Melanie Gowen Design + Real Estate

Melanie Gowen Design is an interior design, property development, and lifestyle branding firm. The firm strategically blends architecture and interior design, brand marketing, and property development to create highly individualized environments clients will experience and remember. Special areas include historic preservation or sympathetic design, adaptive reuse projects, strategic planning, community building, and sustainability. Melanie works with discerning, quality-conscious clients who seek assistance in designing and developing a primary residence or vacation home around their unique lifestyle. Design often extends to include boat and yacht interiors, farm and garden houses, and rental property development. On the commercial side, Melanie works with merchants, artisans, and organizations to design uniquely branded retail or restaurant environments, workplace or office, or institutional setting. Melanie Gowen Design is pioneering customized solutions in branded lifestyle real estate = branding + interior design + strategy for property development. Taking new ideas from concept to completion, Melanie creates lifestyle identity design with marketing that will capture the imagination of clients or buyers. Melanie effectively collaborates with realtors, builders and architects, and clients by driving cohesion and delivering a seamless experience and dynamo end result. She has a practice focusing on brand strategy and structuring creative partnerships. This often means designing mechanisms for bringing people and messages together into memorable experiences. Melanie is adept at making recommendations for partner decisions, growth categories, and analyzing marketing gaps to create compelling, multi-dimensional visions for a brand or client.