Est. 2011 · Independence, Ohio
Aastha Interiors is a boutique commercial design studio in Independence, Ohio. For fifteen years we have designed offices, hotels, clinics, retail and amenity spaces for businesses across Northeast Ohio and the wider Midwest.
Above — Keystone Law Group lobby, Downtown Cleveland (2024)
Sectors
We work across five commercial sectors. Each one carries its own constraints — clinical workflow, hospitality service line, retail sightlines — and we've kept the studio small enough that every project is handled by Donna and a senior associate.
Sector 01
Offices that hold up to ten years of changing teams.
Sector 02
Independent hotels, restaurants, cafés and bars.
Sector 03
Clinics, dental practices, wellness and outpatient.
Sector 04
Independent retail, showrooms, flagships.
Sector 05
Lobbies, amenity floors, leasing centers.
Selected work
Workplace · Downtown Cleveland, OH · 2024
A 32-partner law firm's relocation into a restored 1920s tower required a workplace that felt grounded, quietly authoritative, and unmistakably Midwestern — not corporate-glass.
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Hospitality · Ohio City, Cleveland · 2023
A 48-key independent hotel on the near-west side, occupying a former hardware warehouse on the edge of Ohio City. The owners wanted a property that locals would walk into for a drink — not a sealed-off destination for travellers only.
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Healthcare · Tremont, Cleveland · 2023
A six-dentist group practice doubling its footprint into the unit next door. They asked us to make the space feel less like a clinic and more like the cafés their patients chose to spend a Saturday morning in.
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The studio
After fourteen years as a senior designer inside two larger architecture firms in Cleveland, Donna started Aastha Interiors to do the kind of close, considered commercial work that gets harder inside a 200-person practice. Today the studio is a tight team of three, supported by a network of local trades we've trusted for over a decade.
— Donna
More about the studio →A small selection of the businesses we've worked with
What clients say
"Donna's team did something most designers don't — they understood our business model before they touched a sketch. The result is a space that runs the way we work."
"We've worked with three interior firms before Aastha. None of them returned a phone call on a Friday. Donna picks up. That sets the tone for everything else."
"They came in under budget on a project where two contractors had already told us our budget was impossible. I still don't know how."
Insights
March 4, 2026 · 8 min read
We break down the real-world numbers — from a light cosmetic touch-up to a full floor reconstruction — and where the budget tends to escape mid-project.
February 18, 2026 · 7 min read
Material choices, light temperature, line-of-sight from the door — the small decisions that change how patients feel before the practitioner even walks in.
January 21, 2026 · 6 min read
Why a single dishonest material — a vinyl pretending to be leather, a printed laminate pretending to be marble — undoes everything else you spent your budget on.
Begin a project
Most engagements start with a discovery call and a walk of your existing space. We respond to every inquiry within two business days.