Interior + Experience + Web Case Study · Cheesman Park, Denver
Denver Coliving
A seven-room coliving home, designed room by room and run for nearly a decade — then given a calm, editorial website. Three disciplines, one home.
A seven-room coliving home, designed room by room and run for nearly a decade — then given a calm, editorial website. Three disciplines, one home.
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. Everyone here works and values genuine rest.
"Denver Coliving was born from a desire to reimagine what shared living can feel like — warm, private, calm, and genuinely well-designed." Screened, compatible housemates, a responsive host, and clear guidelines 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: a responsive marketing site that makes the right resident feel at home before they ever visit.
This site is the direct predecessor to USA Coliving Finder — the proof that trust-first design converts, scaled from one home into a nationwide marketplace.
Ten years of care — from the design of each room to the way the house runs day to day. The systems are as designed as the spaces: documented, repeatable, and quietly invisible to residents.
A professional Mon/Wed/Fri cleaning system keeps the home consistently show-ready — chore-free for residents.
One monthly payment covers room, utilities, WiFi, laundry, and cleaning — predictable for residents, premium for the host.
Compatible housemates, screened and onboarded with clear guidelines — the basis for low turnover.
30-day minimum, 30-day notice — flexibility that protects both the resident and the house culture.
Snow removal and upkeep handled so common spaces stay clean, organized, and ready.
House rules, welcome process, and SOPs documented so the home runs reliably — now packaged as consulting.
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 without a car.
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 system survived because it actually works — not because it looked good in a deck.
The systems, brand, and trust model proven here scaled directly into USA Coliving Finder. Good design at small scale is the best research for designing at large scale.
Denver Coliving is the proof-of-concept behind USA Coliving Finder — and the basis for coliving consulting, design, and the operations playbook.
