A home,
in the first
person.
Most interior design begins with a style. We begin with a self: your letters, your light, your grandmother's chair, and design outward from there.
We begin with a self, not a style: your letters, your light, your grandmother's chair.
A home is not a style. A home is a self, full of a particular person's books, weather and patience.
A quiet archive.
The same room, told differently.
Four ways to work together.
Styled Room
A single day of considered styling: rugs, art, textiles, and the small decor that lifts a room.
Full-Service Design
Concept to install, held by us. Trades, procurement, styling and the reveal.
E-Design Packages
Three tiers, delivered as a digital book. You measure; we plan and specify.
Renovation Management
We hold the drawings, the trades and the calendar so you don't have to.
I design rooms to a sentence, the one that begins I am.
SOU began in Portuguese. Sou is the first person of ser, I am: the verb you use not for what you do, but for who you are. It seemed like the only honest place to start a home.
The practice is deliberately small. Cacau Martins is on every project, from the first walk-through to the last cushion, in person across New Jersey and remotely beyond it.
Read the founder's storyTell us about your
home and goals.
A few questions about the home and the people in it. We read every inquiry ourselves and reply within two business days, either way.
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One image, once a week.