Interior  Services and Furnishings

Interior design is not just a luxury service. It is an investment in your home and the quality of your daily livng.  Remember, everything is affected by your surroundings: your mood, your comfort, your experience.  Why not ensure that the place where you spend most of your time is beautiful, comfortable,  and functional?

A professionally designed  interior adds value to your home and enhances the lives of those who live there.   Your home is likely the largest asset you will ever purchase in your lifetime, an asset that has great potential to appreciate as time goes on. Furnishing it with high quality window treatments, hardware, flooring, wallcovering, lighting, countertops, and cabinetry can only build the value of your investment, enabling you to realize more profit in the event that you sell your home.  If you intend to pass your home down through the family, we can assist you in restoration and preservation, further protecting your investment.

Creating functional homes for independent living

For some clients, our services are an absolute necessity.  We have worked with clients who are physically impaired and require changes to their home in order for them to function with ease and convenience.  These clients call on us to help make the right choices to meet their needs, perform the work to make their lives easier and create spaces that allow them to live independently.

Historical Preservation

Although Interiors for Living can design for any style, we have a special talent for historical preservation.  Using our expertise and resources, we  restore period pieces and historical buildings, returning them to their former grandeur.  We  recognize the value in existing collections of furniture and art and increase their value with historically accurate restoration and upgraded materials. 

Furnishings

Draperies/ Fabrics

Custom window treatments can change a room.  That's why we pride ourselves in creating styles for windows that are unique to each of our clients.  Our custom draperies and soft window fashions not only look timeless, they are of a superior quality that lasts for years.  Over time, our elegant window fashions can also save you the money and trouble of frequently replacing curtains and blinds.

To ensure the highest quality service and product for your investment in custom draperies, we work with you to select the perfect textiles, trimmings, and designs.  We then oversee construction in the workrooms and specify luxurious insulated linings.  Beautiful drapery hardware, professionally installed, is the finishing touch.

And it's not only our clients who can attest to the quality of our work, we have been called upon for years to collaborate with other professional designers to specify and oversee the fabrication and installation of custom draperies and window fashions for their clients.

Upholstery

Many people think they must sacrifice comfort for style, but we design our custom upholstered furniture to feel as beautiful as it looks.   When we work with you, we insist you sit on several different comfortable sofas to find your personal comfort level!  And to make sure your sofa is comfortable for others in the family, we can even specify cushion construction on a sofa to have different comfort levels on each side.

If you have a specific sofa style in mind, but you would prefer another color or pattern, we can take care of finding the fabric and ordering of the upholstered furniture.

Furniture

Can't find a dining room table to go with your treasured chairs or the right accent table for a certain corner of your living room?   We can visit the showrooms at the Boston Design Center with you to find the perfect furniture for your home.

We also have the resources to discover antique or period furnishings which can create a focal point in any home, office, or historic building.  For a truly special piece, we can call on our trusted craftsmen to create custom furniture for you.

Reupholstery

Your old upholstered furniture can be updated with a fresh fabric. The frame can be resized, padded differently, skirt design changed or eliminated, resulting in a totally new piece on your well made furniture frame. Our upholsterer will strip the old materials from your piece down to the frame and rebuild it to our specifications and your comfort level. Your furniture will look and feel new again.

Tile /Granite/ Marble/ Stone for Kitchens, Baths, and Floors

We love to work with your architect or builder to find the perfect materials for your walls, floors and counters, those permanent installations that will compliment your design style and concept. What I do is to narrow the choices for you and take away the confusion since there are too many products on the market from which to choose. I can create a tile and materials color board for your builder which will specify where the various materials should be installed.

Carpet / Area Rugs

Floor coverings take a lot of wear and tear from everyday living. Your special needs for children, family members and pets reflect the quality and style we specify. There are endless choices, designs, materials, and levels of quality. We can provide appropriate samples and will not stop until you find a floor covering you will love and that will compliment the design concept of your room. We can design and specify custom carpets and area rugs.

Blinds / Shades / Shutters

Hunter Douglas Window Fashions are what some of the most beautiful windows in New England are wearing! A picture may be worth a thousand words but actions speak louder than words . For that reason, Interiors For Living has chosen Hunter Douglas as the brand of choice. They have developed new products and continue to extend their lines with more fashion forward fabrics and colors in additions to options such as cord free shades and blinds for child safety. There are motorization systems that interface with today's smart home technology, hard wired /pre-construction or battery operated remote control. Whether you are looking for blinds, shades or shutters you can have confidence in your purchase because Hunter Douglas will stand behind these products with a Lifetime Limited Warranty.

Light Fixtures/Lamps

Our resources include a wide variety of lighting vendors so that we can find the perfect light fixture or lamp to make a statement in your room or to just provide the necessary lighting to spotlight a piece of art or fireplace wall . We collaborate with lighting designers to locate  light fixtures to create the right  amount of light is needed in each area.

If you have a wonderful lamp but the lamp shade is dated  we can find the perfect shade to compliment both the lamp and the space where it will be placed.  We can rewire old lamps and are able to  design custom lamps from a wide variety of materials and shades.

Art and Accessories are personal and are either the inspiration for your room or the finishing touch. If you have a collection of something you love or a very special piece of art, we can design your room around it. Pillows to add comfort and style to your furniture or bed can be fabricated in our workroom. We love down and feather pillow forms as they last for years .