Behind

Bhaile

Bhaile is home in Irish Gaelic. Finding home means different things at different times along your life or business path.

I am Tessa Wood, I am the creator + artistic director of b.e. house. The branded environment house is an immersive interior design experience that brings your personal style home. What brought me here is a career in corporate brand storytelling enveloped with a love of high-end interior design. My strength is being able to connect clients with their personal brand through defining their innate style. The two design worlds in which I live bespoke this path. As an artisan, stylist, designer, and brand strategist, I get to create, cajole, re-invent, and pull style out of the ethers every day.

Under the backyard grapevine structure, as a child, I began drawing floor plans on the ground with a stick. My concepts were nothing like the house we lived in. I must have been 7-8 years old or something, because we moved away when I was nine. Yet my space planning skills were already burgeoning. When I was nine, I was drawing house elevations freehand. Mind you, this was the sixties and no magazines or computers were lying around! Just TV and visits to other people’s houses whirling around in my little head. The devil’s in the details….and I was paying attention! This is what I mean when I say that you are always telling stories with your style! Attending college in London in the ’80s solidified my expanding global style..

 Fine-tuned deductive reasoning skills conspire to create the unique environments that will become your personal brand. Together we will delve into the distinctive nuances that define the impetus that drives the pursuits and passions of your residential or commercial lifestyle by creating extraordinarily curated interiors that tell your unique story. Thank you for allowing me to share my extensive understanding of the power and persuasion of colour, design, and architecture as we embark on a deeper more personal level of storytelling.

Initiating your branded life/workstyle interior design is the heart & soul of the b.e.house journey.

b.e.artisan

I am an artist, a creator of artisan paint finishes, a master woodgrainer, a surface designer, and a restorationist. A strong love of architecture, a visionary approach to design, and a head full of ideas have brought me here. All I see is raw potential in any design challenge. Artisan work involves documenting the past, preserving the motifs, restoring the work, and carrying on the tradition of the old masters. Integrating these motifs into modern design concepts is b.e.artisan’s very personal journey. The branded environment finishes we create for your project will be uniquely designed for your story.

I have been fortunate to train with some top innovators in the artisan industry including Adele Bishop, Jocasta Innes, and Gary Lord. I am a Master Woodgrainer, trained by Biltmore Estate restorationist Derek Tickle. Gary Lord trained my mentor and friend Susan J. Warlick. I am proud to carry on Susan’s work, she believed, as I do, that this work is about skill, technique, and being visionary with the artistry and the tools to make it a very personal experience. It was London where I absorbed the aesthetic and became an artisan, in the old world style. It’s about instinct, it’s about emotion and it’s about art.

When all of those stars align, it creates an unforgettable environment.

AUTHENTIC  FINISHES  |  CUSTOM STENCIL MOTIFS  |  WOODGRAINING  |  CONSERVATION

Expectations

The b.e.house journey is a unique immersive interior design experience.

For residential design, we ignite your passions to create extraordinary personal spaces that chronicle your journey. For commercial design, we develop environments that enrich office culture through brand immersion. Curated events follow the same style guidelines. All brand journeys are an equally purposeful expression of the vision & mission of who you are, what you do, where you’ve been, how that journey inspired you & how it can continue to inspire.

b.e. house is a different way of looking at interior spaces. Style speaks on many levels within any design. At b.e.house, we do not replicate. The concepts we develop will be uniquely yours, right down the art on the walls. Finding the style that resonates with your pursuits, goals & rich personal history is our mission. As we continue to develop surfaces and environments that expand upon our creative offerings, we will be able to also elaborate upon more personal style stories for your next-level design experience.

For targeted residential, commercial, or event design, we are waiting to tell YOUR story.

“Some men see things as they are and say why – I dream things that never were and say why not.”
George Bernard Shaw