A1Projects

The work, before and after and room by room.

Everything on this page comes from the studio's own project albums in Yakima and the Valley. The finished rooms are professional photography. Many of the before photos are phone snapshots, which is exactly why they are worth keeping: you can see what the room really started as.

Start with the three before and after pairs, then browse the portfolio by room. Names are the way the studio files its jobs, by client or by house.

Before and after Room by room

Lewis master bath with barnwood walls, a lit floating vanity and a freestanding tub — Lewis Master Bath

B2Before and after

An oak kitchen becomes a dark, calm one.

Before: a kitchen with oak cabinets and dated counters, photographed on a phone — Before

After: the same kitchen rebuilt with dark cabinetry and a long island — After

After: the finished kitchen island seen from the other side of the room — After: the island

“Hi, Melissa! Hope all is well. Thank you for sharing the pictures. We love the remodel! Always a pleasure working with you!! I'm sure we will have another project in the future we can work on together. Take care! Katie S.”
Katie S., note on the kitchen after-album

B3Before and after

A dated shower, rebuilt in hexagon tile.

The dated tile shower on the left is what the bathroom had. The two photos beside it show the hexagon shower and the vanity wall from the finished remodel.

Before: a bathroom shower in dated tile — Before

After: the shower rebuilt in hexagon tile — After: the shower

After: the matching vanity wall in the hexagon-tile bathroom — After: the vanity

B42023 CWHBA Remodeler of the Year

The Selah cottage: from the scaries to finished.

In 2022 M. Brewer Properties bought a foreclosure in Selah, Washington, in hopes of finding a gem. In an 11th hour decision, M.B. Designs entered the finished house in the 2023 Tour of Homes, and it earned Melissa Brewer the Central Washington Home Builders Association's 2023 Remodeler of the Year award. Here is the whole trip, in the studio's own captions.

Before: the blue foreclosed cottage in Selah — The scaries!

Before: the Selah cottage in winter with snow on the ground — It gets WORSE before it gets better!

A crew working on the Selah cottage roof, seen from a distance — The crew on the roof

After: the Selah cottage finished in white with a brick patio — After: white siding, brick patio

The award

Presented December 14, 2023, at the Anchored in Excellence CWHBA Gala at the Yakima Valley College Conference Center.

The housing program Awards and press

Before: the kitchen inside the Selah cottage — Before: the cottage kitchen

After: the Selah cottage kitchen, finished — After: the cottage kitchen

C5Room by room

The portfolio, filed the way the studio files it.

Kitchens, baths, and then everything else: living and dining rooms, exteriors and a commercial office. Each caption is the project name from the studio's albums.

Kitchens

Lukas kitchen with a wide island and a run of tall cabinets — Lukas Kitchen

Bernier kitchen with a navy island and black pendant lights — Bernier: navy island, black pendants

Hartman kitchen with white cabinetry and exposed beams — Hartman Kitchen

Burley kitchen with a white island under timber beams — Burley: white island, beams

Lewis kitchen with a cherry island — Lewis Kitchen

Bright white kitchen with a timber island from the Lust Tour of Homes 2026 house — Lust Tour of Homes 2026 (Country Ln)

Wide view of the Country Lane kitchen island and windows — Lust Tour of Homes 2026: the island, wide

Kitchen from the 2023 Tour of Homes house in Selah — 2023 Tour of Homes

Baths

Lewis master bath vanity with lighting under the mirror — Lewis Master Bath: the vanity

Hay's master bath with a stone wall, a soaking tub and a skylight — Hay's Master Bath

Curbless walk-in shower with a fold-down seat and a grab bar — Curbless shower, fold-down seat

Bathroom with a clawfoot tub — Clawfoot tub bath

Living, dining & exteriors

Marshall-Sande living room with beams and a brick fireplace — Marshall-Sande: living room

Marshall-Sande dining room — Marshall-Sande: dining

Burley dining room with a reclaimed plank wall and a linear chandelier — Burley: plank wall, linear chandelier

Nickoloff living room with white built-ins and a river-rock fireplace — Nickoloff: built-ins, river-rock fireplace

Nickoloff dining area, tall view — Nickoloff: dining

Perry Home exterior at dusk with glass garage doors — Perry Home at dusk

Perry Home entry with stacked stone at dusk — Perry Home: the entry

O'Meara-Wyman deck with a Japanese maple beside it — O'Meara-Wyman: deck

White farmhouse-style home with lantern-topped stone pillars from the 2023 Tour of Homes — 2023 Tour of Homes: exterior

Moss Adams office break room with a long counter and stools — Moss Adams: office break room

Moss Adams office lounge — Moss Adams: lounge

Laundry room from the Lust Tour of Homes 2026 house — Lust Tour of Homes 2026: laundry

D6On the drawing board

Builds done with other builders.

These four homes come from the studio's earlier under-construction page, which dates from 2020. Read them as past partner builds, where M.B. Designs worked alongside the builder named below.

The studio works with clients' own contractors and can also act as the General. See new construction finishes.

P1
Mullen Residence
Mark Helms Construction · Chinook Pass, WA
P2
Beddeson Residence
Dale Turner Construction · Yakima, WA
P3
Uhlman Residence
Mark Helms Construction · Yakima, WA
P4
Asher Residence
WoodRidge Custom Homes · Suncadia, WA

E7Your room next

Bring your photos. Start with a mutual interview.

Every job above began with a conversation to see if the studio and the client were a good fit. Call to schedule an appointment with a designer, tour the showroom, and bring your plans and your own before photos.

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