Fringe Benefits Custom Interiors

Our 30 year old home needed an interior facelift. Our builder recommended Fringe Benefits, run by interior designer and contractor Mary Sue Hafey of Monument, CO. We contacted Mary Sue and within a few days she arrived to walk though our home and ask what we wanted to do. We liked her straight forward manner and wonderful ideas, many of which we had not considered but were just right for our house. Within days we were meeting to consider colors; shortly thereafter she led us through the maze of selecting countertops, plumbing fixtures, tile, carpet lighting, etc. We knew she was an award-winning designer, but what really impressed us is that she had the right person to help us with our selection at each showroom and knew as much about the products as the company rep. It was a large project, as almost every surface was updated. New interior paint, carpet, countertops, lighting, hardwood floor additions and refinishing, plumbing upgrades, and a complete re-do of two shower areas with tile and glass doors. We were particularly impressed with her renovation team: exceptional workers, skilled craftsmen, and some of the most polite and lovely people we've ever met. They treated our home with the utmost respect and always cleaned up after each day's work. Mary Sue was present almost every morning to huddle with her team to to discuss that day's plan and resolve any issues that might arise. Throughout the process, Mary Sue kept us fully informed of our progress as well as any glitches encountered and proposed fixes. We had heard many horror stories about renovations, such as you see on television. You have none of that nonsense with Fringe Benefits. We were really amazed at how comfortable we felt during the renovation, and she and her team achieve wonderful results. The skills displayed during our renovation from Mary Sue and her whole team were truly remarkable and far beyond what we expected. Our home is much brighter and more modern. We are delighted with each and every room. Mary Sue Hafey of Fringe Benefits Custom Interiors is smart, thorough, and a simply wonderful person. Her care of us during the renovation was outstanding. We highly recommend her and her team for all your home renovation and interior design needs. We have already recommended her to several of our friends and believe anyone will be happy with Fringe Benefits!

Mary Sue did my kitchen and living room remodel. From the very start, Mary Sue was wonderful to work with! She is professional, personable, and diligent! She got my input, made suggestions, and guided me through every choice that had to be made, pointing out pros and cons of things I would not have thought of. Her subcontractors were clean, professional, dependable, and always arrived on time. Mary Sue was very quick to respond to any details that needed to be changed/corrected, or otherwise taken care of. Her follow-up was very swift and thorough. She worked with me to make sure I was happy with each stage of the remodel. She has great relationships with many of the businesses in town--granite, lighting, furniture, appliances, etc., which made those decisions much easier. The draperies she designed and had made were very high quality and the workmanship on them excellent! I am thrilled with them! I thoroughly enjoyed working with her, and have would enthusiastically refer to her!

Mary Sue is a professional designer who has good decorating ideas. She stayed within my budget and provided oversight for all the work. She updated all of my bathrooms and dining room. I would rehire her for any interior design work.

Mary Sue has done all the draperies, slipcovers, and paint in our home. She worked so well with us on exactly what we wanted and our unique style. We are thrilled with her work and would highly recommend her!

Mary Sue is great to work with on home decorating projects. She has a creative mind and great ideas. She is responsive, responsible, reliable and reasonably priced. She provides a quality job and I definitely recommend her!

MarySue was amazing. We needed someone to guide us along in our kitchen remodel. My husband and I felt stuck and could not seem to agree on much. Then MarySue came in and made it so easy for us to move forward. She had great ideas, ones we had not even thought of. She picked lovely colors and combinations; again, something my husband and I would have stayed stuck on for weeks to months. Her guys were awesome too. Very quick once they started working. I would not hesitate to hire her again for another home project.

Mary Sue worked her magic once again. After our amazing kitchen remodel we knew who to call when it was time to remodel our basement. If I have a vision she makes it happen. She shows up everyday making sure the project stays on track and that we are happy with every choice made. I couldn’t be happier with the results. Her team can do anything! They are always on time, professional, and are truly a pleasure to work with. We always know that things will be done right and in a timely manner! If you need any sort of remodel, call Mary Sue! Thank you so much for everything! Travis and Danielle Morris

Mary Sue & her team did a great job with our complete kitchen and master bathroom remodel. We are truly enjoying everything. Thanks

Mary Sue and her incredible team helped make our vision and hopes of a remodel come true. Eric and Leo and the team were professional, on time, worked hard, cleaned up daily, reliable, and so kind.. I couldn't have hoped for more! I am so in love with our kitchen makeover and whole home update. Mary Sue stayed on top of everything and listens and is not only kind, but knowledgeable and professional and has wonderful contacts, Including for our amazing staircase remodel and hardwood floor refinish. Could not be happier with the final outcome top to bottom. Thank you Mary Sue and team Sincerely, Jeff and Denise Kostenko

Mary Sue and her team did an amazingly beautiful renovation on our master bathroom, kids' bathroom and laundry room. We are very pleased with the final result and super happy with our now modern look and feel. Mary Sue is kind, patient and listened to all of our wants and needs. Her and her team were professional and very pleasant to work with!

MarySue takes beautiful, creative, ideas and seamlessly translates them into finished projects! Love working with her! Her Knowledge and Professionalism are hard to find!

Mary Sue is the ultimate professional. She listened to my ideas for completing window coverings, colors and furniture in my home and helped me achieve the look I wanted. She's easy to work with and makes sure you're happy with the completed project.

It is a pleasure to write a glowing review for Mary Sue Hafey and Fringe Benefits Custom Interiors because I am more than satisfied with the look and feel of my new home! Mary Sue is both highly professional and very personal in her approach and services. She took time to listen and discern my unique tastes and preferences. She was a great resource for choosing and installing all my window treatments, both custom blinds and draperies, She accompanied me to vendors to choose furniture, lighting, rugs and decor. The installers (window treatments, electrician, etc) who she provided were respectful, thorough and excellent in their work. As far as I am concerned, Mary Sue went "above and beyond" in everything she did! And it is with great appreciation that I would recommend her services through Fringe Benefits Custom Interiors - without reservation! Note: Mary Sue worked with me over a 6 month period, and is still readily available for her expertise and consultation, so choosing one month for a project date below is not applicable to my situation.

I hired Mary Sue and Jennifer to add backsplash to my kitchen and bar areas. They selected the perfect coloring to match the counter tops. What a wonderful difference the backsplash made.

Mary Sue with Fringe Benefits and Jennifer with Hideout Ranch Interiors teamed up to remodel our two bathrooms, our master bedroom and most recently our kitchen (photos attached). Mary Sue and Jennifer were wonderful to work with. They came with great ideas but also listened to our ideas and tried to incorporate them into the projects. When little problems came up as will happen when remodeling an older home, they dealt with them calmly and always came up with workable solutions. Their team of electricians, plumbers, drywall, and finishers were wonderful to work with. We highly recommend them!

Excellent! Mary Sue has gone above and beyond for us decorating two houses! We were overwhelmed with beginning the process and she came in with ideas and delivered perfectly. From drapes to carpet, from light fixtures to furniture and paintings, she put it all together for us! Mary Sue is able to see the vision and we are forever grateful! She won't disappoint! Craig

When our home needed some decorating updates, we called Mary Sue. Having worked with her before, I remembered that she is a 'quick study', she listens, is full of ideas and projects are completed timely. This time we were working in the kitchen - new window treatments and fabric for the chairs. She was able to mesh the often competing styles of my husband and I. We also updated a guest bath with a new window treatment and a beautiful shower curtain. She had wonderful suggestions that made the room almost feel spa-like. She is truly a delight!

As project leads, Mary Sue Hafey from Fringe Benefits Custom Interiors, teaming up with Jennifer Hogan from Hideout Ranch Interiors were an absolute pleasure to work with throughout our month long home remodeling project. They were both extraordinarily knowledgable and professional. At the conclusion of previous remodeling projects of this size with other contractors my wife and I frequently found areas where we had failed to make optimum choices and regretted missing opportunities to add or modify potentially game changing sub-projects. With Jennifer and Mary Sue we received timely and accurate suggestions at every stage yielding major and positive results throughout the project. They were always willing to help applying their years of expertise to the problem. As we discovered, selecting colors, textures, designs, and source manufacturers can be confusing and complicated. One decision can easily have a cascading impact across an entire project. Their suggestions at every stage ensured all was well coordinated and beautifully balanced. It is never pleasant to experience the disruptions that come with any home remodeling project, but they made it as painless as humanly possible. When the project was completed we were pleased FAR BEYOND our highest expectations. They skillfully married the technical and the artistic aspects of the entire project achieving truly stunning results. Their efforts to coordinate the work of their various craftsmen were always right on target and accurate. When they said a task would be completed on a given date it was. Their cost estimates were always accurate and were never padded with hidden add on fees. Of particular interest to me was that every craftsman they brought to the job was among the best we had ever encountered in each of their respective trades. They were all professionals with years of experience. Each demonstrated extreme pride in their work and took pains to ensure that even the smallest details we not overlooked. Their experience based suggestions saved us money and a great deal of stress. When the entire project was complete, the results were stunning. Jennifer and Mary Sue, along with their skilled craftsmen, came to feel like family as the project progressed. We strongly recommend them to anyone considering a remodeling project. We are so pleased to have avoided that ‘would have, could have, should have’ feeling at the completion of our project. We got it done right the first time with these folks. We will definitely use them again for our next project.

Mary Sue has been our designer for years, helping with different updates and additions to our home. Recently, she helped to completely redecorate our guest bath and laundry room. She brought so much life to a somewhat boring room, adding custom bold draperies with valence, coordinating rugs, towels, and decor. We get compliments on her work often and we can't wait to have her do more in our home! Thank you Mary Sue for an amazing job, we are blessed to have you.

Mary Sue has been our decorator for our new home. Her experience and insight has been a blessing as we would have been overloaded if we tried to do this ourselves! She designed and produced all of the window coverings and our Master room bedding. In addition she helped pick out items to decorate such as rugs and pictures. She has an excellent eye for what will work and was happy to spend a lot of time with us to get it right the first time. We plan to continue to call upon her in the future.

Mary Sue, of Fringe Benefits Custom Interiors, was simply extraordinary! She had an excellent eye for color carrying out a continuous design balance throughout my house, creating a pleasant element of flow throughout. Mary Sue was versatile and flexible in her design regarding space planning, wall color, window treatments and accessorizing my personal and favorite pieces, along with a few new accent items. Our trips to both the Design Center and Merchandise Mart really paid off, and let me know how valued my ideas, and opinions were! Mary Sue was conscientious of not only my personal tastes, but my budget. This made it very easy for me to work with her. A pleasure to work with from start to finish!

Mary Sue has been guiding me through a redesign of my masterbedroom since the beginning of the year. I LOVE working with her. She listens well which allows her to guide me through the decisions I am stuggling to make.And, she allows me to work at my pace and not feel rushed. I trust her to be honest without bowling over my ideas. She has also made suggestions just outside the box enough to make the coordination of fabrics, shades, lighting and paint colors exquisite! Mary Sue, owner of Fringe Benefits, has also helped me on two other window treatment decisions that turned out great. Her support team of work room sewers, installers and her engineering eye have made everything work and fit perfectly.

Mary Sue has completed numerous projects with our family, designing and installing custom window treatments in every room of our home. She is a pleasure to work with from initial design consultation to final installation. She is a consistently knowledgeable, calm and efficient presence expert in any design style. She listens intently to me when I know exactly what I want and executes it, but more importantly, she listens even more carefully when I have no idea what I want and manages to execute something more beautiful than I could have imagined. Mary Sue is consistently well within original budget and quoted timelines. She takes any stress out of the decision making process, and leaves you with the opportunity to anticipate being completely thrilled with her work. I have recommended her without hesitation to friends in need of design assistance, and will continue to do so.

We just moved to Texas and Mary Sue did all the drapes in our new home. They are beautiful and bring such warmth to our home. My husband and I both love them! She is so kind and really listened to what we wanted. Thank you Mary Sue!

I have worked with Mary Sue for some years now to complete areas of my 6,700 sf custom home. I cannot speak highly enough of her expertise and work ethic. She is responsive and timely. She has an entire library of fabric and trim books. My focus has been mainly window treatments, however, after recent water damage, she aided in paint selection as well as wood floor stain. I have referred several people to Fringe Benefits, everyone loves Mary Sue.

Mary Sue Hafey helped us with our new build in the Flying Horse subdivision in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She provided us with excellent advice on the color palate for our new home and the window coverings, in particular. We are so pleased with the final results. Mary Sue presented us with many options to choose from, which allowed us to find the product that fit our style. Highly recommended!!