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rowing up in West Bloomfield, Elliott 
Disner had a favorite pastime: “I 
loved going on walks in my neigh-
borhood with my family, analyzing all the 
homes and how I could make each one bet-
ter,
” he says.
He got his first taste of design when, as a 
16-year-old student at Groves High School 
in need of gas money, he got a job at the first 
Beyond Juicery + Eatery in Birmingham. 
Starting out as a barista, he “organically grew 
with the company,
” says Disner, now 30 and 
living in Clarkston. 
By the time he was graduating high school, 
Beyond Juicery was growing exponentially, 
which proved to be a good opportunity for 
Disner to get experience in running a small 
business — he got his hands on everything 
from designing smoothie cups and bottle 
labels to project management to, eventu-
ally, helping to open new franchise stores 
and their most recent brand, Detroit Wing 
Company.
Pursuing his passion for design, Disner 
earned a degree in architectural design 
from Lawrence Technological University 

in Southfield. Not a fully licensed architect, 
Disner has the ability to create designs and 
articulate them into user-friendly 3D render-
ings, a skill he used to freelance design and 
project manage more than 70 restaurants. 
All the while, friends would ask him to come 
over, take a look at a room or a prospective 
renovation and ask for ideas — or help seeing 
their own ideas.
“I said no for the longest time because it 
was hard to find time to work on these proj-
ects,
” Disner says. “But, finally, I said ‘yes’ — 
and it turned into its own little beast.
”
He decided to formalize this venture, and 
in 2022, he launched Maple Renders (mapler-
enders.com), a boutique design company that 
provides clients with 3D visualization of proj-
ects of all sizes. His niche is a service that is 
somewhere “in between a napkin sketch and 
a full-service firm,
” Disner says, “giving access 
to high design at an affordable price.
” 
“
A client might say, ‘Hey Elliott, I’m think-
ing of redoing my bathroom — before I 
spend thousands and thousands of dollars 
on an architect, I’
d like to see what it might 
look like.
’ That’s where I come in — I can help 

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A garage 
addition in 
Birmingham 
features a loft 
upstairs and 
pool outside.

Elliott Disner brings fl
 at design to life.

LYNNE KONSTANTIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Elliott Disner, 
owner of Maple 
Renders

