HI, I’M MAURICE
Long before I could explain it, I knew that certain things made me feel something.
Music, Sport, Fashion, Film, Architecture, and Design, all held a certain resonance within me. That feeling, the one that tells you something is right before your mind catches up, that's the signal. Learning to trust it, and helping others do the same, is what everything I build comes back to.
This is a space built around one belief:
The Details Matter. In your home, your space, your work, your life — attention and intention changes everything.
I came to design through feeling, not formal training. Fashion, architecture, concept cars, film, music — every one of them is just a different instrument playing the same note. I've spent my life learning to follow that signal.
I didn't begin publicly sharing my passion for home and interior design until 2023, as I led a custom home build that would be my family's home. In 2025, Pennington Place Kitchen was named the SBID Regional Winner for the Americas in Kitchen Design and a TIDA International Kitchen of the Year Finalist. The same home was an SBID Finalist in the Residential House Over 1M category. These aren't credentials I chased. They're confirmation that when the details are right, the result speaks for itself.
behind the DETAILS
I didn't always know this was the work. But looking back, it always was.
I co-wrote a book on alignment with my wife Alisha. I call myself a recovering perfectionist (thanks Brené Brown!), not as a disclaimer, but because chasing perfection long enough teaches you something more valuable: alignment is more livable, and ultimately more true, than perfect ever could be.
I know what it feels like to stand in a room you designed and still feel like something is wrong. To make an expensive decision and immediately wonder if it was right. That gap between what you imagined and what you built isn't a taste problem. It's a trust problem.
The Details Matter exists to close that gap. Not by telling you what to choose. By helping you trust what you already know.
The details
I love modern, but the older I get the more traditional resonates more.
I grew up a tech geek: concept cars, sci-fi films, and computers. That is still very much a part of me, but taste evolves when you let it. What I've learned is that modern for the sake of modern is just another trend. The most interesting spaces hold both the warmth of traditional craft and the precision of modern thinking. And the best technology in a home is the kind you never see.
What I'm
feeling
That I belong, even without a formal design degree. The way I came to this work, through feeling, obsession, and paying attention to things most people don't notice, is the credential.
What I'm
learning
To keep trusting the feeling, even when I can't fully explain it yet. I've learned that L's aren't losses, they're lessons. The only way the instinct gets sharper is to keep betting on it.
What I'm
not about
Trends for the sake of trends. Designing for the camera instead of for the life being lived inside the space. Generic advice that sounds right, but doesn't help you move forward.
what I
believe
Taste is a byproduct of trust. You don't develop taste and then learn to trust it. You develop trust in yourself and taste follows. That's the whole thing.
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