About
J. Peterson Design is run by sisters. Jennifer Peterson founded the studio in 2008 and leads its Chicago and Southwest Michigan work; Jill Kearns leads the Atlanta office. Both are formally trained interior designers, and both stay on your project from the first conversation to the day the last piece is placed.
Working as sisters is the reason the studio runs the way it does. There is one shared standard rather than a house style handed down to junior staff, and every decision gets a second qualified opinion before it reaches you — candidly, and long before anything is ordered or built.
The approach itself is holistic and deliberately unhurried: how a space functions day to day comes first, and the finishes follow from it. The aim is rooms that still read well in a decade rather than ones that date with the season. Cabinetry is produced in partnership with Das Holz Haus.
Studio markets
Chicago, IL · Atlanta, GA · South Haven, MI
Why it matters
Both sisters are credentialed interior designers. You get two trained eyes on the plan, the selections and the site — not a principal who presents and a junior who executes.
Chicago, Southwest Michigan and Atlanta are served by the same studio and the same standard, because the people running them grew up with the same one.
Sisters tell each other the truth about a decision before a client ever sees it. Ideas get pressure-tested in-house, which is why very little gets walked back later.
Our team
Different training, different cities, the same standard — and enough shared history to disagree productively.
Founder, Principal Designer
The sister who started it. Jennifer founded the studio in 2008 and leads its Chicago and Southwest Michigan work. A background in kitchen and bath design shapes how every project begins: with how a room is actually used, before anything is chosen for it.
Designer — Atlanta
The sister who took it south. Jill leads the studio's Atlanta office, bringing fifteen years of residential practice and a calm, methodical approach — plus a habit of catching the detail that would otherwise have gone wrong on site.
Every project gets both sisters — two trained eyes from the first conversation through to the last piece placed.
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