Your Favorite Room By Cathy Zaeske

Cathy is an absolute joy to work with! She consulted on my kitchen renovation, and really helped us understand what we were looking for in terms of overall style, color schemes, lighting and hardware. I love that Cathy was able to see our inspo pictures and listen to our likes and dislikes and distill it down into ideas for our own space. Can’t wait to work with her again on future projects - we couldn’t recommend more!

We have been in The same house for 30 years and we wanted a change. We are retirees and due to some medical reasons the layout needed to be adjusted. While we were at it I wanted to update some of our tired things and shake it up a little. I didn’t really know what direction to take. Cathy came into our home and helped us see different opportunities and think outside the box. She showed us some examples on her laptop that really helped we’re very happy with our new living room. Thank you Cathy

Cathy Zaeske is an incredibly talented interior design professional and such a delight to work with! I cannot recommend her highly enough. She has a beautiful passion to complement her talent and can put together a proposal for a space in your home that is ‘designed with intention’. There’s nothing like watching her get excited about making you a plan and finding the right pieces for your taste and your home. She is inspiring and she will inspire you Maybe you are an expat with furniture from different stages of life all mixed together in your home or perhaps you have been meaning to get around to getting some new furniture or art but are just completely overwhelmed by where to start? I recommend giving Cathy a call ☎️

I highly recommend Cathy/Your Favorite Room! It was an absolute pleasure to work with her. She had brilliant design ideas, thoughtful recommendations, and really helpful guides/advice. I had never worked with a designer before and Cathy made me feel comfortable, listened to, and truly cared about. I appreciated how she worked with our budget and sourced a lot of feasible options for us. She was passionate and it was clear that she takes great care and pride in her work and designs. I highly recommend working with her without reservation!

We hadn't used an interior designer before but were moving into a new house with an awkward shaped living room and really wanted to make sure that we had a layout that worked for us. Cathy gave us some great ideas for layout and built in furniture and also was able to suggest some fab light fittings that we could get in Switzerland. She was also more than happy to respond to all my follow up queries!

This was my first time using an interior designer and I wasn't quite sure what to expect especially as the design process was going to be done virtually. Cathy was detailed and took time to understand our needs. She was great to work with and gave our basement a whole new outlook.

To say that I'm design-challenged would be an understatement. We moved into a new place in August with a ton of wood ceilings and I didn't know where to start. Cathy helped me so much. First, she helped me move my existing things around to use the space better. Then she helped me choose some new pieces to bring some light into a dark room. She was just super patient and chill and gave me great ideas that didn't break the bank. Cathy came to our meeting totally prepared with vision boards, images, and links to products to buy. She knows what's available in Switzerland too so she can really save you a lot of unnecessary trips to nowhere. I'm looking forward to working with Cathy again when I finally get around to fixing up the rest of the house.

My apartment layout is a bit odd to say the least, and needed some imagination to figure out how to make a bunch of oddly oriented rooms into a cozy home. Cathy helped me all along the way -- by brainstorming ideas and then coming up with some sample layouts to help me visualize what the space could be. She helped guide me to various pieces that could really bring the rooms together and was always quick to give me advice or feedback if I needed it! I really loved working with Cathy and would definitely recommend her keen eye to anyone looking to revamp their space!

I have experienced Cathy as a highly professional design consultant. She quickly understood my needs and wants and offered design solutions that I had never thought of before. She was a wonderful person to engage with, so I always looked forward to our next conversation. Versatility, professionalism and customer friendly are key words how I would describe her as design consultant.

Cathy really took the time to understand our style and prioritize our needs. She is extremely efficient and fun to work with. She helped us solve some tricky design areas, with creative and practical solutions for furniture, lighting and colors. Cathy also has a large range of sourcing ideas across a range of budgets which means that her recommendations can be practically applied. We took on all Cathy's advice and are really happy and comfortable in our finished home!!! Thank you!!!

Living as an expat in a foreign country, I encountered quite a few challenges when coming to style the new space for our family. Our new home is a rental, which meant some elements could not be changed, and needed "working around" them. The other main challenge was shopping and sourcing items - I didn't even know where to start! I was so fortunate to have Cathy guide me through the process and work through the specific challenges our space posed. Cathy's main talent included using many visual platforms, from pinterest to mood board creation to 3d imaging, to sourcing unique items that worked well with the space and with our previously owned items in a perfect mix. Cathy is so gifted and a true professional - she understood my vision and made it a reality, and I whole heartedly recommend working with her!

I’ve hired Cathy numerous times between 2013 and 2019 for various projects. The most recent time was helping me design the first floor of my new home after I moved to Charleston, SC. I wanted to incorporate some beachy accents into my decor now that I was living near the ocean. I’m always impressed with Cathy’s creativity. I also appreciate how she’s willing to incorporate pieces I already own into her designs. She truly is a designer for “real people” and is always mindful of my budget. I really can’t say enough good things about her and her business.