Commercial Interior Designers Serving Pasadena, CA

It depends on scope — an office buildout on South Lake Avenue costs differently than a retail fitout in Old Pasadena. What we can tell you upfront: we source furniture and fixtures direct from manufacturers at wholesale instead of marking up through a dealer catalog, which typically saves clients 20-30% compared to a traditional commercial interior design firm. We’ll walk your Pasadena property and give you a real number before you commit to anything.

Honest answer: our primary studio is in Newport Beach, and we regularly serve clients throughout Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley. We’re not physically based there, but we treat every Pasadena project with the same wholesale pricing, in-house permit process, and direct principal attention we’d give a job closer to home. If you’re comparing commercial interior designers, ask each one point-blank whether they’ve actually walked your building — we have, or we will.

We handle it ourselves. Full permit submittal packages and plan-check reviews go directly through the City of Pasadena Planning & Community Development Department as part of our commercial design-build process — not outsourced to a third party you have to coordinate separately. That’s usually the part of a commercial interior design project in Pasadena that drags the longest when a firm doesn’t have direct experience with local plan-check standards.

When you hire a designer and a separate contractor, someone has to translate between the two — and that’s usually where Pasadena projects go over budget. Our commercial design-build model keeps design, permitting, and construction under one accountable team. We check mechanical, electrical, and Title 24 requirements at the drawing stage, source FF&E at wholesale, and supervise the contractor through final punch-list. One point of contact for your whole project.

It’s real — we’re not tied to any single manufacturer’s catalog, so we source commercial furniture and fixtures at open-trade wholesale pricing, which typically runs 20-30% below what an office furniture dealership charges once their markup is baked in. For a Pasadena or San Gabriel Valley project of any real size, that difference can cover a meaningful chunk of your FF&E budget. Ask to see the wholesale invoice directly — we don’t hide that number.

We built the studio around boutique commercial interior design on purpose — a small shop in Old Pasadena or Playhouse Village gets the same direct attention from Jeannice as a larger corporate office project across town, not leftover hours after bigger accounts. Shop interior design and small business office projects go through the identical five-phase process we use for anything else, just scaled to the footprint.

Operating out of our Newport Beach studio, we regularly cover Los Angeles County and the San Gabriel Valley — Pasadena, Arcadia, Monrovia, Altadena, and surrounding business districts like South Lake Avenue and Playhouse Village. If you searched commercial interior design Los Angeles and landed here, the honest answer is: yes, we cover Pasadena, but we’re commuting in from Newport Beach to do it, not sitting in a local office there.

You’ll deal directly with Jeannice Carrillo, the studio’s principal designer, from the first walkthrough of your Pasadena property through the final punch-list. A lot of commercial interior design firms hand you off to a project coordinator once the contract’s signed, or worse, to a celebrity name who’s never seen your building — we built the studio specifically so that doesn’t happen. If Jeannice designed it, Jeannice is the one checking it got built right.

They overlap, but corporate interior design usually means office and workplace environments specifically — acoustic privacy, daylight, layouts built around how a team works day to day. Commercial interior design is the broader umbrella that also covers retail stores, restaurants, and other business spaces. When someone in Pasadena asks us about “commercial interior design,” we usually ask which one they actually mean first, since the priorities are pretty different between an office and a storefront.