Our Studio
Our Story
A team of six. A standard of one.
Rigby Wood is a team of six professionals who collaborate with exceptional brands and skilled craftspeople to seamlessly bring elevated design to client spaces. We develop bespoke and comprehensive plans combining the beautiful elements of a home with the practical.
We partner with clients to maintain a clear understanding of project budget, process, timeline, and quality, ensuring every detail of the home is considered from its functionality to final finishing detail.
Our Arlington, Virginia-based team brings 80+ years of experience across luxury interior design, real estate, and project management, and has delivered over 85 projects for clients in the DC area and beyond. We welcome travel projects both near and far, from New York to the Appalachian Mountains, Sea Island to Florida horse country.
Our Team
The Rigby Wood Team
Sarah Beth Wood
Founder, Principal Designer
Sarah Beth founded Rigby Wood with a belief that a home should be both deeply personal and effortlessly refined. Her collaborative approach and exacting eye guide every project from concept to completion.
Tom Wood
Principal - Finance, Operations & Technology
Mary Beth Booth, NCIDQ
Interior Designer
Beth Taylor
Operations Manager
Erin Baynham
Project Manager
Belinda McRae
Production, Drafting & Design
Dolly Wood
Chair, Security & Snack Committee
Our Approach
Core alignment with each client's needs and vision.
Our Clients Are Great People
We enjoy working with those who are lacking in time, looking for deep expertise, and longing for a home that nurtures and inspires them.
Full-Service Approach
Our approach goes beyond traditional design services. We collaborate with experts to address the whole client experience, including moving, cleaning, home systems, stone masons, millworkers, A/V, smart home, and landscape architects.
From the Beginning
Our partnership often begins before the initial meeting with architects or contractors, ensuring the design vision is incorporated from the very beginning, for new construction and existing space transformations alike.
Highly Personalized
Our approach is always highly personalized, ensuring each project results in a home that feels uniquely yours. We structure our time so that every client is the priority client.
"Building and designing a home can be daunting, but with Sarah Beth and the Rigby Wood team leading the process, it became an exciting and rewarding experience. Her vision was exceptional, but what truly set her apart was her ability to bring that vision to life in a way that also works for our family."
Avery B., Arlington, Virginia
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Tell us about your project →A Note on AI
An image is instant.
Beautiful, thoughtful spaces are not.
Anyone can generate a beautiful, inspiring image these days. The value of a full service interior designer has never been the picture. It's everything required to make the picture real.
Workflows, Accelerated
We embrace AI. With deep technological expertise in-house, we use it to widen the field of ideas and explore possibilities faster than ever. We've used AI to develop Rigby Wood applications that streamline and strengthen our project management to benefit all clients, and we'll continue to explore ways it can improve our processes and client service.
The Remaining 95%
An inspiration image is just the beginning of our work together. A realized home - a space that fits with your life and inspires you - must answer to the physical realities of budget, space dimensions, lead times, and thousands of coordinated pieces and decisions.
The Art of Composition
The designer's art is composition and materiality - the way pieces behave together in a real space. Only those experienced in the craft and trade of interior design composes a room around each client, their life, and how they want to use their space and feel in their home.
Judgment That Translates
When budget, space, and timelines are thoughtfully considered, it takes a team with extensive design and project management experience to make the right decisions and turn a vision into a finished home.