Case study

The Galatyn

Aiming to embody soft elegance and luxury, The Galatyn was created to stand out amongst Dallas’s high-end multifamily spaces.

Location: Dallas, TX
Type: Luxury Multifamily
Firm: Streetlights Residential
Year: 2023–2025

The Galatyn lobby: a cream marble floor inlaid with black banding leads through a series of white plaster arches, beneath a tiered glass chandelier, with a round dark pedestal table of white hydrangeas, a walnut-paneled onyx reception desk, and arched iron-and-glass entry doors

The Brief

For The Galatyn, a sister project to Streetlights’ earlier development, The McKenzie, our team set out to create something more elevated than even our standard luxury communities. Refined, layered, and stately were the three guiding principles of our design. Our goal while selecting architectural finishes and furniture was to bring a classic, collected richness that would appeal to Highland Park’s established residents, with a younger, refreshed edge.

My Role

Design Documentation | Construction Drawings | FF&E Procurement

Led documentation of interior construction drawings, interior details, and material schedules for amenity spaces. Coordinated with multiple disciplines to ensure architectural details, extensive wall moldings, and intricate flooring patterns were executed to match design intent.
Worked alongside the interior design director to select finishes and document design intent through preliminary 3D modeling and rendering. Coordinated with consultants for final 3D renderings and virtual tours of the space.
Led space planning and layout of FF&E. Produced preliminary FF&E selections for amenity and model units. Assisted in FF&E procurement and coordination of custom furniture.

Process

Concept

Rendered color furniture plan of The Galatyn amenity level, showing furnished lounges, dining, and a checkerboard-floored room around a central gallery corridor, beside a pool deck with lounge chairs and a pool with a medallion inlay

Sunroom materials board for The Galatyn: two paneled wall elevations and a 3D massing view with a crystal chandelier and arched windows, beside sage wall and cream trim paint swatches, a botanical ceiling wallpaper, an iron chandelier, and green onyx and herringbone oak flooring samples

Club lounge and restrooms materials board for The Galatyn: a line drawing and a 3D view of the lounge with arched windows, a floor plan of the lounge and restrooms, and samples of marble wall and counter stone, hexagon floor tile, cream wall paint, millwork, brass pendants, sconces, door pulls, and a faucet, with a gold console table

Drawings

Annotated level one floor plan of The Galatyn's amenity spaces, with labeled rooms including the entry, gallery, sunroom, library, study lounge, concierge station, fitness room, sauna, and club lounge, plus general notes and an annotation legend

Reflected ceiling plan of The Galatyn's level one amenity spaces, showing coffered ceilings, chandeliers, can lights, and ceiling fans in the entry, gallery, sunroom, library, study lounge, fitness room, and club lounge, plus general notes and a light fixture legend

Floor finish plan of The Galatyn's level one amenity spaces, showing tile, wood, and checkerboard flooring room by room, with an enlarged floor finish detail and a finish plan legend

Enlarged leasing plans and elevations for The Galatyn: two perspective drawings of the concierge desk in front of a decorative metal screen and the arched gallery beyond, elevations of the concierge desk and entry walls, and an enlarged ceiling plan and floor plan of the leasing area

The Result

The Galatyn sunroom: sage-paneled walls beneath a lit coffered ceiling, a tall arched window with gray velvet drapery, a large figurative painting above a cream sideboard, a long sofa, sage armchairs, and a wood coffee table on a swirling patterned rug — Sunroom

The Galatyn garden room: a cream-paneled kitchen with glass-front cabinets, a brass-trimmed range hood over a red-veined marble backsplash, three mercury glass pendants above a marble island with cane-back stools, and two walnut dining tables with olive velvet chairs — Garden Room

The Galatyn library: deep charcoal paneled walls with built-in bookshelves and gilt-framed paintings, a leather-and-brass tiered chandelier, a marble fireplace flanked by statues, and an octagonal game table surrounded by upholstered barrel chairs — Library

The Galatyn study: a marble-topped table with leather-backed chairs beneath two antiqued glass globe pendants, a black-and-gold chinoiserie screen on the wall, sage paneling, and a fluted-glass arched partition opening to a lounge with a brass bar cart — Study

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