When Matt and Meg purchased their first home last year, they loved the visual interest found on the first floor but felt let down by the more austere bedrooms, which didn’t have the same details and character. The couple turned to artificial intelligence to help them imagine something different and then enlisted H.J. Holtz & Son to bring their vision to life.
“We didn’t have an unlimited budget, but we really wanted to make the home ours,” Meg says.
Meg uploaded pictures of the home’s interior to an AI program and “played around” with ideas she and Matt contemplated, like carpentry features, paint color, light fixtures, and furniture placement. “We were able to make sure everything would fit and look the way we wanted,” she says. “What I came up with wasn’t perfect by any means, but it gave us a general sense [of the finished room]. The process was very affirming that what I envisioned would look okay.”
With a plan in mind, the couple found H.J. Holtz & Son – “probably via AI,” Meg laughs. “We looked for a highly rated local business that offers painting, wallpapering, and carpentry,” she says. “Holtz was one of the first that popped up. We liked that the company had been in business for a long time and can offer all those services at once.”
That’s just what happened. Holtz team members worked in the family’s three occupied bedrooms, reflecting the couple’s daughters’ personalities in their rooms and transforming the primary bedroom into a relaxing retreat.
“We wanted to make each of our children’s rooms feel safe and special,” Meg says. In one bedroom, the carpentry team added tongue-and groove wall panels with a scalloped edge chair rail. That room also features Benjamin Moore New Born’s Eyes paint and Green Planet x Jill Delavan wallpaper. The other daughter’s bedroom now includes picture molding, Laura Ashley wallpaper, and Benjamin Moore’s Strawberry Freeze paint. Crown molding finishes both rooms.
For the primary bedroom – the couple’s oasis – the Holtz team called in electrical partners to replace sconces and an overhead light, then added crown and picture molding before painting the room Benjamin Moore Hunter Green. “The primary bedroom is really tall,” Meg says. “The picture molding makes it feel less cavernous.”
In a final touch, the couple had Holtz paint the dining room Benjamin Moore Washington Blue and add a medallion around the ceiling light. The team also refinished the home’s double front doors.
Meg and Matt are delighted with the changes.
“We plan to be here for a long time,” she says. “We wanted high-quality workmanship from a business that could manage all of the things we wanted to be done. Their craftsmanship is amazing, and we loved that it’s all collated.”
