Gild & Wit Interiors

Gild & Wit Interiors is a full service interiors firm creating high-end residential interiors, from individual rooms to entire homes. Services include construction management and owner advocacy, style development, space planning, custom furniture design, color consulting, redesign of existing spaces and shopping & styling services. I am Sara Fred Hoffman and Gild & Wit Interiors is my interior design firm. I live in the Chicago neighborhood of Lincoln Park (by way of Sweden, Oak Park, Atlanta, and Boston) with my husband and 3 kids. You will find style influences from the places I have lived in the work that I do. I feel that real life is the best inspiration and real experiences are the best school. I began my design career organically as a kid when my parents let me have free reign over my room and furniture. They learned the hard way that giving me free reign meant that I didn't think twice when decoupage-ing a family heirloom. Eventually I left home and would design and consulting for everyone I could from friends for their college dorm rooms to my parents' friend's homes. As an adult I freelanced in design while I spent my days in Health Care. Soon I found that my love for design, which once filled my nights and weekends was spilling into my work days too. Eventually I left my desk job entirely and started working for a designer in Boston. Finally, fueled by my passion for people, design and a growing client base, I went legit. Here we are these years later and I have worked on projects of all sizes from full house gut renovations to studio apartment furniture plans. Gild & Wit's philosophies are simple. I believe good design should be for all people and all budgets. Form and function must coexist equally to create the best interiors and a little bit of wit and whimsy make it home.