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Cravotta Interiors is an interior design studio in Austin, Texas, founded in 1996 by Mark Cravotta.

The studio serves residential and boutique hospitality clients nationwide. The portfolio spans whole-house renovations, new construction, penthouse residences, a Montana cabin, and original restaurant commissions, with projects in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, New York, and Montana. 

When a project needs a piece that does not exist, the studio designs it and has it built. Custom furniture, millwork, and lighting run through nearly every project, made by fabricators and artists the studio has worked with for years. 

Recognition includes the 2022 Residential Design Honor Award for Water's Edge, the Luxe Gold List in 2015, 2018, and 2021, fifteen Best of Houzz awards, selection for the inaugural Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas in 2020, and Cravotta Interiors is named in Architectural Digest's Best Austin Interior Designers list.

Our Standard

The rooms we’re most proud of are the ones where nothing announces itself. Where everything just belongs. Where you feel it.

That feeling is the product of a standard applied to every decision, in every project, for thirty years.

It lives in knowing the difference between right and almost right, and never settling for the latter. In the custom piece we design because nothing available is exactly what the project needs. In never walking away from a problem.

We’ve been building things since we can remember. Jewelry, ceramics, textiles woven on a loom. Construction, fabrication, a drapery workroom where every piece was made from scratch. We started building interiors the same way we built everything else: by understanding how things are actually made.

That background isn’t biography. It’s methodology. When you’ve built things yourself, you can see what was done with care and what was done fast. You can see where a maker’s presence shows and where it doesn’t. You can see the difference between a piece designed to impress and a piece designed to last.

The standard applies everywhere. To the material sourced from someone who crafts it themselves. To the custom piece built because the project demanded something that didn’t exist. To the relationship managed with the same attention as the rooms. To the work we did fifteen years ago that still holds.

The showrooms, the vendors, the resources are available to anyone in this industry. The difference is the eye behind the decisions, the standard applied to each one, and the willingness to keep going until it’s there. Mark is personally involved in every project. That’s not a management structure. It’s how the standard stays the standard.

The standard doesn’t change project to project. It doesn’t scale back when the budget is tight or the timeline is short. It’s either there or it isn’t.

You’ll feel it the moment you walk in. And you’ll still feel it fifteen years from now.

The Investment

Every material, every finish, every piece in your home is a decision. Thirty years of judgment behind those decisions is what creates a room you feel the moment you walk in.

Most of our clients are accomplished people who've built something significant. A business, a career, a family, often all three. They're sharp. They ask good questions. They didn't get where they are by spending carelessly.

Here's what we've learned over those thirty years: the conversation about investment is really a conversation about trust. Whether the money will be respected. Whether we'll be straight about what things cost and why. Whether the result will be worth what it took to get there.

Most people have experienced good design. Fewer have experienced what happens when this level of care is behind every decision in a project. The piece that still feels right after fifteen years. The room that gets better, not dated. That kind of work is a different investment.

Two chefs. Same ingredients, same kitchen, same dish. One is forgettable. The other stops you mid-conversation. The difference was never the ingredients. It was the palate, the instinct, the thousands of decisions made so well you never noticed them.

The same is true in our work. The materials, the makers, the custom pieces: these matter enormously. But the judgment that composes them into something extraordinary comes from decades of doing this and never settling for almost right.

Every project begins with listening. Not a questionnaire. A real conversation about how you live, what matters to you, what home actually means. That's where the design starts. And we keep listening throughout. Projects evolve. Perspectives shift. We stay calibrated to where you are, not just to where you were when we started.

What we commit to: transparency about costs before decisions are made, honesty about what a budget can and can't do, relentless focus on where investment makes the most difference, and no scope that expands without your knowledge.

The clients who come back, project after project, year after year, come back because the experience earned something no shortcut can manufacture: trust. Trust built through transparency about money, through taking responsibility when things go wrong, through delivering on promises over years. The space they live in now affects their mood, their relationships, their sense of home in ways they didn't know were possible. The value became self-evident. They feel it every day.

That's what thirty years of judgment actually produces. Not just beautiful rooms. A way of living that has to be experienced to be understood.

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Category:
Interior Designers
Business focus:
Residential & Commercial
Verified ArchiPro member since:
2026
Award winning professional:
4 awards

Awards

2022

Residential Design Honor Award

Residential Design Magazine

Water’s Edge

2022
AwardResidential Design Honor Award
OrganisationResidential Design Magazine
ProjectWater’s Edge
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2021

Gold List

Luxe

2021
AwardGold List
OrganisationLuxe
2018

Gold List

Luxe

2018
AwardGold List
OrganisationLuxe
2015

Gold List

Luxe

2015
AwardGold List
OrganisationLuxe

Meet the Team

Mark Cravotta

Mark Cravotta

Founder & Creative Director

Amy Ulmer

Amy Ulmer

Design Team Director, RID, LEED GA

Ron Scherwin

Ron Scherwin

Operations and Accounting Manager

Megan Quintanilla

Junior Designer

Leslie Ford

Junior Designer

Melissa Ferreyro-Santana

Design Assistant