A few of the things Richmond homeowners ask me most.
Choose the Design Intensive if you want a whole room designed from the floor plan up. It's a bigger commitment and it usually runs over a few months. A Design Session is better if you're stuck on one thing, like a paint color or a wallpaper, or you're doing a small project yourself and want a designer's eye on it. Sessions are hourly. Some are a single hour and some run over a few weeks. If you're not sure, book a discovery call. It's free, takes about twenty minutes, and helps you figure out which design package is best for you.
Both include the measuring, floor plans, sourcing, mood boards, 3D renderings, and a final presentation with real samples you can see and touch. With Full Service I place every order, track it, handle the freight and receiving, coordinate the trades, and style everything into place on install day. With Design Only I hand you the finished design with every piece linked and ready to order, plus a guide showing exactly where it all goes, and you order and implement at your own pace.
Full Service is built around finishing a complete room, so it carries a minimum furnishings spend of $30,000 for a typical sized main room like a family room, primary bedroom, or dining room. There's no minimum purchasing requirement for a Design Only package or an hourly Design Session.
On Full Service, yes. Placing the orders, tracking the freight, and handling any damage claims is the service. On Design Only you buy everything yourself. During an hourly session I'll sometimes purchase custom pieces for you, like window treatments or upholstery, because those come through trade only workrooms you can't buy from directly.
Yes. An hour is a low commitment way to work together and see if we're a good fit. If it grows into a bigger project, we'll talk about moving into a Design Intensive and I'll send you a proposal for that scope.
The consultation is $150 for an hour in your home. I take rough measurements, look at how you actually use the space, and we talk through style, function, budget, and timeline. Within a few days you'll get a written proposal personalized to your project, with your exact design fee and a full scope of work. That fee covers the visit itself and is not credited toward the project.
Yes, and I'd encourage it if a piece is sentimental, high quality, or you just love it. Tell me at the consultation what's staying and I'll design around it.
My pricing depends on the scope of the project. Design Sessions are $150 an hour. The Design Intensive, which is a complete room design, is a flat design fee scaled to the size of your project. When you reach out I'll send you my full rates, and after our in-home consultation you'll get a written proposal with your exact design fee and a full scope of work.
I'm based in Midlothian and work throughout the greater Richmond area, including Short Pump, Glen Allen, Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover, Ashland, Mechanicsville, and Powhatan. I know the Robious corridor and surrounding Midlothian neighborhoods especially well. If your home is within about 45 minutes of Richmond, I can almost certainly help.
Two. The Design Intensive is a complete room design, and you choose how much of the execution you want to hand off. With full service I handle the sourcing, ordering, trade coordination, delivery, and install day. With design only you get the same complete design and you place the orders yourself, on your own timeline. The Design Session is hourly time with me on whatever your project needs, like paint colors, wallpaper, materials and finishes, space planning, interior styling, or custom window treatments.
It depends on the scope and on current lead times for furniture, custom pieces, and trades, which can shift from season to season. A Design Session often wraps up in a few weeks. A Design Intensive takes longer, and a whole-home project longer still. I'll give you an estimated timeline before we start so you know what to expect.
It comes down to scope and licensing. A licensed interior designer can alter the structure of a space, pull construction permits, and produce structural CAD drawings and blueprints. As an interior decorator, I focus on the surfaces, finishes, layout, furnishings, and decoration of a room.
Both. I lean toward warm, layered interiors with character and heart, where pattern and color earn their place. I love rooms that feel collected rather than staged. But every project starts with the family who lives there. Your home should feel like you.
On full service projects, I coordinate closely with the painters, installers, window treatment workrooms, upholsterers, and trades a project requires. I'm not a general contractor, so in most cases you'll contract with and pay those trades directly, but I handle the design-side logistics such as defining scope, scheduling, building realistic timelines, and making sure everyone has the information they need to do their part well. On Design Only projects and hourly sessions, you receive the complete design and you hire and coordinate any contractors yourself.
Yes, and I love it. My husband and I remodeled a 1920s Richmond home ourselves, so the quirks of older houses, like plaster walls, transom doors, narrow staircases, and non-square rooms, are familiar territory. Good design for an older home works with what's already there instead of covering it up.
A rough sense of the spaces you want to address, a ballpark budget range (even "somewhere between $X and $Y"), your timeline, and a few inspiration images you love. Pinterest boards, magazine pages, or screenshots are all fine. Ahead of our first meeting I'll also send you a short questionnaire so I can get to know your family, how you use your space day to day, what's working, what isn't, and the styles and details you're drawn to. You don't need to have it all figured out. That's my job.
I hold a Professional Certificate in Interior Decorating from the University of Richmond, and my capstone project was named the best of 2026 by the Richmond chapter of the IFDA (International Furnishings and Design Association). My undergraduate degree is from the University of Virginia. Before design, I worked as a pediatric ICU and operating room nurse. Nursing gave me precision and a deep attentiveness to how a home affects the people living in it, and I brought both with me.
Yes, and it's close to my heart. My daughter uses a wheelchair, and adapting our own home so it truly works for her has been one of the most meaningful projects of my life. Small changes to doorways, clearances, flooring, bathroom layouts, and finishes can make an enormous day-to-day difference for a family. If your home needs to work differently for you or someone you love, I would be honored to help you design a space that meets your needs without sacrificing style.