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Küster Design

We start by uncovering how you actually live, what you're drawn to, Step out of the box. Step into Küster.

We specialize in discovery-led design for clients who want a result that feels unmistakably theirs — not a trend, not a house style, not something they could have ordered from a catalog. At Küster Design, we believe interior design is more than just the color on your walls. It is a statement about your style, an extension of your brand, and your commitment to excellence. About
Küster Design specializes in classical and contemporary interior design for residential and small commercial clients. We're a full service design firm – offering interior design, customer experience consulting, and office relocation with an eco-friendly bent headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, with regional offices in Wisconsin.

10/30/2026

Most owners think of arrival as the front door. For a guest, it usually starts well before that.

A property we visited has a narrow, tree-lined drive leading in — nothing elaborate, just a road that curves enough and sits under enough canopy that the outside world falls away before a guest has even parked.

Easy to take for granted because it costs nothing and requires no decisions — it was already there. But the arrival experience isn't a single moment at the threshold. It's a sequence, and for a guest arriving by car, it starts at the turn off the main road.

Worth walking your own approach once, start to finish, as a guest would.

10/29/2026

It's been a good week Miami!

10/29/2026

10/28/2026

Not every design gap is a flaw. Some are just two honest stories told in the same building, and they don't agree with each other.

A guest room we walked through recently is well-built and clearly well cared for. But the furniture is heavy, dark-stained wood — solid and formal, more traditional lodge than anything else. The property around it is marketed as a coastal retreat: light, breezy, understated.

A guest who booked based on the website isn't wrong to feel a little disoriented. The room isn't badly designed — it's telling a different story than the one that got the guest to book.

A brand-alignment problem, not a taste problem.

10/27/2026

I measured the door height. The door width. The length of both custom sofas.

I did not measure the ceiling at the 90° turn on the stair landing.

That's how my episode of Top Floor with Susan Barry earned its title: "Couch Cutting Catastrophe." (Yes, we cut them apart and bolted them back together, in the basement, in place.)

The lesson stuck: you can nail every measurement on the drawing and still get it wrong, because the gap is never where you think to look for it.

Independent inns have the same problem. There's often a gap between what the website promises and what a guest feels walking through the door, and owners rarely see it, because they look at their property through love and familiarity.

Listen here: https://vist.ly/5q6qr

Thank you, Susan Barry and Top Floor with Susan Barry, for a great conversation.

10/26/2026

This week we're looking at what materials communicate before a guest reads a single word of marketing — starting with wood tone.

A property we visited sits right on the water, the kind of setting that sells itself on 'quiet luxury by the lake.' Walk inside, though, and the furniture tells a different story: dark, heavy, mahogany-toned pieces that read more hunting lodge than lake house.

Neither look is wrong on its own. But a property positioned around light, water, and air is working against itself with furniture that visually argues for the opposite. Guests absorb that mismatch before they could ever articulate it.

The material is doing brand work whether anyone's thinking of it that way or not.

10/26/2026

Tomorrow I ride to the Top Floor with Susan Barry.

Fair warning: the episode is named after the worst measurement I ever missed. Two custom sofas, one basement lounge, and a stair landing I never thought to check.

More tomorrow.

10/23/2026

Most of this week's posts are about frictions you'd only catch if you were looking closely. This one, you'd catch from across the room.

This switch plate has a scorched, melted patch around one of its controls — the kind of thing that stops a guest mid-step. It might be entirely safe and fully inspected. It doesn't matter — it looks like it caught fire, and a guest has no way to know the difference.

Guests don't audit your maintenance log. They read the room in front of them, and a visibly damaged fixture reads as neglect even when the actual issue was fixed months ago.

A replacement switch plate is one of the cheapest, highest-leverage fixes in this whole series.

10/22/2026

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Land O' Lakes, WI
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