What are the responsibilities and job description for the Interior Design Assistant - Part-time Carpenter position at Cathy Hobbs Design Recipes?
Type: Part-Time
A rare hybrid role: the eye of a stylist, the hands of a carpenter
You'll work inside our Creative Looks department at Highland Passive House, the first multi-use Passive House Certified warehouse in North America, a stunning design center set on four acres surrounded by orchards in the Hudson Valley.
Cathy Hobbs Design Recipes (CHDR) is led by 5-time Emmy Award–winning television host, author, and HGTV Design Star finalist Cathy Hobbs. We're consistently ranked among the Top 10 staging companies in the U.S. and Top 5 in Manhattan, with honors including Top 10 Luxury Vacant Staging and Top 10 Short-Term Rental Staging of the Year. We specialize exclusively in real estate staging, styling, and short-term rental and vacation home design, not traditional interior design, so the best fit is someone who lives and breathes visual merchandising and loves working with their hands.
What you'll do:
- Build creative looks, vignettes, and accessory groupings for high-end stagings.
- Pull and curate accessories alongside our design team.
- Help maintain the eye and standard that defines the CHDR brand.
- Repair, reinforce, and restore wood furniture — joinery, gluing, clamping, minor rebuilds.
- Touch up and repair artwork and framing.
- Keep our inventory install-ready, sturdy, and pristine.
- Organize and maintain our accessories library and curated collection.
- Kit and stage accessories so the team can pull quickly and beautifully.
- Support both the Hudson Valley and Manhattan design teams as needed.
Who you are (both required):
- You have a genuine eye for styling, visual merchandising, or prop styling — ideally in home decor.
- You have real carpentry skills — you can repair, reinforce, and restore wood furniture, and you're comfortable with basic woodworking tools and techniques.
- You're a self-starter who brings fresh ideas to inventory and creative looks.
- You're impeccably organized and take pride in a beautiful, orderly space.
- You're not shy about physical work — staging and restoration are hands-on.
- You keep up with trends in interior design and home staging.
A plus, but not required: an AAS or BFA in Interior Design; prior home staging or prop styling experience; visual merchandising experience specifically in home decor (not fashion).
How to apply
Learn more at www.cathyhobbs.com.
About Cathy Hobbs Design Recipes:
Cathy Hobbs Design Recipes is one of the premiere staging companies serving the Tri-State Area. CHDR maintains an expansive warehouse, which includes a curated collection of furniture, artwork, chandeliers, accessories, and drapery. Cathy Hobbs Design Recipes is consistently ranked among the Top 10 Home Staging Companies in The United States and among the Top 5 in Manhattan. The firm has been awarded honors such as Top 10 Luxury Vacant Staging and Top 10 Short-term Rental Staging of The Year. Additionally, company founder/head designer, Cathy Hobbs has been consistently honored as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Real Estate Staging by the Real Estate Staging Association (RESA). Inspired by our core values of collaboration, team work, quality, consistency and innovation, our company goes beyond a traditional home staging approach and business model. With our own in-house production company, CHDR offers brokers (included in its staging packages) the option of hosted property tours, broadcast quality virtual property tours in addition to interactive virtual 360 tours, all professionally shot and edited and provided to brokers for their own self-promotion and usage.
Salary : $22 - $24