Allison founded Compass in 2025 after spending her career working in small residential design firms in the Midwest. She leads every project’s design — first site walk to final walk-through — and is the reason the studio stays small.
The studio
A place to listen first.
A small residential design and interiors practice in Northern Alabama, kept small on purpose.
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Small on purpose.
Compass is a small residential design and interiors practice in Northern Alabama. We keep our project list short, so every home receives the founders’ hands from first sketch to final walk-through.
We work in warm, quiet materials — cedar, stone, lime plaster, brass that ages — and we build to last for generations, not seasons.
Compass Design Studio
Residential Design · Interiors
The people
Who you’ll work with.
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Canyon co-founded the studio and keeps the practice running — schedules, budgets, builders, and the steady client communication Compass is known for. When the work moves, it moves through Canyon.
See what the studio has built.
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