Interior Designer
Interior Designer Charleston SC
Planning a home means making hundreds of decisions, from furniture and lighting to fabrics, wallpaper, finishes, and the layout of each room. Managing it all on your own can make it difficult to know what works together, what to order, and how to bring every detail together in the end. deGuise Interiors takes care of that process for homeowners across Charleston, SC.
We’re a full-service interior design studio, guiding projects from design direction and sourcing through ordering, delivery, and installation. Whether you’re designing a single room or an entire home, we manage the details so every room fits together well. Founded by fifth-generation Charlestonian Gigi Chapman, deGuise Interiors has been serving homeowners since 1985.
Historic Homes
Historic Home Interior Design in Charleston
Historic homes come with real design challenges, and we work with them rather than around them. These homes often have original heart pine floors, plaster walls, existing millwork, and narrow, tall rooms, common features in single houses on the peninsula. All of it shapes how a room can be furnished.
Our design work in South of Broad and downtown starts with these existing features. From there, we choose furniture size, lighting, and fabric to fit them. A single house parlor with 11-foot ceilings needs different lighting and seating than a new building with standard ceilings. A piazza-facing room needs fabrics and finishes that can handle filtered outdoor light for part of the day.
We plan for these details from the first walkthrough, not after the furniture has already arrived. That’s true whether we’re working in South of Broad or anywhere else in historic districts.
Coastal Interior Design for New Construction in Charleston, SC
New construction near rivers and marshes needs a different approach. Our coastal interior design work for these homes starts earlier. We often work alongside the builder and architect, so decisions about lighting, cabinets, trim, and finishes get made before the walls go up, not adjusted after the fact.
Coastal light shifts through the day and changes how paint and fabric look. That’s one reason we like clients to see materials in person before ordering. Humidity and salt air also affect how long fabrics and finishes last. For a marsh-facing home, we choose fabrics and finishes made to handle that kind of weather. Our interior design services for new construction cover lighting, fabrics, finishes, and cabinets as one plan, not a series of separate decisions.
Full-Service Interior Design for Complete Home Projects in Charleston, SC
Our full service interior design in Charleston, SC covers a project from start to finish. This includes planning, sourcing, ordering, delivery, installation, and final styling. We provide interior design services for homeowners who want one team handling every detail, instead of coordinating separate designers, vendors, and installers themselves.
This is the same standard whether the project is a full home, a new construction build, or a single room that has been holding back the rest of the house. We start with a consultation to understand the space and how you use it. From there, we move into sourcing from our network of trade brands and vendors, followed by ordering and a final installation and styling visit.
Interior Design Services for Neighborhood Homes
Every project is shaped around the home itself and the work it needs, from historic houses downtown to new builds near the water.
South of Broad
We work with homeowners in South of Broad on interiors that respect the character of historic homes. We choose furniture size, lighting, fabrics, wallpaper, and finishes that fit the home’s existing architecture.
Downtown
Downtown homes often combine historic details with the needs of modern living. Our interior designers help coordinate furnishings, lighting, fabrics, finishes, and room layouts so the updates feel right for the home.
Daniel Island
For homes on Daniel Island, we work with homeowners on furnishings, lighting, finishes, and how open living areas connect to each other. The design is planned around the home’s architecture and how each space is used.
Sullivan's Island
Coastal homes on Sullivan’s Island need extra care around natural light, humidity, salt air, and materials. We choose furnishings, fabrics, lighting, and finishes with those conditions in mind.
Isle of Palms
We provide interior design services for homes on Isle of Palms. This includes projects where homeowners want to update furnishings, improve one room, or plan the interior of an entire home.
Recent Charleston Interior Design Projects
Client Testimonial
What Clients Say About Us
“We looked for an interior designer in Charleston for almost a year before finding deGuise. Our house is on the peninsula and has all the odd little things you’d expect from an old home, low doorways, uneven floors, oddly shaped rooms. Gigi and her team never tried to fight any of it. They just made it work. Every piece feels like it was made for our house.”
Sarah M.
South of Broad
“deGuise gave us true full service interior design from start to finish. We were building a new house near the marsh and had zero idea where to start with lighting, cabinets, or fabric. They handled all of it, showed up at the job site to check on things, and even helped us pick tile before the walls went up. Would not do a build without them again.”
Daniel Island
“I only needed help with one room, my living room, and was worried a design firm wouldn’t want a small project. deGuise’s interior design services were just as thorough for one room as they clearly are for a whole house. They came to my home, understood how my family actually uses the space, and the room finally feels finished.”
Downtown
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deGuise Interiors has designed homes here since 1985, from historic properties on the peninsula to new construction in West Ashley. Designers stay on the project from the first consultation through final installation, so nothing gets handed off or lost between stages. Consultations are free, whether you are working through one room or planning a full renovation.
Areas We Serve
We follow the same design steps for homeowners in every area we serve.
Frequently Asked Questions
We handle both. After you approve a choice, we place and track the order and manage delivery, then finish with installation and final styling, so you don’t coordinate vendors yourself.
Yes, we regularly design for historic homes in South of Broad and the downtown peninsula, working with original floors, plaster walls, millwork, and room layouts already in place.
Yes, we work directly with builders and architects on new construction, coordinating lighting, cabinets, and finish decisions from early in the build process.
Yes, in historic Charleston homes especially, that often means working around existing floors, walls, or millwork already in place, and many clients expand the project once the first room is done.
You can use your own furniture. We’re glad to design around pieces you already own and love, and bring in new furniture only where it’s needed.