ABOUT

A well-designed home should invite you in and refuse to let you go — because a home is where you feel safe enough to stay, to gather the people you love, to make the memories that outlast the moment.

THE WORK BEGINS WITH A CONVICTION:

Ashton James Interiors is a boutique interior design studio based in Salt Lake City, known for spaces that are warm, moody and collected — European-inflected with a masculine edge. Homes that are layered and lived in, a reflection of the person inside them. Not one signature style, but a signature approach — because the goal was never luxury for luxury's sake. It's identity. Full-home residential design from concept through installation, in close collaboration with the builders and trades who bring the work to life. Hundreds of decisions, most of them invisible once the work is done — layouts that solve how you actually move through a house, finishes built to hold up to real life. Ready to stop settling for almost? It starts with knowing who's building it with you.

let’s build something distinctly yours.

MEET

LAUREN

Twenty years running client relationships in corporate business development taught me how to read what people actually need, keep a dozen moving pieces on schedule and follow through on the small promises as carefully as the big ones — direct, dependable, always moving the work forward. A decade working with metal and stone gave me an eye for materials and the tension between them: old next to new, refined against raw, weight and scale. And the conviction that everything in a room should earn its place.

Interior design is where both are required at once: clarity on what someone needs and building it well. The drive to execute and the need to create have always lived in the same person. Most people find one or the other. I never learned how to choose between them, so you won't have to either.

A room that holds something — memory, weight, the feeling of a life actually lived in it. That’s what we’re building.

elevated environments

three services that meet you where you are

full-scope FURNISHINGS

Whether it follows a renovation or stands entirely on its own, it ends the same way: a home that is distinctly yours.
We start with how you actually live in the space. We thoughtfully build the layer where it becomes home — layout, materials, furniture, art — until it reads as one story. Everything is sourced through trade vendors most homeowners can't access directly, ordered, tracked and delivered without you managing a single invoice.
renovation & rEFRESHES

For homes asking for more. Renovation work starts with what's already there: the bones, the architectural detail worth keeping, the parts of the house that got it right the first time. We look at every floor plan the same way — what needs to change so the house actually works and what should be left alone because it's already good. From concept through installation, we lead the design: space planning, materials, fixtures and technical decisions your contractor needs to build from. They lead the construction. We lead everything the eye and the day-to-day experience of the house depend on.
It's the house you meant to have all along, minus the chaos of getting there.
New cONSTRuCTION

Building from the ground up means the design decisions start long before there's a house to put anything in. We come in as part of the team — alongside your architect, builder and general contractor — leading material direction, finishes and the interior decisions that shape how the house actually feels to live in, while they lead everything structural.

OUR DESIGN PROCESS

Discovery starts with a detailed questionnaire and a conversation in your home, where we can physically walk the space, begin to understand your lifestyle, and see how the house needs to function for optimal flow.
Everyone has a version of their home they've been carrying around. The way it should feel walking in, the room that's never worked, the thing you'd change first if someone handed you the money. This is where all of that finally gets said out loud.
Then the house itself. What's worth protecting, what's fighting you, which rooms you avoid without knowing why. Most houses are telling you something before anyone touches them.
Money comes up here too and plainly. What your number actually reaches — which materials, which level of finish, what's realistic and what isn't at that range. Where it's worth stretching and where it isn't. Most people have never been told that part honestly, and it's the difference between a project that holds together and one that runs out of room halfway through.
A point of view for your home gets established first — the palette, the materials, the way rooms relate to each other and to the way you move through them.
Then it becomes tangible. Concept boards and material stories: paint, stone, fabric, wood, metal, laid out so you can see the whole house speaking one language before a single thing is ordered.
From there it's sourcing. Furniture, lighting, rugs, art — every piece chosen specifically, presented within the budget already agreed to,.
For renovations, the same rigor on the design: paint and stain, hardware, millwork, tile, countertops, plumbing. All of it documented in a spec book detailed enough for your contractor to bid from.
Once you give the go-ahead, everything gets ordered and set into motion — and then it's tracked, piece by piece, all the way to delivery, so you're never left wondering where something stands. That kind of follow-through is quiet on purpose; the goal is that you never have to think about logistics at all.
It's also where a lot of the real value of working together shows up, even though it's easy to overlook: every invoice, every delay, every detail managed for you, start to finish.
Once construction starts, this is where I stay close to it on your behalf — regular check-ins with your contractor and trades, so you're not the one chasing updates or wondering if things are still on track. Schedule, budget, and design all get watched at once, together, not as three separate things to worry about.
The goal is that construction stays in the background of your life, not the center of it.
By now, you've waited months for a room you've only seen in samples and sketches — and spent real money trusting it would all add up to something worth the wait. This is the day that trust gets paid back. Every mover, every finishing detail, every last adjustment happens before you walk in, so there's nothing left unfinished for you to notice.
You enter into the room you've been picturing the whole time — finished, and distinctly yours.