Hi, I’m Erin. I think about homes a little differently.
Not because I have better taste than anyone else — but because of where I spent the first twenty years of my career.
For more than twenty years, I worked in User Experience (UX) — studying how people interact with products, where things break down for them, and how good design makes complicated stuff easier to use.
UX isn’t really about how something looks. It’s about whether it works for the person using it. A beautiful product that confuses people, or makes them work harder than they should have to, isn’t a successful product — no matter how nice it looks in a screenshot.
At some point, I started noticing the same thing was true about homes.
People move through their homes every day. They cook in them, work in them, store things in them, raise families in them. A beautiful kitchen that doesn’t work for how a family actually cooks isn’t a successful renovation. A gorgeous room that creates more maintenance, more confusion, or more cost than it’s worth isn’t necessarily a win, either.
Homes are experiences too. And the same question that good UX starts with turned out to be exactly the right question for renovation and design: what does the person actually need this to do?
That’s the lens LBVXP brings to renovation planning, interior design, and getting a home ready to sell — along with real renovation management, real estate, and project experience along the way. Not “what’s trendy right now,” but “what actually needs to happen here, and in what order.”
In practice, that means looking at every project through six lenses: function, the people using the space, design, project reality, cost, and decision-making — not just “what’s pretty.”
See how that shows up in the work →Pretty isn’t the same as right.
A lot of renovations look good on the surface without really solving the problem they were supposed to solve. That’s usually where budget drift starts — spending on the wrong thing while missing what would have actually made the biggest difference.
Good decisions early on tend to prevent most of that. Not perfect decisions — just clearer ones.
- More clarity before scope grows out of control
- More discipline about what a space actually needs
- More confidence about what to prioritize and what to skip
- Fewer surprises once construction actually starts
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