A Year of Growth & Gratitude

December 18, 2025 | ballonSTUDIO

Warm Wishes from ballonSTUDIO

As we reflect back on 2025, we want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to you: our clients, collaborators, and friends. Your trust allows us to step into inspiring spaces, create meaningful beauty, and do what we truly love every single day. For that, we are endlessly thankful.

Broadway Penthouse Refresh

This year, we documented one of our iconic projects, Broadway Penthouse, as part of this home’s refresh to breathe new life into a familiar space. With careful updates in palette, texture, and detailing, the home now carries a renewed sense of ease and comfort for our beloved client.

The Power of Collaboration

No project comes to life in a vacuum, and this year reminded us just how much depth our collaborators bring to the design process. From artisans and architects to builders and fabricators, each partner contributes something irreplaceable. Together, we shape spaces that are far more nuanced, expressive, and deeply felt than any of us could create individually.

And to our clients: your homes are your sanctuaries, and being welcomed into them is a privilege we never take lightly. Thank you for trusting us with your dreams, your stories, and the spaces that matter most to you and your families. None of this work, none of the joy or creativity that fills our days, would be possible without your faith in us.

2025 Highlights

Let’s stay in touch as we head into the new year! Follow along on Instagram @sabraballon for behind-the-scenes moments, design inspiration, and our latest reel highlighting our favorite moments of 2025.

Looking Ahead

This year was one of momentum; subtle refinements, meaningful breakthroughs, and slow and steady progress overall. We’ve been quietly building, developing, and dreaming.

On a personal note, I recently returned from Sri Lanka on what I can only describe as a design pilgrimage where I immersed myself in the Tropical Modernist work of Geoffrey Bawa and his long-standing collaborations with artists, Laki Senanayake and Ena de Silva. Experiencing an island where architecture, landscape, craft, and daily life exist in harmony - with gardens and buildings lovingly preserved across the country - was profoundly inspiring, and a beautiful reminder of what’s possible when design is rooted in collaboration, trust, and respect for nature.

Wishing you a warm, joyful season and a beautiful start to 2026. We’re so looking forward to what we’ll create together.

About ballonSTUDIO

Founded in 2003 by Sabra Ballon, ballonSTUDIO is a San Francisco luxury interior design firm specializing in high-end residential design, interior architecture, renovations, new construction, and boutique commercial and hospitality spaces. Known for its earthy modernism, fine art integration, and architecture-led approach, the studio creates timeless, highly personalized interiors for private homeowners, families, and estate clients. Serving San Francisco, Marin County, Palo Alto, Napa Valley, Sonoma, Santa Lucia Preserve, Carmel and Lake Tahoe, ballonSTUDIO combines more than 20 years of design expertise with discreet, highly collaborative, full-service project management from concept through installation.