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Welcome to Candid Home Design
We design the homes people meant to build the first time.
About the Company
Your Home Should Work as Hard as You Do
Your home is more than square footage and finishes. It’s the backdrop of your life — where your family grows, where memories are made, where you start and end every day. When the layout fights you, when the kitchen is in the wrong place, when the addition looks like it was bolted on by someone who didn’t care — you feel it every single day.
That’s the problem Candid Home Design was built to solve.
We are a residential building design firm headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, specializing in the projects most designers won’t touch: full home remodels, structural layout transformations, complex additions with complicated tie-ins, kitchens moved across the house, walls that come down and spaces that finally open up. If you’ve been living with a home that doesn’t fit your life and you’re ready to fix it for real — not patch it, not work around it, but actually fix it — you’re in the right place.
We don’t do decorating. We don’t pick cabinet pulls or light fixtures. What we do is far more fundamental: we redesign how your home is built, how it flows, how it functions — so that when it’s done, it feels like the builder should have done it this way the first time.
The Work We Love Most
Every project is different, but the ones that light us up share something in common: they’re hard. The addition that has to tie into three different rooflines. The 1970s ranch that needs its entire floor plan reconceived. The family that needs a multi-generational home where Grandma has her independence and dignity, and the kids still have room to grow.
We specialize in:
- Whole home remodels and structural transformations — moving walls, relocating kitchens, reimagining floor plans from the studs out
- Home additions — from modest expansions to large-scale additions with complex structural and architectural tie-ins
- Aging in place and accessible design — thoughtfully designed spaces that support independence, dignity, and connection for every stage of life
- Multi-generational living — ADUs, DADUs, in-law suites, and layouts designed for how modern families actually live
- Growing family additions — creating the space your family needs without losing the home you love
Services
Not every project needs to be a full gut remodel. We work with homeowners at every stage — whether you’re ready to take down one wall and open up your living space, add a single room, or start a phased remodel over time. If you’re not sure what your project needs or where to begin, that’s exactly what the consultation is for. No project is too small to deserve good design.
We also bring deep experience in accessible design — rooted in years of ADA and healthcare design work — to residential projects for aging family members, individuals with mobility challenges, or anyone planning ahead for a lifetime in their home.
Our Process Is Built for You — Wherever You Are
We’re based in Nashville and proudly serve the greater Middle Tennessee area — from Brentwood and Franklin to Gallatin, Lebanon, and Murfreesboro — but our design process is remote-first, which means geography doesn’t have to limit you. We’ve completed projects across Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Georgia, Indiana, and beyond, and we’re actively growing our footprint throughout the Southeast and beyond.
If your project is the right fit, we can work with you.
Built on Word of Mouth. Proven by 300 Projects - and Counting
We don’t have a corporate marketing machine behind us. Nearly every project we’ve completed has come through referral — from the homeowner who told their neighbor, the builder who called us back again and again, the engineer who trusted our work enough to recommend us by name. Close to 300 completed projects later, that’s still how most of our clients find us.
We think that says something.
Candid Home Design is family-owned and operated. That means when you work with us, you’re working with people who take your home personally — because we take every project personally.
About the Designer
Kymber Hatfield
Building Designer
Kymber didn’t set out to start a company. She set out to do work that mattered.
After earning her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oklahoma in 2014, she spent a year in commercial design — focusing on ADA compliance and accessible healthcare environments — before realizing that cubicle life wasn’t for her. She moved to Portland, Oregon, took on drafting work, waited tables, and kept her eyes open for something that felt right.
It found her in the most unexpected way.
Her boss asked her to draw up plans for a lean-to shed addition — just to get his girlfriend’s gardening tools out of his garage. Kymber did the plans. The work was apparently good enough that he mentioned her to his builder cousin. The cousin brought her a real addition-remodel project. And from there, through word of mouth alone, a company was born.
What followed was a decade of learning by doing — mentored by engineers and architects who pushed her to understand the structural side of design as deeply as the aesthetic side. Builders encouraged her to develop her prescriptive structural knowledge so she could work faster, smarter, and independently when engineering resources were stretched thin. She welcomed every bit of it.
Over the years, Kymber completed close to 300 residential projects — primarily across Oregon, with work in Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming — and developed a particular expertise in accessible design, aging in place remodels, and multi-generational living spaces. Her healthcare background gave her a foundation that most residential designers simply don’t have: an understanding that good design isn’t just beautiful, it’s functional in ways that give people their independence and their dignity.
“The aging-in-place work is some of my favorite,” she says. “It’s about making sure someone can stay in the home they love, close to the people they love, on their own terms. That means everything.”
In 2023, Kymber and her co-owner and partner Josh made a decision that felt both practical and profound: they were starting a family, and they wanted to be closer to theirs. They packed up, left the Pacific Northwest, and relocated to the Nashville area — bringing everything they’d built over a decade of complex residential design work to a new market.
That move felt right for another reason too. Kymber grew up in this part of the country. Coming back, with a decade of hard-won expertise and a growing portfolio, felt like coming home.
Today, Candid Home Design operates out of Middle Tennessee — family owned, deeply experienced, and genuinely passionate about helping homeowners build the lives they imagined in the homes they deserve.
Why Work With Us
What You Can Expect When You Work With Candid
We take the hard projects. If another designer told you your idea was too complicated, call us. The structural puzzle, the complicated tie-in, the layout that seems impossible — that’s exactly where we do our best work.
We think about how you actually live. Floor plans on paper are easy. Homes that function beautifully for real families — with kids, aging parents, remote work, changing needs — require a different kind of attention. We bring that attention to every project.
We make it feel like it was always meant to be. The highest compliment we can receive is when a visitor walks through a finished project and has no idea it was ever different. No seam where the addition begins. No moment where the remodel announces itself. Just a home that flows, functions, and feels whole.
We are accessible design specialists. From ADA-informed residential layouts to full aging-in-place remodels to multi-generational living configurations, we bring formal training and deep project experience to one of the most important and underserved areas of residential design.
We’re remote-ready. Our process works wherever you are. Nashville is home base — but if you have the right project, we’d love to talk.
Ready to Talk About Your Home?
If you’ve been sitting on a remodel idea — one that feels too big, too complicated, or just too hard to know where to start — this is the conversation to have.
Tell us about your home, your family, and what you wish were different. We’ll tell you what’s possible.