Commercial Interior Design Studio in Marietta, GA

Club bar lounge with pale oak columns, tan leather swivel chairs at round tables and a backlit bar beyond

A Commercial Interior Design Studio

Spaces That Tell Your Story

Melissa Banko in a black dress, standing beside a studio wall pinned with tear sheets, sketches and material samples

Welcome!

A Message From Our Founder

Banko Design is a boutique interior design studio specializing in senior living, private club, and multifamily communities.

We are known for delivering thoughtfully designed environments that balance residential warmth with commercial performance: spaces that feel considered, timeless, and perform at every level. Our work goes beyond decoration, thoughtfully shaping the architecture of a space through planning, materiality, millwork, lighting, detailing, and FF&E to create environments that are as functional as they are beautiful.

Our work is guided by experience, shaped by collaboration, and executed with a level of precision that ensures consistency from concept through final installation.

Our Expertise

Library with sage green built-in shelving, orange wingback chairs on a blue checked rug and a drum pendant overhead

Senior Living

We take a resident-first approach to senior living design. It's a perspective that prioritizes the people who will live in the space every day, how it supports their routines, their comfort, and their sense of home.

Our work is rooted in creating environments that are both highly functional and quietly refined, spaces that feel familiar, dignified, and enduring. While trends and outside perceptions may shift, we remain focused on what matters most: the lived experience of the resident.

Because at the end of the day, that is who the environment is truly for, and who it is meant to serve.

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Wood panelled club room with lit display shelving either side of a marble fireplace and cream armchairs on a checked rug

Private Club

A thoughtfully designed clubhouse often defines whether a club resonates with its membership. From refined updates to ground-up developments, we create interiors that feel considered, enduring, and appropriately tailored.

We specialize in spaces that attract and retain members while remaining timeless, not trend-driven.

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Clubhouse kitchen with a navy island under an iron ring chandelier, a stacked stone fireplace and a beamed ceiling

Multifamily

Our work is defined by a balance of refinement and longevity: spaces that feel considered today and endure well beyond first impressions.

Through a tailored approach to local context and disciplined investment, we shape environments that are both distinctive and lasting. Supporting strong lease-up, sustained occupancy, and a resident experience that remains consistently well received.

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Featured Projects

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Active adult community two storey lounge with white panelled walls, an iron balustered stair, a grey sofa and a marble table

Amira BloomingtonBloomington, MN

Senior living great room with a black grand piano at tall windows beside a cream sofa with navy bird print pillows

Varenita of West CobbAcworth, GA

Private club lounge with a green velvet sofa, tufted leather ottoman and lit shelves flanking a fireplace on a plaid rug

The Rose Downtown ClubAthens, GA

Lounge with coral patterned wallpaper, mint velvet swivel chairs around a round ottoman and a brass chandelier over an orange rug

Notes from our clients

“My first interaction with Banko was when they rescued me on another project… I was introduced to Melissa and she stepped right in. I was so impressed by what she pulled off both in terms of the product, the timeliness, just the resource she was that I started using her for most of our interior design work thereafter.”

Katherine Mosley, Partner, Tribridge Residential

“They do a great job listening, but also asking the right questions. Pointed questions. They're not afraid to ask those questions and push back when needed… We really appreciate the fact that Banko Design pushes back when needed, and candidly does so. We appreciate that. Feels like more of a partnership.”

Ashish Bagley, Manager, Tribridge Residential

“If you know Melissa, she's just full of energy, but extremely smart. And I thought that her whole team follows that example. You know, just high energy, but extreme detail in each of their categories. The kids are really going to enjoy [this renovation]. It will not only be a great experience for the students, but also the teachers… and this is going to be a special place for them. No one has seen a pre-school like this… with the carpet and the lighting and the glass, there's whole sections just designated for imagination and exploring. All of it put together really makes for a cool experience.”

Dana Ridenour, Assistant Head of School, Finance & Operations, Mt. Pisgah

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Studio moodboard wall of fabric, tile and tear-sheet samples, with two designers pinning up material options

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