Caroline
Case study

The Langley

Inspired by the feeling of a boutique hotel stay, The Langley invites residents to escape the ordinary in a home that feels warm, collected, and well traveled.

Location
Houston, TX
Type
Multifamily
Firm
Streetlights Residential
Year
2023–2025
The Langley fireplace lounge: a symmetrical cream-paneled room with a coffered ceiling and a glass bubble chandelier, a dark marble fireplace beneath a tall mirror, twin cream sofas facing across a wood coffee table, sage armchairs, walnut console tables with white lamps, and a patterned rug on herringbone floors

The Brief

For The Langley, our team set out to create a Houston community that feels like a place where residents can escape the ordinary. Warm, handcrafted, and intimate were the three guiding principles of our design. Building on the refined elegance of our Dallas project, The Galatyn, our goal was to give The Langley a younger edge, with collected, well-traveled layers and handcrafted details that feel personal rather than formal.

My Role

Design Documentation | Construction Drawings | FF&E Procurement

  • Heavily assisted in documentation of interior construction drawings, interior details, and material schedules for amenity spaces. Coordinated with multiple disciplines to ensure architectural details, amenity finishes, and 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.
  • Supported space planning and layout of FF&E. Partnered with the interior design director to design and select FF&E for amenity and model units. Facilitated FF&E procurement and coordination of custom furniture and rugs.

Process

Concept

Overall look and feel concept board for The Langley: a palette of greige, olive, navy, bronze, and copper beside inspiration images of a brick high-rise, a woman in a tweed blazer, lace dress, and fur coat, an abstract figurative painting, a textured woven fabric, embossed stationery, and a teal living room with a marble fireplace
Art concept board for The Langley: framed ephemera shadow boxes, a vivid painting of a city street from above, an antique mirrored landscape panel over a cream sofa, a sculptural stone head on stacked books in a library, white leather lace-up gloves, gilt-framed landscape paintings, and a tall abstract figurative painting
Rendered color floor plan of The Langley's level 1 amenity spaces, showing furnished lounges, a conference room, a fitness room, a large lobby lounge with a blue rug, offices, and patterned flooring throughout
Rendered color floor plan of The Langley's level 4 amenity spaces, a U-shaped layout with a brick-pattern corridor, lounges and a dining room with layered rugs, a card room, restrooms, elevator lobbies, and two stairs

Drawings

Floor finish plan of The Langley's level 1 amenity spaces, with finish tags for the lobby, lounge, mail room, offices, meeting room, fitness, and pet wash, plus a finish plan legend
Reflected ceiling plan of The Langley's level 1 amenity spaces, showing a coffered lobby ceiling, lighting, ceiling fans, and ceiling heights room by room, plus RCP general notes and a plan legend
Floor finish plan of The Langley's level 4 amenity spaces, with finish tags for the living rooms, community room, Langley lounge, private dining, corridors, and lobbies, plus a finish plan legend
Reflected ceiling plan of The Langley's level 4 amenity spaces, showing lighting, ceiling heights, and coffer outlines for the living rooms, community room, private dining, corridors, and lobbies, plus RCP general notes and a plan legend

The Result

The Langley entry: a cream-paneled lobby with a glass bubble chandelier, a curved walnut reception desk beneath three dark sculptural wall panels, a walnut arched opening flanked by lit display shelves of ceramics, and a lounge seating area on a patterned rug
Entry
The Langley private lounge: grasscloth walls and green velvet drapery, a glass-tiered chandelier, a curved camel velvet sofa with dark and sage pillows around a round pedestal table, a leather club chair, and a framed still life painting
Private Lounge
The Langley living room: deep teal grasscloth walls with painted panel molding, glass and brass candle chandeliers, a gold velvet sofa and gray armchairs around a cream coffee table, game tables with ginger jars, a large abstract painting, and tall windows with charcoal drapery
Living Room
The Langley cigar lounge: black lacquered paneling and coffered ceiling, lit built-in shelves of books and brass objects, a stone fireplace beneath a moody landscape painting and candle chandelier, cognac velvet chairs, and a vintage rug
Cigar Lounge
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