Janet Kauffman Interiors & Design LLC

I have worked twice with Janet over the past few years creating custom finishes for her clients and it is always a great experience. She has a unique viewpoint design-wise which always involves some impressive problem-solving. Her easy-going personality coupled with her dedication to her projects is rare in the interior design industry. She has a way of making things work that borders on the magical.

I HIGHLY recommend Janet! She is so talented and fabulous! I have used Janet on two projects so far and will continue to find more projects for her to do. She has an amazing talent for understanding what her client wants and delivering far above expectations. I have worked with several other designers in the past and have never had someone who listens and interprets as well as Janet! I absolutely love everything that she has done and have received many compliments on her work. I wish I can take credit...well, I guess I can, I had the good sense to hire Janet!!

Janet and I have worked together on two different houses over three years with two very different budgets and goals. And I can say there is no one else I could trust with building my personal space and respecting my tastes and my budget while finding unique and creative ways to reinvent a space. Our first project together was large (5100 sq feet) with completely new floors, paint, lighting, drapes, and her custom-designed built in cabinets. She stayed within budget and took elements of my older furniture/decor and blended with new items seamlessly. I felt like she understood my tastes better than I did myself! We shopped sometimes together at a store, but more often she would shop and load up her car with items on loan and then I would "shop" from the back of her car at my house. She has great relationships with local design houses and knows a range of cost options for finding small and large pieces. I liked having her CAD drawings of room arrangements to decide between, and her invoices were always accurate and allowed for detailed break down of cost. Our second project was a smaller home (3,000 sq feet) and mostly arranging pieces and working on pulling together color and new curtains. Janet will not stop until she gets exactly the detail she wants on a project, and you can feel it in everything she choses and places! She went to bat for me on so many occasions to negotiate price and get the just right fit for items. She knows the best local contractors and vendors to use. Janet is kind and funny and really listens to you when you have a vision for what you want. She pushes your edges just a little to find undiscovered ways to make your home feel special and like it matches who you really are. She is kind of a therapist in that she has to understand her clients deeply to make choices for them and guide their design plans.

When we moved back to the greater Phoenix area there wasn't a doubt in our mind who we would hire to help in the selection of materials for our custom home and to design/furnish it when it was completed. Over the last two years as we worked with Janet we have been amazed at her ability to take our style and translate it into something that is unique, sophisticated, personal, warm and functional for our family. Her talents are magical as she brings in upholstery, pillows, lamps, rugs, art, vintage and custom pieces. When she is done they look as if they were meant to be together all along in that space, yet you will never see it in any other home. It is a personal creation just for you. We trust Janet without reservation and are always amazed with what she delivers on time and on budget from numberless sources. After going through this process I am certain we would not have been able to do this on our own. We would have spent more money, taken much longer to complete, and the end product would have been uninspiring. Thankfully we had Janet on our team from the very beginning and that has made all the difference.

Janet Kauffman exceeded our expectations! She took our thoughts & with her vision, created our home which we just love Janet is a true professional in every sense of the word...we highly recommend her

Janet and I have worked on many projects over the years. Her ideas and design are exciting to create. The use of wonderful materials in a unique design, love it. Every project she brings to us, is an original design, by her. For this I have much respect. To often I find myself reproducing furniture from photos for clients. As an artist I love designing my own furniture or being challenged by a designer who dreams up such great projects. Thanks J :)

This was our third project using Janet Kauffman as our design professional. We are totally satisfied with all of our projects and how she personally handled the entire process. Our last home design was recently selected by Phoenix Home and Garden magazine as the feature home and cover-a testament to the unique design incorporated.

We have had the privilege of working with Janet for the last decade, and if I was asked to describe her skills as a Interior Designer in one word, I would say "Magnificent". She is professional, friendly, honest, easy to work with, punctual, gets the job done, has fantastic resources, is very well respected in the industry, has been featured in the most prestigious publications, including multiple features in Phoenix Home & Garden. If you ask me her best feature as a interior design professional, it would be her ability to start a project from scratch, or incorporate your existing furnishings and decor with things that she sources for you at excellent values, for results that can only be described as magical. She knows that its YOUR home, and she does her magic reflecting your taste, and that is fantastic. I do not give this recommendation lightly, because I am part of a business in town and if you don't find her up to my extremely high recommendation, then I would lose your trust; and after acknowledging that I will say that I would send you to Janet if you were my family with all the confidence in the world that I am steering you in the direction of a wonderful person whose work speaks louder than any words I can write; just view her projects on her website or online, and the rest will be a mute point. Saeed Aslam, Manager Alyshaan Fine Rugs Scottsdale Arziona

For nearly a decade, Janet Kauffman has been one of our favorite designers to work with. Her projects are beautiful, creative, and professionally completed. Tireless and innovative, Janet comes up with interesting solutions to design questions. Wonderful to work with, Janet is someone any of us would hire to design our own homes. Not only is she a top-notch designer, she is also a joy to be around.