About · Stone Society, Brooklyn NY

We just move the furniture a little.

That's the short version. The longer one is that we've spent years learning which rooms are broken on purpose and which ones only need the couch turned ninety degrees. Here's who's behind it, and how we actually think about a space.

Where this started

A studio that started in a hallway

Stone Society began because a friend asked for help with a rental she was convinced she hated — bad light, a weird galley kitchen, a living room that ate every piece of furniture. We didn't buy anything. We moved what she owned, swapped two lamps, and painted the hallway. She stopped apologizing for the place.

That's still the whole idea. Most rooms aren't short on things — they're short on a plan. So we built a studio around planning first: measure, draw, choose, then source only what's actually missing. It keeps budgets honest and keeps people from buying a third accent chair they don't need.

Today we work across Brooklyn and remotely for clients anywhere, one project at a time, invoiced when the plan lands in your inbox.

A Brooklyn apartment corner mid-restyle with measuring tape and paint swatches
What we actually believe

Three rules we don't break

Not a mission statement. Just the handful of things that decide every call we make on a room.

01

Keep what works

Your grandmother's table stays. The good rug stays. We design around what you already love before we spend a dollar — the fastest way to make a room feel like yours is to stop replacing it.

02

Plan before you buy

Every project is a to-scale plan first, shopping second. You see the full layout, palette, and list before a single box ships — so nothing arrives in the wrong size or the wrong beige.

03

One price, no creep

Flat project pricing, invoiced on completion. No hourly meter running in the background, no surprise design fee stapled to your sofa. You know the number before we start.

Overhead view of the Stone Society worktable with swatches, plans and samples
Inside the studio

Small on purpose

We kept the studio small so the person who draws your plan is the person who answers your email and, on in-home jobs, the person adjusting your art height on style day. Nothing gets handed down a chain.

It also means we only take on a few projects at a time — which is why booking a few weeks out is normal, and why we'd rather tell you we're full than rush your room.

Who you'll be emailing

The two behind the plans

No account managers, no outsourced renderings. The work is ours, start to delivered.

Portrait of Mara Stone, principal stylist

Mara Stone

Principal · plans & palette

Mara does the measuring, the floor plans, and the color work. She can tell you within a minute why a room feels off — nine times out of ten it's the lighting or the scale of the rug, and she'll have the swatch in her hand before you finish describing it.

Portrait of Dev Okafor, sourcing and style day lead

Dev Okafor

Sourcing & style day

Dev builds the shopping lists and runs style day. He's the one who knows which vintage shop on Atlantic has the right brass lamp this week and which online sofa actually ships in under eight weeks. If it has to look placed, not bought, that's his job.

Before your first call

What to send us to start

No mood-board homework. Four things from your phone and we can get moving.

Photos from the corners

Stand in each corner, shoot the opposite wall. We'd rather have eight honest phone photos than one staged one — we need to see the awkward bits.

Rough measurements

Wall lengths, ceiling height, window and door positions. A tape measure and a napkin sketch is plenty — we'll tidy it into a to-scale plan.

What's driving you nuts

A few lines is fine. The thing you trip over, the wall you hate, the chair nobody sits in. Honesty here saves a revision round later.

A rough budget

Even a loose range helps us source to reality. We work across price points — we just need to know which one we're shopping before we build the list.

Ready when you are

Send us the room

Tell us what's not working and we'll tell you honestly whether it's a plan, a palette, or just the sofa facing the wrong way. First look costs you nothing but a few phone photos.

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