Nashville interior design for a city building in every direction

About HH Designers and our work in Nashville

Nashville has spent the past decade becoming three cities at once: the headquarters town of American healthcare, one of the country’s most visited hospitality markets, and a relocation destination for employers leaving higher-cost coastal metros. Each of those identities builds interiors at a different speed and to a different standard, and together they are producing demand the local design market alone cannot absorb. HH Designers is a national commercial interior design firm working across 21 states, Tennessee among them, and we bring the same team, process, and documentation standards to Nashville that we bring to our work in New York, New Jersey, and Florida.

Our practice spans healthcare and senior living, hospitality, workplace, multifamily, retail, and community and religious design. That range matters in a market like Nashville, where a single client — a hospital operator fitting out a headquarters floor, a developer opening a hotel a block from Lower Broadway, a congregation building near a university campus — is often planning across more than one property type at a time. Every engagement runs through our structured design process and ends with a complete Spec Book: floor plans, elevations, lighting and finish schedules, and FF&E documentation a Nashville general contractor can build from without guesswork.

We also arrive with a credential few firms of any size can claim: HH Designers has designed more Chabad houses than any other interior design firm. For a city whose Jewish infrastructure is growing alongside its universities and its inbound population, that experience — shul, mikvah, kosher kitchens, and the multipurpose rooms that let one building serve an entire community — is directly relevant.

Campus & community religious design

Nashville’s campus communities — Vanderbilt University foremost among them — anchor a distinctive building type. A campus Chabad house or Jewish student center is not a scaled-down synagogue. It is a hybrid: a shul, a commercial-grade kosher kitchen that can turn out hundreds of Shabbat meals, study and social space that has to feel like home to a nineteen-year-old, and often a residence for the Shluchim who run it. We have designed this building type before — Chabad of Binghamton, serving one of the largest Jewish student communities in the country, is a completed example of our campus work — and we understand how the pieces fit together under one roof and one budget.

Our Chabad house practice is grounded in halachic fluency: aron kodesh placement, mechitzah design that satisfies both halacha and sightlines, mikvah construction requirements, and kitchens that keep meat and dairy genuinely separate under real-world use. Just as important, we know how these projects are governed. We work comfortably with Shluchim, rabbis, boards, and donors — groups whose priorities overlap but rarely align perfectly — and we produce renderings and documentation that help a building committee decide and help donors see exactly what they are funding.

Designing for the healthcare capital

No American city concentrates healthcare management the way Nashville does. HCA Healthcare is headquartered here, and hundreds of hospital operators, post-acute companies, payers, and health-services firms cluster around it. That ecosystem generates two kinds of interior demand at once: corporate space that communicates institutional stability to lenders, acquirers, and recruits, and the clinical real estate — medical offices, outpatient clinics, senior living campuses — that these companies operate across the Southeast.

We design on both sides of that line, and the second side is where our credentials run deepest. Our healthcare portfolio includes 27+ skilled nursing and senior living projects for multi-site operators of exactly the kind headquartered in Nashville. We know how a director of operations reads a finish schedule, how survey readiness shapes material selection, and how design decisions surface in census, staffing, and length of stay. When a Nashville operator engages us for a headquarters floor, a facility prototype, or a portfolio refresh, they are working with a firm that already speaks the language of their buildings. Start with our skilled nursing and workplace practices.

A hospitality market running at capacity

Nashville’s tourism economy has made hospitality the city’s most visible design market. Hotels keep opening from SoBro to The Gulch to Germantown; restaurant groups from other cities choose Nashville for their next market; and the live-music venue — the building type this city defined — keeps evolving upward from the Lower Broadway honky-tonk into multi-floor venues with rooftop bars, private event levels, and broadcast-ready stages.

We design hotels, restaurants, and bars with the operational discipline this market demands. In a venue district, acoustics are not a refinement; they are the program. The room has to photograph well, because every guest publishes it, but it has to operate even better than it photographs. The decisions that determine whether a Nashville concept makes money include:

• Sound isolation and acoustic zoning between stacked venues, event levels, and guest floors
• Stage sightlines from every seat that pays, not just the ones in the renderings
• Bar and service layouts sized for throughput at a three-hour nightly peak
• Finish systems that survive continuous volume and still read well on camera

Multifamily growth across Middle Tennessee

The growth that drives Nashville’s hospitality boom is also filling apartments — downtown and The Gulch first, then Germantown, East Nashville, Wedgewood-Houston, and the corridors toward Franklin and Murfreesboro. In a market delivering this many units, amenity design is the leasing battleground: a prospect tours three comparable buildings in one afternoon, and the lobby, coworking lounge, fitness floor, and rooftop decide which one they remember.

Our amenity design work treats these spaces as revenue infrastructure rather than decoration. We program amenities against the actual resident profile — our guide to amenity programming lays out the method — and we specify contract-grade FF&E that still looks right in year five, when the building is competing against newer inventory down the street.

Corporate relocations & the new Nashville workplace

Nashville’s corporate base is no longer just healthcare. AllianceBernstein relocated its headquarters here from New York, Oracle has committed to a major campus on the East Bank, and a steady stream of finance, technology, and professional-services employers has followed the talent. These firms arrive with workplace standards formed in Manhattan and the Bay Area, and they expect interiors that meet those standards without pretending the office is still in Manhattan.

We design workplaces that hold both requirements: benchmark-grade space planning, acoustics, and hybrid-work infrastructure, expressed in materials that belong in Tennessee. Because we work nationally, we can keep a relocating client’s brand standards consistent across offices while giving the Nashville location its own reason to exist. Our site visit program, client portal, and photorealistic 3D renderings keep out-of-state stakeholders as close to the project as anyone local — and the engagement begins the same way every HH Designers project does, with a conversation and a detailed proposal.