Kristen Mills founded inch projects to close the distance between design and the build that brings it to life

Before interiors, she spent a long career in financial services leading strategic planning for businesses at home and abroad. That discipline still shapes every schedule, budget and decision. Travel, and a lifelong eye for vintage, shape everything else.

The studio works across Charleston, the surrounding islands and beyond for both residential and small hospitality spaces. Each one starts with how the space should feel, then moves, inch by inch, toward how it should look.