About the studio
A studio built around slow rooms.
Autumn Lynn Carroll grew up wandering the antique malls of East Tennessee with her grandmother, learning to spot the difference between a thing that's old and a thing that has lived. Devhassy Studio is the small practice she founded in 2014 to bring that same quiet attention into other people's homes.
We are not a large firm. There is no in-house line of furniture, no ten-step branded process. There is one designer, a handful of trusted craftspeople around Nashville, and a deep belief that a home should outlast trends — and feel like its people, not its decade.
2014
Studio founded
Begun in a converted carriage house in East Nashville.
120+
Homes styled
From Belmont bungalows to Franklin farmhouses.
38%
Faster sales
Average improvement on the staging side of our work.
Our philosophy
Quietness is a finish.
The most photographed room in the world is not the one you'd want to live in. We design for the in-between hours — coffee mornings, Sunday reading, the long stretch between dinner and sleep. Rooms shouldn't shout. They should hold you.
That means natural materials over synthetic; honest finishes over high-gloss; fewer pieces, chosen carefully. It also means working with what you already love. Almost every project begins by walking your house with you and listing what stays.
Press & recognition
- — Nashville Lifestyles, "Best of the South" feature, 2023
- — StyleBlueprint Nashville, "FACES of Design," 2022
- — The Local Palate, kitchen feature, Spring 2024
- — Belmont University guest critic, Interior Design program, 2021–present