Ligia Cisneros Brings Bold Color and Sculptural Form to Miami Homes

Ligia Cisneros is an interior designer in Miami, Florida, and one of the two owners and principal designers of No. 9 Studio, the residential and commercial design firm she runs with her partner, Anasofia Guardia. Her own work is bold, sculptural and unapologetically colorful, drawn to funky shapes, saturated color and Amsterdam's creative spirit.

The studio is young. The experience behind it is not. Cisneros brings more than 13 years across interior design and the furniture industry, built on a bachelor's degree in interior design from SCAD, the Savannah College of Art and Design.

From the furniture floor to a studio of her own

Her career began in architecture. Cisneros started as an interior designer in the Miami office of Perkins&Will, where she was part of the design team on the Cisneros Group's Miami headquarters, an office built around a modern art collection. She then spent more than six years as an interior designer and sales representative at Clima Home in Miami, and more than two at Elemento Living, a luxury outdoor design studio in Miami Beach, working with interior designers, landscape architects and specifiers on outdoor projects from schematic design to order.

Cisneros and Guardia met as colleagues in the luxury furniture business, and it was clear early on that they saw rooms the same way while coming at them from different angles. Guardia calls her "one of the most inventive, out-of-the-box thinkers" she knows. They began taking projects on the side, mostly through referrals, in early mornings, late nights and weekends, before formalizing the partnership as a company they own equally.

The name is a small statement of intent. It comes from 999, the angel number of completion and transformation: a fitting sign for a studio that transforms rooms, started by two designers who were changing their own lives to build it. No. 9 Studio celebrated its first year in 2026.

A studio with no house look

There is no single No. 9 signature, and that is the point. The work follows the client, the space and the story, whether the result is tropical modern, minimal, bold or somewhere unexpected. The studio's Instagram puts it in three words: client as muse. Its services run from full-service design, space planning and styling to virtual design, consulting, art direction, staging, project management and procurement.

In a family home in Pinecrest, that meant reworking the children's playrooms, bathrooms and foyer into rooms built for everyday life and able to grow with the family. Olive millwork wraps an arched wood niche with a built-in desk; a 94-square-foot cabana bathroom came out, as the studio put it, playful but polished.

New construction, showrooms and an acrylic table

The portfolio reaches well past Pinecrest. No. 9 Studio designed the interiors of a new custom home in collaboration with The Arko Group, has a new-construction home in Naples underway, and is restoring a 4,064-square-foot, four-bedroom house in Archer, Florida.

The commercial work plays to the partners' furniture years, and to Cisneros's six at Clima Home. For Clima Home's own Royal Botania showroom in Miami, the studio set the Belgian brand's pieces against limewashed grey walls and layers of tropical green. For a custom pool builder's headquarters, it clad the office columns in the same pool tile the builder installs for clients, and centered the conference room on a table made from the acrylic used in its see-through pools.

What comes next

In 2026 the partners moved into a new studio, and a new custom luxury home, the Green Residence, is due in 2027. The longer goal is turnkey work: a client hands over the keys and gets back a finished home, from drawings and millwork to the art on the walls and the last towel.

Followers can keep up with the studio's projects on Instagram, where No. 9 Studio has about 2,400 followers, and with Cisneros at @ligiacisnerosdesign.

Highlights

Who is Ligia Cisneros?

Ligia Cisneros is an interior designer in Miami, Florida, and co-owner and principal designer of No. 9 Studio, with more than 13 years in interior design and the furniture industry, including Perkins&Will, Clima Home and Elemento Living.

Where did Ligia Cisneros study interior design?

She holds a bachelor's degree in interior design from SCAD, the Savannah College of Art and Design.

What does No. 9 Studio design?

Residential and commercial interiors and outdoor spaces, from Pinecrest family homes and new construction to showrooms and offices, based in Miami and working beyond it.