Interior + Experience + Web Case Study · Cheesman Park, Denver
Denver Coliving
A seven-room coliving home, designed room by room and shared since 2016 — then given a calm, editorial website. Three disciplines, one project.
A seven-room coliving home, designed room by room and shared since 2016 — then given a calm, editorial website. Three disciplines, one project.
A historic Denver home, reimagined room by room — warm, private, and full of natural light. Quality beds, real workspaces, storage, and individual locks, so each space genuinely feels like the resident's own.
Every guideline exists because of what it creates — a calm, private, comfortable atmosphere that the right person finds genuinely refreshing. The experience is designed as deliberately as the interiors.
Keeps the energy calm, clear, and consistent for everyone living here.
Cannabis welcome on the covered veranda — a dedicated space to unwind.
The house is for residents — a space that stays consistently peaceful and their own.
10pm–7am. Residents value predictable quiet time.
"Denver Coliving was born from a desire to reimagine what shared living can feel like — warm, private, calm, and genuinely well-designed." Compatible housemates, attentive management, and clear expectations turn a shared house into a real home — the experience layer that interior design alone can't deliver.
denvercoliving.com is the digital front door — and I designed it too. The same warm, editorial, natural-light aesthetic carries from the rooms to the screen: an informational, responsive site that shows the right person what living here is like before they ever visit.
Over the years, denvercoliving.com drew people from across the country who wanted their own shared homes to work better. Those conversations inspired USA Coliving Finder.
Ten years of care — from the design of each room to the way the house works day to day. The routines exist for consistency: so everyone knows what to expect, the house stays clean, and the vibe is protected.
Professional cleaning Mon/Wed/Fri keeps the home consistently clean — chore-free for everyone who lives here.
One monthly payment covers room, utilities, WiFi, laundry, and cleaning — predictable, with no surprises.
Compatible people, welcomed with clear expectations — the basis of a house people stay in.
30-day minimum, 30-day notice — protects the house culture and gives everyone flexibility.
Snow removal and upkeep handled so common spaces stay clean, organized, and ready.
House guidelines, the welcome, and routines documented so the home works the same for everyone, every time.
Cheesman Park, Denver Botanic Gardens, Capitol Hill cafes, and Cherry Creek — all within minutes, on foot or by bike. Location is part of the experience design: a home that lets residents live, work, and explore the city on foot or by bike.
The room, the house rules, and the website all shape the same thing: how it feels to live here. Designing across all three — instead of treating them as separate jobs — is what makes the whole feel coherent.
Living with my own decisions for ten years is the ultimate user test. Every guideline and routine survived because it actually works — not because it looked good in a deck.
The experience of living here — and the conversations it started — inspired USA Coliving Finder. Good design at small scale is the best research for designing at large scale.
Denver Coliving is the experience behind USA Coliving Finder — the home that taught me what shared living feels like when it's designed well.
