and it loses the warmth people want to come home to. This family asked for the middle: generous, relaxed, and quiet enough that nothing in it dates.
Arcaya took the whole interior. We drew the library wall, the arches and the millwork profiles, planned every room against the vaulted shell, then designed and manufactured the furniture that had to sit inside it. The architecture stays traditional; the furniture is unmistakably of today. That contrast is the whole design.
Holding it together is one palette — warm white plaster, honeyed oak, travertine, forest green as the only accent. The green appears on the sofa, again on the lounge joinery, again on a bedroom arch. Because our drawings and our factory are the same team, that is one specification approved once, not three near-misses from three suppliers.

01Great Room

Under a two-story vault, ordinary furniture disappears. A floor-to-cornice oak library wall gives the room a vertical anchor and takes its stain from the beams overhead. The seating then goes low and round so the volume above stays open — the green velvet sofa is ours, cut to the width of the bay so the window frames it rather than cutting across it.

Great room with oak library wall, ladder, green sofa and two rounded white lounge chairs — Oak library wall with fluted glass uppers and a rolling ladder; closed base cabinets for everything that shouldn't be on display.

Green channel-tufted sofa and sculpted plaster cocktail tables against the bay window — Channel-tufted sofa in forest velvet; nesting plaster tables that pull apart for a crowd.

The lounge chairs have no visible legs or arms. In a room this size that is the difference between soft and merely furnished, and it keeps the floor plane reading as one continuous surface from the entry through to the stair.

The plaster tables are ours as well — three pieces that sit as one when the room is quiet and pull apart when it isn't.

02Dining Room

This room hosts. We built a ten-seat oak table on turned pedestals, set inboard of the end seats so two more chairs fit at Thanksgiving without anyone straddling a base. The coffered ceiling is already the ornament, so one linear fixture replaces the chandelier, and hand-woven rush seats bring warmth into a room that is otherwise stone and plaster.

Dining room with coffered ceiling, three arches, oak table and rush-seat chairs — Ten-seat oak table on turned pedestals; one linear fixture sized to the table, not the room.

Dining room looking through to the white kitchen, with sideboard and gallery wall — The sightline runs from the table straight into the kitchen; both rooms share one white.

Painted sideboard with a small gallery wall of framed art — Frames hung to the sideboard's width, not the wall's — a composition rather than decoration.

03Family Lounge

This is the room the family actually lives in — breakfast, homework, an open book and an afternoon coffee. It is also the only room that got the color. A full wall of forest green joinery runs floor to ceiling behind a long oak table, built at counter height rather than dining height so prep and eating share one surface. Doors are handleless with a routed finger pull; a period profile would have fought the modern table.

Family lounge with forest green joinery, counter-height oak table and garden doors — Handleless green joinery runs floor to ceiling; the table doubles as prep space and homework desk.

Counter-height oak table with rush-seat chairs in front of the green joinery wall — Six rush-seat chairs at counter height; the trestle base is kept to one side to clear knees.

Family lounge with wood blinds, ceramic pendant and potted palm — Wood blinds instead of drapery, and a sink set under the window — an everyday room, made easy to keep.

04Primary Bedroom

One red piece, and everything else white. The bleached oak four-poster stands under the vault without a canopy — post height drawn against the slope, tall enough to hold the room and short enough to clear the ceiling. Then one deliberate exception: a fringed crimson settee, curved so it reads as furniture from the doorway rather than a bench blocking the bed.

Primary bedroom with bleached oak four-poster, iron chandelier and crimson velvet settee — Linen headboard with nailhead trim; nightstands painted slate blue to keep the oak count in the room to two pieces.

Primary bedroom from the side, showing louvered doors to the terrace and a tall oak chest — Louvered doors open the bedroom to the terrace; the tall chest replaces a dresser and a wardrobe both.

05Suite Gallery & Bath

The bath is reached through a barrel-vaulted gallery — plaster ceiling, compass parquet, one pale blue reeded cabinet at the end of it, which turns a corridor into the calmest thirty seconds in the house. Inside, the tub was centred on the arch during install rather than on the bathroom wall, because the view from the bedroom is the one that actually gets used. Chevron marble on one wall only; the rest is dove grey cabinetry with drawers graded shallow to deep.

Barrel-vaulted gallery with iron lanterns, parquet floor and a pale blue reeded cabinet — Reeded cabinet on a slim brass frame; console and mirror in the same dark oak.

Arched opening framing the freestanding tub in the primary bath — The arch frames the tub, so the bath is a view before it is a room.

Primary bath with chevron marble feature wall, double vanity and arched mirrors — Double vanity in dove grey with polished nickel fittings; reeded glass repeated from the gallery cabinet.

06Children's Room

No theme, no character furniture. A carved bed in soft cream, dove grey walls, a sage arch by the door. It suits a six-year-old now and a sixteen-year-old later. The carving is hand-finished and painted rather than molded, and every finish here is low-VOC and water-based, specified to the same standard as the rest of the house.

Children's room with oak loft rail, carved cream bed and sage arch — Glass pendants hung at three heights from the loft rail, not the peak, so the light reaches the bed.

Detail of the carved bed, pedestal side table and brass lamp — Pedestal side table and faceted brass lamp — grown-up pieces at a child's scale.

Rooms Six, whole-home furnishing

Palette Warm white, oak, travertine, forest green

Made Custom, through our own factory

Delivered One container, one install date

Why Arcaya

What you cannot buy off a showroom floor

A house like this one is not assembled from a catalog. It is drawn to its own walls, built to its own dimensions, and finished in colors approved under its own daylight. Four things make that possible, and they are the same four we bring to every project.

01 — Drawn to the room

Every piece sized to your walls

The sofa was cut to the width of the bay. The four-poster was drawn against the slope of the vault. The dining pedestals were set inboard so two more chairs fit at the holidays. Standard furniture cannot do this, and it is the difference you feel walking in.

02 — One color, everywhere

Velvet, lacquer and oak that match

Forest green on a sofa and forest green on joinery come from different trades and usually miss. Because we design and manufacture both, it is one specification approved once — the reason six rooms photograph as one house.

03 — Our own factory

Custom without the custom premium

Twenty years of manufacturing partners, no showroom markup, no importer in the middle. Hand-carved beds, hand-woven rush seats and full-height joinery at prices that make whole-home commissioning realistic rather than aspirational.

04 — One point of contact

You approve. We handle the rest.

Plans, samples, manufacturing, inspection, freight, customs, install and styling — all one team, one schedule, one invoice. No chasing eleven suppliers across eleven lead times.

How It Was Delivered

One team, first drawing to final styling

One point of contact from the first plan to the last cushion. Every custom piece went through our own shop drawings, our own factory and our own inspection — unpacked, checked against the drawings and photographed before it left the floor. It then shipped as one consolidated container, on one manifest, to one arrival date, and our crew installed and styled it.

The family walked into a finished house — beds made, rugs down, the last crate gone.

Your house can be the same. Send us your floor plan and the rooms you want furnished, and we will come back with a plan, a palette and a fixed number — no obligation, and no showroom visit required.