St. Pete Barbers
Design · Build · St. Petersburg, FL

Making spaces make sense.

Design and build as one continuous act. Seen from the start. The space you didn't know you could have.

Nothing but —
the vision what's real the essential yours the vision
Selected work
St. Pete Barbers
2026 · Commercial · St. Petersburg

St. Pete Barbers

800 sq ft of raw commercial space built into a fully realized, woman-owned barbershop. Custom walnut millwork walls with six integrated barber stations, intentionally appointed finishes, and polished concrete floors — designed and built by one hand, start to finish.

This client had a feeling, but not the blueprint. The job was to translate the felt experience into a clear vision and build it materially — from the first sketch to the final trim, nothing lost along the way.

Commercial Full design-build Custom millwork Walnut St. Petersburg
Process & build
The plan Grinding floors Wall going up Walnut cabinets Mid-build Miter saw Banquette build Bathroom vanity Shed framing
About

The constraint is the concept.

Lauter is a boutique design-build studio founded on the belief that the constraint is the concept — that the greatest creativity gets pushed out of corners, and that the best spaces are found inside the problem, not around it.

Every project is held by one vision from the first conversation to the final finish. Design and build as one continuous act. Nothing handed off. Nothing diluted.

Lauter specializes in residential and commercial work that honors what's already there — the bones of a space, the history of a structure, the soul of a room — and builds toward what it could be. Wood is the primary material and the first love. Older construction is not a liability. It's the whole point.

Every space has a logic to it. Let's find it and build it.

Becca Reed, Owner/Founder
St. Petersburg, FL

Let's make something
real.

Tell me about your space. What it is, what it could be, what's in the way. I'll tell you what I see.