Lilium Designs

We've only had the opportunity to photograph one property they designed but the beautiful job they did left an impression on us. Lilium's perfect balance of textures and colors made our job a joy. We also briefly met Jen, who's a sweetheart and obviously very talented.

I've been working with Lilium on two large projects for the past three years - one of which is my home in the La Playa area. I cannot recommend them enough. Not only are they great people - they're fantastic designers and outstanding collaborators. Hire them!

I hired Lilium Designs to help with a kitchen remodel. Vanessa was referred to me by a trusted design friend. I was so thrilled with the kitchen that I hired Vanessa to help with our family room. Next she will help with my bedroom. Her taste is classic and she listens and understands her clients. Never has she tried to impress her own taste on me but instead offering helpful and insightful tips to help make the best design decisions.

As we were embarking on a whole-house remodel, we found Lilium Designs here on Houzz, and were immediately attracted to the very tasteful and subtly refined aesthetic represented in their work, and suspected they would be a good fit for our needs. We couldn’t be happier with the result of working with Vanessa and Jen from Lilium on the design of our home. Every room of our house now has their touch and influence. From helping us redesign an entire kitchen and all our bathrooms, to new flooring, lighting, window coverings, wall colors, and lots of built-in cabinetry and finishes that make our home absolutely beautiful and also very warm and comfortable. Not only are Vanessa and Jen wonderfully talented in their design instincts and recommendations, they were incredibly knowledgable, friendly, professional, and organized. They met with us numerous times on-site and at supplier locations, often with pre-selected options to help narrow down our decisions. They interacted seamlessly with our contractor and his subs to handle changes, schedules, material deliveries, and installation. And even though we know they were working with multiple clients, they always made us feel like we were their only client. We recommend Lilium without hesitation to anyone that needs help designing interior spaces.

Lilium Designs helped me remodel my entire home. They worked with my contractor to reconfigure the kitchen, bath, and entryway to make my home more functional and beautiful. I was very impressed, not only with their knowledge of interior decorating, but design and construction of a home. Vanessa and Jennifer really made the stressful process of remodeling a home more relaxing and enjoyable. They learned my style early on but also challenged my comfort zone to create an amazing space for my family. I highly recommend Lilium Designs to anyone looking to change or just update their surroundings.

We worked with Vanessa and her team on remodeling our kitchen and two bathrooms. She helped by narrowing down the endless options into manageable choices, that we loved, within our budget range. Her team was friendly, timely, knowledgable and trustworthy. We are thrilled with the final results and have already recommended her to numerous others, who have already used her team on their projects.

I’m not sure there is enough room here to write about all of the great things that I have to say about Vanessa and her staff at Lilium Designs. Her knowledge, experience, and dedication are second to none, and I had a really great experience working with her and her staff. She has such a great attitude - always cheerful and always willing to help. From the initial designs and layout, project planning, working with my HOA, working with all of the various contractors, and eventual furnishing and decoration, her efforts were nothing short of excellent. I really appreciated her design attention toward making my place more livable and getting the most out of every room. Even small enhancements or changes to existing things in my house have gone a long way to making my place more usable. I very much welcomed her infusion of “the practical” in her approach to design and optimization of the existing space. Vanessa and her team took care of everything for me and went well above and beyond of what one might expect from traditional design services. They basically did everything and anything to help my make my renovation (and life) easier even including things like meeting me at stores to look for appliances, taking deliveries on my behalf, meeting contractors at my house, meeting with and filling out HOA paperwork - the list goes on. Her and her team were quite literally on-point for for everything and they helped my remodel go very smoothly, keeping everything on time and well within budget. Vanessa was great about keeping me in the loop at all times and giving me updates along the way which went a long ways towards peace of mind. Her and her team made themselves readily available via phone, text, or e-mail, and it was great knowing they were on hand for any questions or concerns. I also benefited from the wealth of proven contractor’s at Lilium Designs’ disposal. These contractor’s have been personally vetted by Vanessa and are kept to a high standard. I found them to be extremely reliable and both their work and craftsmanship was outstanding. Lilium Designs helped manage them at every step of the way, again going a long way towards peace of mind. Similarly, I was able to take advantage of the portfolio of businesses that Lilium Designs works with, ensuring confidence in quality and reliability of my purchases along with special vendor discounts that were passed on to me. It’s difficult to express how grateful I am to Vanessa and her team in getting both me and my house in such a good place. I highly recommend working with her and her attentive staff and I am very happy that I chose Lilium Designs to help with my remodel. They went above and beyond my every expectation and am truly appreciative of their efforts.

My experience with Lilium Designs was extraordinary. They are a very talented, and refreshingly resourceful, firm. I recently completed construction of a home in Del Mar, and quickly moved in with my existing furniture -- only to realize that I hadn't given much thought to the interior design. I needed help to turn my "situation" into a comfortable home. I found Lilium Designs online, and was impressed by all the positive reviews. Our challenge was to create a warm environment that complemented the Mid-Century architecture - yet kept to a budget, and used as much of my furniture as possible. Vanessa (the principal) and her team tackled this with such expertise and enthusiasm that the whole experience far exceeded my expectations. During the design phase, they listened to my ideas and constraints, and then worked closely with me to develop the floor plan, furniture style, color palette and décor ideas. We reviewed multiple options for everything, both online and in my home. Since I was new to this, I was anxious about how the execution was going to work - all the shopping, sizing, ordering, delivering, returning, timing and installation. But Lilium handled it professionally and effortlessly - including the design and procurement of some custom furniture and décor pieces that really personalized my home. From start to finish, the execution went flawlessly. The result is a beautiful home that feels like home. One that impresses everyone who walks through the door - including myself, every single day.

We purchased an old home from the original owners that needed a major overhaul. Lilium design worked with us to create a beautiful functional space. Their expertise provided an opportunity for us to realize our dream home. All of our ideas, hopes and dreams were organized and implemented with the help of Lilium Design. I cannot thank them enough and look forward to working with them again in the future.

I posted a review on Yelp first and therefore some of my comments may be redundant. I felt it necessary to post a review on one more site at the very least because the job Vanessa and her company did was awesome. Not only was the product great but the whole design process itself I really appreciated. I didn't know anything about putting a place together. But Vanessa and her staff were so patient and kind with me and especially when I had questions or I changed my mind about something. Flat out, just hire Lilium if you need some interior design help.

I work with lilium to provide me a better layout of my aesthetic makeover for my house. We selected paint very well and, they measured all the rooms in my house and gave me diffrent options for the design. Afterwards, i have been in contact via email very well for my questions regarding color selection for the accesories. I tried at first to kind of make adjustments on their original plan but it just made my work bad. So i decided to stick to the floor plan coz its very well conducted from every single inches of my house:-).