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Reider + Co 2024 Holiday Gift Guide
Each year, the R+Co team curates a collection of our favorite finds—unique, thoughtful, and stylish gifts that help celebrate the holiday spirit. We hope you find something perfect for your loved ones and maybe even for yourself!
Reider + Co is named Best of Boston Home® 2025 – Best Interior Designer, Contemporary
We are honored to be awarded Boston Home’s Best of Boston Home® 2025 – Best Interior Designer, Contemporary. Thank you so much to Boston Home magazine and editor Jaci Conry for the recognition. We are grateful to our incredible clients and industry partners who supported us this past year.
What’s Inspiring Us: A Round-up of Inspos from a Month of Travel
Our latest Journal is filled with ideas inspired by stories, culture, and timeless design gathered from recent travels. These travels have reinforced how designs that span centuries can still feel fresh and relevant—and how contemporary pieces from renowned brands can blend seamlessly with classics from the past.
Mastering Remote Projects: Our Approach to Working Beyond Boston
Through our decades of experience, we've learned that a clear, well-defined design process is crucial to the success of every project—and it’s even more essential when working remotely. It helps build a trust that is extremely important when navigating through the challenges unique to designing a project beyond Boston.
8 Things to Consider When Designing an Epic Kids' Bedroom
Back-to-school season has us thinking a lot about our kids and how to make their days feel more balanced and joyful. Designing a kid's bedroom can be a wonderful experience, but it requires finding that sweet spot between your own design preferences and your child's personality to create a space that is equal parts fun and functional.
Elevating Spaces with Destination-Inspired Design
When returning home from an epic vacation, if you’re like us, you may find yourself reminiscing and trying to relive those same moments and experiences in your everyday life. This includes elevating your living space to fold in colors, textures, patterns, and unique cultural characteristics that you felt inspired by through your travels near and far. If you’re interested in getting that destination-inspired design in your home, keep reading for our curated list of design secrets to transform your space.
Four US Destinations Redefining the Art of Living Well
From the Atlantic to the Rockies, countless cities across our country exemplify and help redefine the art of living well. These experiences provide an escape and a refreshing dose of inspiration for our team and work. This month’s journal explores some of our favorite “living well” U.S. destinations, from hidden gems to luxurious havens.
Behind the Design: Install Day at our Multigenerational Beach House Project
After many months in the making, with an incredible team onsite, we are so excited to see our design ideas come to life at our 10,000 sq. ft. coastal home project. The property features an innovative, locally focused design that perfectly fulfills the homeowner’s goal of being both functional and buoyantly refined. Keep reading as Rachel and Kristina take you behind the design of our multigenerational beach house project.
Reider + Co’s Summer Travel Guide
Summer is upon us, and while every season in New England has its own sense of excitement, those warm weather vibes always lift our spirits the most. In this month’s journal, we’re leaning into the season with a curated list of our favorite places to stay and dine across the region.
6 Fashion Trends That Inspire Our Work
This month, we’re embracing the latest in fashion and its influence on interior design. From bold colors and patterns to sophisticated metallics, keep reading for six fashion trends we can’t get enough of and how they’ve inspired our design projects.
Rachel’s Big Sky Recap
Scrolling through our Instagram feed over the past few months has undoubtedly highlighted Big Sky, Montana's growing allure as a top ski destination. With so much natural and pristine beauty, it’s unsurprising that it made Travel + Leisure’s 50 Best Places to Travel in 2024. Fresh off the slopes, Rachel is sharing her favorite things to do in Big Sky to inspire your next adventure in this northern Rockies paradise.
The 5 Key Elements of Modern Coastal Home Design
We’ve had a lot of experience when it comes to designing a modern coastal home. From a cozy, art-filled family retreat in Cohasset to a modern beach oasis on the shores of Truro to our soon-to-be-revealed expansive multigenerational beach house in Narragansett, coastal design has very much been at the forefront of our work. In this month’s journal, we’ve gathered our years of lessons learned and insights to provide five key elements of this design aesthetic.
2024 Best of Luxury Design Award
We are absolutely thrilled to be recognized as a 2024 recipient of the Best of Luxury Design Award for Hospitality Design - what an honor to have a spotlight on us!
Reider + Co Sets Its Sights on the Loon Mountain Region
At the close of 2023, we let you in on an exciting new opportunity in the Loon Mountain region. Today, with our project manager, Jess’s help, we are sharing more about our collaboration with 21 Century Mountainside Reality as their luxury interior design referral partner in Lincoln, New Hampshire, home to Loon Mountain.
Our 2023 Look Back
2023 went by in a flash, and with it, so many incredible changes and projects were revealed here at Reider + Co. From a rebrand to a cozy island boutique hotel, we have a lot to look back on. Our first Journal of 2024 features a rundown of our favorite highlights of 2023.
A Message of Gratitude
As another incredible year winds down, it’s hard not to reflect on it all with tremendous gratitude — for our clients, partners, and my incredibly talented team.
Reider + Co’s 2023 Holiday Gift Guide
It’s that time of the year again to celebrate the winter holidays, reconnecting and exchanging gifts with family and friends. And we’ve got your back once again with our annual Reider + Co Holiday Gift Guide!
A Tale of 2 Condos: Emphasizing Form, Function and Innovation in Design
It’s not every day that we get asked to work with two completely different clients with the same design footprint. But that was precisely the case when two new residents of Back Bay’s prestigious The Claredon property needed our help to design their 1,500 sq. ft. urban space just one floor apart. Our Tale of 2 Condos is a great example of how form and function can mean very different things to different clients. The result is features more in tune with their lifestyles and emotions connected to a sense of place.
5 One-of-a-Kind Reider + Co Design Pieces (and the Partners who Helped Bring Them to Life)
Innovation is at the heart of what we do and how we transform a traditional and expected design into one-of-a-kind elements that inspire connections and unique experiences. Whether it’s a jaw-dropping statement lighting piece or a sofa shaped to fit a challenging space, every piece is designed and fabricated to ensure the space is both original and functional. In this month’s Journal, we’re rounding up some of our favorite custom-made design elements.
Favorite Travel Destinations and How They've Inspired Our Work
When Rachel set out on a trip to Bali with her mother, she had no idea how powerful the impact would be on her life, career, and design perspective. Taking a page from Rachel’s love of travel, we’re sharing some of all of our favorite travel destinations and how they’ve inspired the work we do.