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Martha O’Hara Interiors
Meet Martha O’Hara and her creative team of interior designers—all visionaries who gather their clients’ ideas—and weave into spaces the proper styles, patterns, and colors of window fashions, furniture, and accessories that will work in the architecture of a space.
“We look closely at the way our clients live their lives, both inside and out of their home, and try to emulate their lifestyle with design,” Martha says. “It’s proven amazingly successful at both giving clients the look they want, and extending it beyond their expectations. When a client trusts you implicitly, when there is an open and respectful exchange of ideas and collaboration—that is truly where good design excels to great.”
While Martha hones in on her clients’ instincts, she also introduces them to idioms that they may never have considered—helping her clients discover the elements that make a house a home. “An interior designer is as vital as an architect, a builder, or a remodeler and designers can elevate the entire project when used to their full abilities,” she says. In fact, it is the caliber of her designers and the value her firm brings to the table that sets Martha and her firm apart.
“Two of the greatest misnomers regarding our firm are that we only work on large projects, and that we are too expensive anyway,” she says. “In fact, most of our clients come to us with a single room as their focus. In addition, whatever we purchase for you is usually well below retail cost. That, combined with the fact that we do not typically charge hourly fees, makes us incredibly cost effective.”
Martha O’Hara Interiors
952.908.3150
www.oharainteriors.com
Q: Do you have a favorite design style?
A: My personal favorite is always changing. At my heart of hearts, I’m still a Southern girl; so I do love white enameled woodwork, colorful pallets, and large welcoming entryways with central staircases. However, with each project that arises, I find my current favorite shifting in one direction or another.
Casa Verde Design
Casa Verde Design specializes in kitchen and bath design. As designers, Rosemary Merrill and Liz Schupanitz take into consideration the architecture of the home, along with the client’s style and needs. Merrill says, “It creates a great synergy between us, resulting in a synthesis of their ideas and our design sensibilities and knowledge.” The firm’s thoughtful, collaborative approach to design with clients, architects, contractors and vendors, creates the best end result for the client.
As kitchen and bath designers, it is exciting to come up with design ideas and solutions that our clients had not imagined,” says Schupanitz. “The best part is making their new space functional and flow better, while also making it beautiful.”
Casa Verde Design
911 W. 50th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55419
612.353.4401
www.casaverdedesign.com
Q: Do you have a favorite design style?
A: We welcome a variety of styles. Our taste leans toward a classically designed home with a sense of timeless style, that is simple yet sophisticated, as well as inviting and warm.
DesignWorks
Gloria Stafford, owner of DesignWorks offers a unique perspective of how exceptionally designed interiors can literally transform a space.
“Solving a design problem is like peeling back the layers of an onion to uncover the ideal solution,” Gloria says. “Skilled designers are accomplished at navigating through the myriad of choices and options to arrive at the ultimate resolution.”
Gloria and her team achieve these inspired results by vigilantly observing their surroundings and absorbing all that they can from all external sources.
“Designers must be able to produce a result that the clients themselves could not have realized,” Gloria says. “I consider the greatest compliment to be when a client says to me, ‘I could have never envisioned this myself.’”
DesignWorks
Gloria Stafford
952.715.0880
www.designworksmn.com
Q: Do you have a favorite design style?
A: I think the majority of people feel most comfortable in a space that is not too formal, not too stark, and not too overpowering. Extremes in design can be very difficult to live with.
Eminent Interior Design, Ltd.
Working collaboratively with clients is the cornerstone of Eminent Interior Design. Brandi Hagen, principal designer at Eminent strives to understand each client’s vision—bringing that vision to life and making it real.
“We’re passionate about helping people create whatever it is they are imagining,” says Brandi. “Often they know what they want, but they don’t quite know how to get there. Our clients rely on us to fill in the blanks.”
Brandi and her team strive to provide a finished project that people simply love to live in.
“Most people take their home very personally. They’re tuned in to how their house makes them feel,” Brandi says. “Our role is to create a design that’s fundamentally theirs—but better than they could manage on their own.”
Eminent Interior Design, Ltd.
Brandi Hagen
6478 Westchester Circle • Minneapolis, MN 55427
612.767.1242
www.eminentid.com
LiLu Interiors
If you’re a person of many dimensions, the stale style labels just don’t stick. That’s where Lisa Peck, principal at LiLu Interiors and her award-winning staff of designers, come in. Lisa, along with LuAnne Silvia, ASID, Emily Anderson, Allied member ASID, and their newest designer, Christina Winter, Allied member ASID, believe that the interior design journey is as important as the destination. No project is too big or detail is too small for the LiLu team.
“We are passionate about working collaboratively,” Lisa says. “The LiLu design team starts with our client and their dreams. We take care of the details and engage our clients in the process, ensuring they have fun along the way.”
LiLu Interiors
612.354.3271
www.liluinteriors.com
Q: What inspires you the most?
A: Our clients. We love that each client's personality, each home's architecture and each project is unique.
David Heide Design Studio
David Heide and his Studio create designs that are functional, compelling and timeless—not just based on the latest trend. The Studio’s approach integrates both architecture and interior design into a cohesive, richly-detailed whole. Their projects range from simple to grand, historic to modern, but they specialize in making the old new again.
“We love the challenge of finding the right balance between historically-influenced aesthetics and modern function,” David says. “We believe in ‘honoring the past, anticipating the future’ and we listen to the client to help tell the story of the residence. Our goal is to work together to write the next chapter and make the residence a viable and vibrant place for generations to come.”
David Heide Design Studio
612.337.5060 x24
www.dhdstudio.com
Mint
Maureen Haggerty
allied member asid
651.332.9609
maureen@mint-design.biz
www.mint-design.biz
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