Multi Family Interior Design in the Inland Empire

Builders in Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Moreno Valley, Riverside, Temecula and Murrieta put up garden-style and wrap communities, and the building type decides most of the interior before a single chair is chosen.

Garden-style buildings spread amenities across several small stops, so each one needs its own reason to exist. A wrap community puts the leasing office, clubroom and fitness room around a parking structure, which makes the entry sequence and the walk from the garage the first design problem. Where a podium appears, the ground floor carries the lobby and amenities for everyone above it, and the furniture plan has to handle more foot traffic in less floor area.

• Garden-style: several small amenity stops, each with one clear job
• Wrap: a short, well-lit path from the garage to the lobby and the mail area
• Podium: a ground floor that sorts arrivals, deliveries and gathering without crowding

Inland summers are hot and dry, the sun is intense, and the Santa Ana winds arrive in the fall carrying dust. Those conditions shape specifications. Fabrics near large windows need color that holds under strong light. Outdoor furniture on pool decks and patios should be heavy enough, or secured, to stay where it is placed. Hard surfaces that wipe clean stand up better than anything that traps fine dust.

The regional palette gives the interior a point of view without a theme. Stucco tones, clay tile, warm wood and drought-tolerant plantings echo the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial buildings people already know. A model unit built on that palette shows a prospect a home that belongs to the place, and the same pieces carry through corridors and lobbies so the community reads as one idea.