Geya Antonova and COZY. Design: An Interior Designer Who Stays on Site
Most interior designers hand over a set of drawings and step back. Geya Antonova, founder of COZY. Design Studio in Sofia, built her practice around doing the opposite. Since founding the studio in 2019, she has treated the construction site as part of the job, not a separate phase someone else manages.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. A design that looks perfect in a 3D visualization can run into real problems once contractors start work: a wall that cannot move the way the plan assumes, a material that behaves differently once installed, a detail that only makes sense once you see the actual light in the room. Designers who never visit the site during execution miss these moments, and clients pay for it later in change orders and delays.
Why field experience changes what a designer can promise
COZY. offers full turnkey execution in Sofia, meaning Geya and her team coordinate directly with contractors, suppliers, and tradespeople on site rather than handing off a finished design and walking away. This hands-on involvement lets the studio catch problems early, adjust details in real time, and make sure what gets built actually matches what was approved on paper.
COZY. positions itself in the upper-middle to upper end of the market, and its rates reflect that. That positioning is tied directly to the studio's hands-on experience with reconstruction and turnkey projects, and to the technical precision that comes from being on site through the whole build, not just at the drawing board.
It also shapes what COZY. offers beyond design itself. The studio's scope covers concept and space planning, photorealistic 3D visualizations, full technical drawings, budgeting, and supplier sourcing, followed by turnkey delivery for clients who want the whole renovation managed for them in Sofia. Clients elsewhere in Bulgaria, or those who prefer to manage their own contractors, can still work with COZY. on design projects and consultations, available online across the country.
A portfolio built on that approach
Over more than 80 completed projects, COZY.'s work spans private homes, retail chains such as Silver Court across six stores, the VivaDental dental clinic, and office interiors for international companies including Hyperzon, Evolution, and Smartico. Each project carries the same working style: a designer who stays close to execution instead of disappearing after the concept stage.
For clients, that translates into fewer surprises. Decisions get made with full information about what a space and its materials can actually do, not just how they render in a visualization. It is a slower, more involved way of working than handing off a file, but it is the reason COZY. describes what it does as design that gets built the way it was meant to look, not just design that gets approved.
More on Geya Antonova and the studio's projects is available at cozydesign.bg.