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PATINAJoin the Founding Circle

Make yourself at home.

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At your kitchen table.

On the same page
as your designer.

We’re building one page for you and your designer: what you agreed, from the brief to the install.

For designers

See the samples.Take a closer look

01 / 03 Three moments in one home

Meet Kody and Leah ↓

Illustration. Not a real project.

The app and marketplace are pre-launch. For your own home, the Founding Circle is open.

A place at the beginning ↗

01 / Who is behind it

Behind Patina,
two people.
One house at a time.

Rooted in Madison. Made for a wider circle.

Glazed tile, brass hardware, and ceramics in a Windy Peak kitchen detail by Middle West Studio

The living study / Illustration.

Illustration: two hands beside an opened envelope, a blank letter and samples taped to kraft card on a painted table.A little room to think it over.

Leave room for
the creative part.

A note from the studio

Windy Peak / Middle West Studio
Interior design by Leah Kochaver. Photography by Ashley Hicks.

01 Leah / the designer’s eye

Your house
already has
a point of view.

Leah designs homes at Middle West Studio in Madison. She starts with how you live: what you keep, where the morning light lands, the things you reach for without thinking.

At Patina she leads design, so the page you share with your designer reads the way a good designer thinks.

Your taste, written down where your designer can see it.

02 Kody / the one building it

What you decide
shouldn’t get lost
in a text thread.

Kody saw a gap around Leah’s work. The rooms were personal. The decisions behind them lived in emails, texts and notebooks.

He’s building Patina so what you choose with your designer stays on one page, from the brief to the install, where the people building your kitchen can see it too.

Our story, still being written

02 / Where you come in

Your eye.
A designer’s care.
Something that’s yours.

We’re building a way for your taste and a designer’s judgment to meet on one page. The Founding Circle helps shape it.

See what we’re building

For your own home.

The Founding
Circle.

We’re building Patina so real designers shape what belongs, real makers craft the pieces, and your room gets the attention it deserves.

Limited to 200 founding members. Open wherever you call home.

More than early access.

First access
Be first through the door when the app launches, and first to test it as we build.
Real influence
Monthly questions on which makers to bring in and which styles to explore. Your input shapes the product.
Behind the curtain
Updates from Kody and Leah as the catalog grows and Patina takes shape. The real building story.
Your name at launch
Founding members get credited at launch. Your name on the thing you helped build.
Always a founder
Your founding-member status never expires. Your early support stays part of Patina’s story.

Patina / Founding Circle
Madison, Wisconsin

A place
at the table.

We’re building what we wish existed for furnishing a home. A place where a designer’s judgment, a maker’s care, and your own point of view come together.

We’re not ready to launch yet. But we’d love your help getting there — choosing what matters, trying what we’re making, and helping it become something worth keeping.

Warmly, Kody & Leah

Your welcome begins with a first letter from Kody.
First access when the app launches.

Where Time Adds Value.The app and marketplace are pre-launch.

For designers.

Your judgment
belongs here.

Running a studio? Patina is built for the year it brings on its first designer and the work doubles. Kody and Leah read every application.

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