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Thoughtful Design. Comprehensive Project Management. Beautiful Results.

METRO ATLANTA’S Expert Remodeling and Custom Home Design Team

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Design That Accounts for Your Home, Your Budget, and Your Timeline

You're not just remodeling a kitchen or reworking your home's floor plan. You're planning where your family eats on weeknights, where everyone crowds in at Thanksgiving, and where you'll spend game nights. That deserves more than a sketch and a handshake.

Delano Designs is led by Ryan Delano, who takes your project from first conversation through final walkthrough. He designs the space, documents it completely, coordinates your permits, selects your finishes, and helps you hire the right builder at the right price. One person, start to finish.

We're not your general contractor. You hire your builder directly, so we're free to represent one interest: yours.

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Design & Permit-Ready Plans

Your remodel, planned completely on paper. We document your home as it exists, design the new layout, and produce the full drawing set your contractor prices and builds from. It's the foundation of nearly every project we take on. 

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Permit Package

Permit filing and municipal coordination for your jurisdiction. We prepare the submittal documents, file them, respond to plan-review comments, and see it through to an issued permit. Atlanta, Decatur, Brookhaven, Sandy Springs, Chamblee, Dunwoody, and unincorporated DeKalb each run their own process. 

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Kitchen Remodeling Design

Layout and workflow planning, cabinetry and storage design, appliance and ventilation planning, lighting and electrical coordination, and countertop, backsplash, and fixture selection, detailed in millwork drawings. 

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Bathroom Remodeling Design

Space planning and fixture layouts, shower and tub design, tile layouts, vanity and storage design, and waterproofing and constructability coordination that determine whether a bathroom holds up. 

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Basement Remodeling Design

Unfinished square footage turned into rec rooms, guest suites, or full in-law arrangements. We plan around the mechanical systems, ceiling heights, and egress requirements that shape what's possible down there. 

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Exterior Remodeling Design

Additions, exterior elevations and massing studies, porch and deck planning, window and door coordination, and roofing, siding, and trim selections. Context-sensitive work for homes with architecture worth matching. 

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Whole Home Remodeling Design

Reworking how an entire house functions, not just one room. We plan the circulation, resolve the structural questions, sequence the phases, and document all of it so a large project can be priced and built without improvising. 

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Custom Home Design

Residential design and construction documentation for building from the ground up. We develop the plans and produce the full document set, then coordinate the engineers, surveyors, and civil work your site requires. 

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Design Jumpstart

A visit to your home and the best first step for most projects. We walk the space with you, document your priorities, identify the layout and feasibility issues that will shape everything downstream, and talk honestly about what the project will require. The fee credits toward full-service design if you continue. 

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Construction Administration & Bid Leveling

This is why many clients call us. We issue a consistent scope for pricing, compare the bids side by side, explain what the differences actually mean, and negotiate on your behalf. Then we stay on through construction for RFIs, field conditions, site observations, inspections, material procurement, and closeout. 

Our Process

1 | CONNECT
We begin with a free fit call to talk through your home, your timeline, and the investment you have in mind. If your project is a match, we'll schedule a Design Jumpstart: a paid working visit where we walk the space with you, document your priorities, and surface the feasibility questions early. 
2 | DESIGN & DOCUMENT
We measure your home as it actually exists, then develop the layout and design with you. Once it's right, we produce the complete construction document set, coordinate any engineers or surveyors your project needs, and manage the permit filing with your jurisdiction from submittal through approval. 
3 | PRICING & BUILD
Your drawings go out for contractor pricing, and we compare the bids side by side and explain what the differences mean. We'll negotiate on your behalf and help you choose. Then we stay on through construction, answering questions from the field and keeping you updated until the punch list is closed. 

Where We Work

We design remodels throughout metro Atlanta, with a concentration in intown neighborhoods where the homes have real architectural character and owners are investing to stay rather than move. Older housing stock takes more planning, and that's the work we're built for. If your home is outside the areas below, reach out anyway and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit. 

Our Service Area

  • Chastain Park
  • Decatur
  • Druid Hills
  • Dunwoody
  • Inman Park

Hear From Your Neighbors

Ryan Delano has an incredible eye for design. Every project by Delano Designs is thoughtfully curated, stylish, and polished from start to finish. His professionalism and attention to detail truly set him apart. You can instantly recognize his work by how seamlessly it blends creativity with function. Highly recommend!

Nini L.

I had the pleasure of working with Ryan at Delano Designs, and I can't say enough about the exceptional experience. Ryan's phenomenal design work and thoughtful floor plans truly brought my vision to life. From the start, Ryan's ability to understand my ideas and translate them into creative and practical layouts for my basement was impressive. The process was not only efficient and well-organized but also incredibly inspiring. Ryan's expertise made it easy to explore new possibilities I hadn't even considered. I highly recommend Delano Designs for anyone looking to turn their space into something special!

Brett A.

Great experience working with a talented designer and orchestrator of the project . Came up with ideas / plans that not only turned out beautifully but also added value to the property- definitely recommend him and will call again as he made it effortless for me .

Henry

Ryan not only exceeded expectations but completely pulled off the unimaginable when designing our 8,000 ft² Brookhaven property. Trying to craft ideas out of nothing for such a large space becomes a daunting task, especially when trying to keep the flow and consistency of the designs throughout the house. However Ryan pulled it off flawlessly and efficiently

Ty H.

Ryan has been great! He really helped us understand our proposed layout with 3D modeling and executed it flawlessly. His visualization tools really helped us understand what we were going to get before any construction took place. Highly recommended!

Taha A.

Find the Right Starting Point

Talk It Through on a Free Fit Call

Delano Designs offers everything from a single set of permit drawings to full planning and support through construction, all led personally by Ryan. Tell us where your project stands and we'll point you to the service that fits. 

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