Photorealistic Interior Designer — Garage Transformation Brand

SummaryMELLOW GARAGE — Designer: Garage Transformation Design Packages (note: mood board linked at bottom)

Mellow Mellow is a premium garage transformation brand based in North County San Diego. We curate complete garage makeovers for design-conscious coastal homeowners — the kind of people who care deeply about every room in their house, including the garage. Our aesthetic is elevated Scandinavian coastal: clean lines, warm natural materials, livable and welcoming. We are explicitly not industrial, not gear-head, not diamond plate. Think indoor-outdoor California living extended into the garage.

Our model is kit-based — we develop a curated product kit paired with a certified GC network for installation. That means your designs are not one-off concepts. They need to be modular and repeatable: a design system a GC can execute reliably across many homes, with flexibility in specific item placement, but consistency in the overall look, product selection, and feel.

What We're Hiring For

We need a designer who can deliver three complete garage design packages. This is not a mood board job, and it is not a purely creative rendering job. It sits squarely at the intersection of both: you need to research and select real, currently purchasable products, verify they are high quality, durable, and appropriate for a garage environment, and then produce photorealistic renderings using those exact items. The end deliverable must both sell a homeowner on the vision and hand a GC a clear picture of exactly what gets installed.

The Three Design Packages

Package 1 — The Addition: The garage as a beautiful bonus room. Assume the homeowner has a shed and attic for bikes and holiday storage — this garage is lean on visible storage. Cabinets and organization are present but understated and largely concealed. The goal is a space the whole family actually wants to spend time in. Renderings must show multiple scenes: kids playing on the floor, car parked in, car out with the full room visible, a desk setup functioning as a home office, and an entertaining scene with adults and guests. Deliver for both 2-car and 3-car garage footprints.

Package 2 — The Addition, Equipped: Same livable, design-forward family room feel as The Addition, but built for a family that needs serious storage — bikes, holiday decorations, sports gear, all of it. The design challenge is making heavy storage still look beautiful and intentional rather than cluttered. Both packages can and should include personality pieces like surfboard racks that feel native to the Mellow brand. Same multi-scene rendering set as Package 1. Deliver for both 2-car and 3-car footprints.

Package 3 — The Wellness Bay: Designed for a minimum two-car garage. One car bay remains a fully functional car space. The other becomes a dedicated wellness area. Source ceiling-mounted options (TRX anchor point, pull-up bar), a full-length body mirror, and a floor surface you determine works best for a space that accommodates both a parked car and a workout zone — whether that's a coated floor, interlocking tile, LVP, or a combination. Also source any other wellness-appropriate items that would make sense to retail as part of a Mellow kit (cold plunge if space allows, etc.). Do not source weights or traditional gym machines — the homeowner brings those. Deliver for both 2-car and 3-car footprints.

Product Sourcing Requirements (All Three Packages)

For every item in the design you must:

Confirm it is currently available for purchase

Verify it is high quality, built to last, and appropriate for a garage environment (humidity, temperature swings, vehicle traffic where applicable)

Confirm the aesthetic is cohesive with the overall Mellow design direction

Provide a direct purchase link

Use that exact product in your renderings — no stand-ins or visual approximations

Cabinets specifically: source off-the-shelf products designed and warranted for garage environments (brands like NewAge Products, Gladiator, Vipp, or equivalent). Custom or semi-custom cabinetry is not in scope — we need products a GC can order and install from existing inventory. Note that it will likely be a challenge to find off-shelf items that fit the boho coastal chic brand aesthetic.

Product categories to source across all applicable packages:

Slatwall panels and accessories

Shelving (multiple types: open, floating, heavy-duty, decorative)

Overhead and ceiling storage where appropriate

Off-the-shelf garage-grade cabinets (flagship item — source premium, not builder-grade)

TV and mount, or frame TV equivalent

Aesthetic wall paneling (decorative, not slatwall — for visual warmth and interest)

Surfboard racks and board display shelving

Lighting fixtures (overhead and accent)

Floor coating color palette (polyurea/polyaspartic — provide multiple color options)

Full-length body mirror (Package 3)

Retractable screen system (allows garage door to remain fully open while containing kids and pets — find the best available product and show it in renderings)

Ceiling-mounted wellness anchors: TRX strap anchor, pull-up bar (Package 3)

***Any additional items you identify that belong in a complete, livable Mellow garage

Rendering Requirements

Renderings must be photorealistic — the standard is that a homeowner looks at the image and genuinely imagines living in it. Software demo-style 3D renders are not acceptable. Each scene must reflect the actual sourced products, not generic placeholders. Multiple scenes are required per package as described above.

Final Deliverable For each of the three packages:

Complete product kit — item name, direct purchase link, and unit price

Multiple photorealistic scene renderings using the exact sourced products

Brief design rationale (one short paragraph) explaining the intent and how it fits the Mellow aesthetic

Bring Your Own Eye

The direction above gives you the framework — brand aesthetic, product categories, scene requirements — but we don't want to over-prescribe. We're looking for someone who brings a genuine point of view to this. If you see a product category we haven't mentioned that belongs in a Mellow garage, include it. If you have a layout idea, a material combination, or a design detail that elevates the space in a way we haven't thought of, we want to see it. The best outcome here is not a designer who executes our brief to the letter — it's a designer who uses our brief as a starting point and brings something we wouldn't have arrived at on our own. Surprise us.

Mood Board: https://pin.it/p37JiLAea

To Apply Please share examples of past work that demonstrates both product sourcing and photorealistic rendering — ideally in the same project. We are looking for someone who can do both, not one or the other.