JAS Design Build

Frelard

3 years ago we found ourselves needing more space for our Specialty & Service carpenters to work on client projects off-site.

We found an old shop wedged between Fremont and Ballard and aptly named it Frelard. Frelard functions as a multi-use space for carpenters, painters, our Service team, interiors inventory, general storage, and hosts several desks for office staff. It's a do-all space reminiscent of a 1998 JAS.

The building has a full shop space as well as paint booth, allowing us to handle doors, cabinets, and table bases all in one place.

Our friends at 𝐸𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝐵𝑟𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 came by recently to help us get a cabinet package to the finish line. It provided the opportunity to work alongside them and work collaboratively throughout the process.

Second interiors install complete!

While we were renovating our client's kitchen and bathroom, they realized their furniture no longer belonged. It was chosen for a different stage in life…young professionals in a modern condo…not the craftsman they now call home. They wanted pieces that reflected the character of the home and who they are becoming. We basically started from scratch.

Through the interior design process, we collaborated with our clients and used these guiding principles: Welcoming, Collected, Vintage, Timeless, Layered, Effortless, Textured, Color, Gathering, Home.

We recently wrapped another beautiful project and handed the home back to our clients.

Designed to be a refuge in the trees, this new building adds flexibility to a beloved family property adjacent to a city park. The new dwelling unit draws formal inspiration from the main house, and will be furnished with a mix of the clients’ existing antiques and new pieces selected by JAS. We loved making this “treehouse” for our amazing clients.

More photos to come when the furnishings are installed. Stay tuned!

Certain situations need solutions that are less architectural but just as personal & tailored. The pieces need to be exactly what you were hoping for.

When clients can't find the perfect piece of furniture, we can help. We often design and build furniture to fit spaces perfectly such as tables, benches, banquettes, and media cabinets.

Having problems finding a specific sized table, or need a custom banquette? Reach out and let's talk.

Our philosophy when it comes to interior furnishings is that everything in your home should have a purpose, or you should absolutely love it.

For the past 10 years we have worked to integrate interior design into our design-build model and decided to offer interior design & furnishing services. The primary mission of JAS Interior Furnishings is to continue to partner with our build clients as well as working with new clients on “Interiors-Only” projects.

Helping to cultivate and enliven meaningful living spaces anchored in those key Design-Build values is how we have chosen to approach selecting and coordinating the “stuff of life”.

Thinking about an interior design project? We would be happy to help.

Handing a home back to a client is one of the most rewarding days as a design-build firm.

We just did the final walk-thru on this Seattle project. Larger projects take time, often 9 months or more. Our clients move out so that we can build-out the vision that we had been collaborating on for months. And as the project comes to an end, the JAS team is excited to witness the family moving back in - the smiles, the comments, the kids running around checking out their new spaces, and we can step back and be proud of the work.

Their home is still the same, just improved. Still has the heart and soul of the original character that drew them to the house to begin with. We just assist in helping our clients make it their own.

Before & Wow.

We’ve designed and built many 2nd stories in our 30+ years of business.

Each one is unique, yet unified by our attention to detail and a commitment to timeless design.

Creating “new” homes that don’t feel out place in the neighborhood requires an additional level of care that often goes overlooked. We are all familiar with structures that pop-up and just look out of place, where design was clearly an afterthought to the budget.

It’s not easy, but with a decerning architect and talented builders, a remodel has the capacity to maintain an elegant timelessness withing a wide variety of budgets.

If you’re contemplating a second story addition, or any addition for that matter, reach out! We’d love to start a conversation about your project.

A visit to the Heath Ceramics tile factory in San Francisco!

Owner of Heath Ceramics, Cathy Bailey, gave Kim & Joe a tour of the production facilities during their recent visit to San Francisco.

Heather Ceramics was founded in 1948 by Edith and Brian Heath in Sausalito, CA. The company still operates out of the same building in Sausalito but has expanded to an old laundry facility in San Francisco’s Mission District. Heath Ceramics continues to make beautifully handcrafted tile and home goods.

Kim and Cathy met at a creative retreat in New Mexico last year and have held a mutual admiration for each other’s work ever since.

Big thanks to Cathy and the entire Heath team for showing us around! You have an amazing operation and eye for design!

JazzBall 2026

The great musician Nina Simone found her voice by uniting two worlds that are rarely connected: the structure of classical music and the free expression of jazz. Alchemy often happens this way, with each element calling and responding to the other so naturally that an unexpected pairing begins to feel inevitable. Through jazz, Simone harnessed her magic and described it simply:

“𝐽𝑎𝑧𝑧 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐, 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔.”

—𝑁𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝑆𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒

Since 2021, jazz has been a meeting place for celebrating, amplifying, and supporting a shared commitment to affordable homeownership and sustainable rural development on Lopez Island.

JAS co-founders Joe Schneider and Kim Clements have both served as dedicated board members for Northwest nonprofit organizations: Joe with the https://www.lopezclt.org/ (LCLT), and Kim with https://www.seattlejazzed.org/.

Their work with these organizations—one focused on affordable homeownership, sustainable agriculture, and rural development, and the other opening the empowering, community-building world of jazz to K–12 students—inspired the idea for JazzBall.

To read more about this event please click on Linkin.bio.