Chicago · residential & boutique commercial
Rooms that are collected, not decorated.
A full-service interior design studio in Chicago, working across the country on homes, restaurants and workplaces built from natural materials and detailing drawn by hand.
Selected work
All projects
The studio
One designer, start to last light switch.
Script Interiors is the practice of Manal Ajami. She is the designer you meet in the first walkthrough, the one drawing your millwork, and the one standing in the room at install. A handful of projects a year, taken one at a time.
How a project runs
Services & process- 01
Walkthrough
An hour in the space and a straight conversation about scope, budget and timing.
- 02
Concept
Plans, a material board you can hold, and renders of the rooms that decide the project.
- 03
Documentation
Construction drawings, millwork details, lighting and electrical, and a costed schedule.
- 04
Procurement
We order, track and warehouse everything, and keep the budget updated as we go.
- 05
Install
Site visits through construction, then a full install and styling in one or two days.
Ways to work together
All servicesFull-service interiors
Space planning, finishes, lighting, furniture, art and accessories — specified, procured and installed. One schedule, one budget, one point of contact. We present a full concept before anything is ordered and revise it with you until it is right.
Interior architecture
For new builds and gut renovations we join early, refine the architectural plans, and draw the interior details that give a house its character: millwork, cabinetry, trim profiles, stone layouts, tile setting and every plumbing and lighting location.
Custom furniture
When a room needs a piece that does not exist, we draw it and have it made — upholstery, case goods, beds, benches, tables — with makers we have worked with for years.
Commercial
Restaurants, tasting rooms, cafés, offices and boutique hospitality. Residential warmth built to take commercial wear, coordinated with your contractor, kitchen consultant and landlord.
“Manal listened more than she talked, then drew exactly the house we had been describing badly for years.”
Homeowners, Lincoln Park
Rooms as they come together
The gallery
