Meet Olya
Most clients come to me overwhelmed by choices. My job is to make those decisions clear and confident — before you spend on cabinetry.
Objective kitchen & space planning before construction begins.
Most clients come to me overwhelmed by choices. My job is to make those decisions clear and confident — before you spend on cabinetry.
“What impressed me most was Olya’s ability to keep the entire project cohesive while staying mindful of our budget.”
— Kalina S. · Treasure Island, FL
“What began as a kitchen conversation turned into something I hadn’t planned for — a complete rethinking of the entire wing. I’m glad it did.”
— Denise A. · St. Petersburg, FL
“Olya saw what the space could become long before we did. The result feels larger, brighter, and far more enjoyable to live in — and it changed how our entire home works.”
— Megan L. · St. Petersburg, FL
Most regret in a kitchen comes from choices made under pressure. We slow that moment down — clarifying tone, finish, and flow before anything is ordered.
Cabinets don't live in showrooms. Every recommendation is calibrated to your light, your existing rooms, and the way your household actually moves.
A trained eye for material harmony — the kind that makes a space feel composed rather than catalogued. Restrained, layered, intentional.
An hour with a designer — at the showroom or in your home — answering the questions samples can't.
Not selection — composition. A documented palette where every material works with the architecture of your home, not against it.
How the kitchen actually works. The hidden architecture behind a beautiful elevation.
A complete concept for the kitchen — including everything in services 02 and 03 — extended into the living and dining areas it opens onto. One language, one palette, one resolved space.
A complete design vision for an entire residence — the scope of the project shown above. Architecture, materials, furniture, lighting, smart home and styling, in one resolved language.
A turnkey purchase on the St. Pete Beach shoreline. The client came with a simple brief: replace the kitchen cabinetry. What emerged — once the architecture was properly read — was something larger: a complete transformation of the entire residence, bringing a space of genuine bones finally into conversation with the Gulf it faces.
The mandate became larger than the kitchen: bring the entire residence forward by twenty years, make 8'3" ceilings feel taller than they are, and let the Gulf become the only thing in the room that draws the eye.
The architecture had character — a stacked-stone column, layered ceilings, an unobstructed Gulf horizon — but the kitchen worked against it. A mirrored mosaic backsplash competed with the water. A freestanding refrigerator broke the sightline. White shaker fronts and farmhouse fittings belonged to another decade. The stone column on the dining-room side held a single hung painting — a decorative gesture on what was otherwise a blind wall.
The coffered ceiling existed — but in a heavy vocabulary, with deep beams at 8'3" pressing the room down. We squared and slimmed every beam, replaced white paint with rift-cut white oak, and introduced continuous LED coves where there had only been flat recessed lights.
The stacked-stone column stayed — and became an anchor. On the dining-room face, where there had only been a hung painting, we built in a custom display bar: oak-framed, smoked-glass doors, blackened interior, LED-lit. Decorative gesture replaced with an architectural one.
Patterned quartz replaced with full-slab quartzite: monolithic, sealant-free. All-white cabinetry gave way to rift-cut white oak, paired with Alabaster — gloss on the upper run, matte on the flanking towers.
The refrigerator lives behind an Alabaster panel. An appliance garage absorbs the coffee machine and small electrics. Dishwasher, induction cooktop, microwave drawer, two wine refrigerators — all integrated. The hood disappears into cabinetry.
The high-gloss Alabaster reflects the Gulf during daylight — pulling the view inward across the kitchen wall. LED beneath the cabinetry handles task light by day, a low glow at night.
Before & after — the dining-room face of the stone column.
The dining-room face of the existing stone column — once a blind wall with a single hung painting — now houses a custom-built bar: oak-framed cabinetry recessed into the stone, smoked-glass doors, a blackened interior under warm LED. The column finally belongs to the room.
The full sweep at sunset — dining, bar column, living room and the Gulf beyond. The coffered ceiling anchors the scale; the orbital chandelier marks the threshold between spaces.
This is a large project — but the thinking behind it scales down just as easily as it scales up. Concealed appliances, layered light, material restraint, the discipline of letting one thing in the room be the hero — these decisions belong as much to a compact condo kitchen as to a full-floor beachfront residence. Size sets the budget. It does not set the level of design.
— Olya Egorov, Alchemy Architectural & Interior Design
MBA · MIT Sloan · Psychologist · 30 years leading complex projects & renovations
I didn't come to design through architecture school. I came to it through thirty years in business — through renovating my own homes more than once, and through building a professionally outfitted wine cellar with full climate and inventory systems for my company.
Along the way I noticed something simple. The difference between a beautiful home and a forgettable one is rarely the budget. It's the decisions made in the first two weeks — and most of those decisions are made under pressure, by people who have never been taught to make them.
Alchemy is the practice I built around that observation. I work on kitchens of every scale — from compact condos to whole-home renovations — with the same attention and the same process.
Olya Egorov, Founder · Alchemy Architectural & Interior Design
Yes — nothing changes with your showroom relationship. The consultation is independent advice on direction, not a separate purchase channel.
Yes. This is collaboration, not competition. The showroom knows the product; I help you decide what to do with it in the context of your specific home.
All the more reason. Most decisions are still reversible at the selection stage — and a session often surfaces something important before it becomes expensive to change.