Smike Wallen

Smike was fantastic to work with. He is always willing to go the extra mile to ensure that your needs and wants are met. The best thing about Smike is his eye for detail. If you, like me, notice the smallest imperfections in a design, Smike is your man, as he will make sure every detail is finished to exacting standards. Smike is also extremely pleasant and courteous - someone you want in your home working on a project.

Our experience with Smike was Fantastic!!! His knowledge and ability to communicate his vision in a simple and clear way was priceless. I am not visual or creative so Smike was able to provide a clear vision and perform beyond our expectations. We are so grateful to have worked with him and his team.

Smike Wallen Living is an amazing company that is focused, efficient, and provides excellent results. Smike is a great person to work with and tailors his experience specific to the client involved with passion and dedication. I recommend highly!

I'm a General Contractor that works with designers often, and Smike is one of the most talented I've seen. Attention to detail is a big deal and he is no slacker. Have him find you a dump and transform it into the place of your dreams. He's a one stop shop for all your housing or business needs!

There really aren't enough stars in the rating system to do Smike Wallen justice! Smike staged my large, vintage home in Hancock Park to sell. It sold in a little over a week! Smike shouldered the job with style and grace. He was calm and professional. He explained that in my case he just needed to edit my things to showcase the space and architectural elements of the house. When finished, my living room looked like a welcoming ballroom, my bedroom's outdated faux finished paint was replaced with a soothing , stone color that i liked so much I used it in my new bedroom and my office was turned into a delightful children's bedroom to suggest that young children could be comfy in the home. Smike made many staging and design choices in the four thousand square foot house that made it fresh and appealing. Obviously, it worked. I hired Smike to come on board my new project--a townhouse in a 1924 Old Hollywood enclave in the Hollywood Hills, Smike designed 3 floors of rooms and 3 patios. His designs were both practical and bold. We picked a "pop" color for the living room. Amidst my neutrals, we added magenta arm chairs and sofa pillows--a real statement that worked! Smike was always conscious of budget and found reasonably priced items and bargains for all spaces. We agreed to laquer many of my mismatched pieces in a deep gray color to pull all the rooms together. He placed pieces of furniture in this color in every room. In this way, he pulled the whole house together in an almost subliminal way. Smart, cost-effective and truly elegant. We shopped for rugs and accessories and even bought a piece on eBay! Obviously, I have a lot to say about Smike and his work. I have recommended him to many friends. Everyone is thrilled with his creativity, professionalism and "can do" attitude. I'm hoping to remodel my basement into a screening room. I've already spoken to Smike and off the cuff, he's come up with some wonderful ideas to maximize space and light to create a relaxing, comfortable, but highly stylish space at a price. Bravo, Smike. Thanks for all the great work! More to come!

As a busy Realtor in the Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills area I call on Smike Wallen to help me with staging my listings when they need that special something. Smike is fast, has a great eye and every $1000 my clients spend with him I would say helps add another $10,000 to the final sales price. It's great for me to have someone like him in my "tool box" to call on that I can rely on to assist me to make sure we have a seamless sale. He's also a pleasure to be around! Wendy Wilkins locationlocationla.com Keller Williams Hollywood Hills BRE#01906934

Smike Wallen has been absolutely invaluable to us as we update, renovate, and remodel our house. We greatly admire his creativity, his esthetic flair, and his determination to get things right. We also appreciate his good cheer, and friendly disposition. Highly recommended.

Smike Wallen is a rare individual who has an impeccable eye for design and beauty and an outstanding work ethic. He says what he means and means what he says. He is multi talented, follows through in a timely fashion and provides a unique approach to design. He has been our designer on our overall house remodel and if not for him, we would never have remodeled. For example of his skills, my husband was tired of seeing cars parked in our large driveway while sitting in our living room. Smike created a out side Shangri la without costing much money or making any structural changes. He put plotted plants and other shrubs near the outside of the floor to ceiling windows, gravel on a section of the drive way, patio furniture, pop color paint and more and we now have the most beautiful outside area that we enjoy daily.

Smike is a true professional and a gentleman as well. He gave us a detailed budget for the work he performed, with many options. He chose beautiful paint colors for our rooms, staged our home for selling, and performed much-needed maintenance inside our home and in the garden. The house sold at full asking price within days -- but we had fallen back in love with our home and decided not to sell after all! I also saw the work he did on the fixer he bought in our neighborhood. It was a sad, sad place, and he turned it into a palace, including creating a very cleverly designed guest room in the backyard.

I put my house on the market and my broker recommended Smike Wallen Living to stage the house in order to achieve a higher price and quicker sale. We mixed our furniture with some of Smike's furnishings. He also rearranged everything, had the house repainted a more neutral color inside, and changed some light fixtures. My wife and I wished we had thought to do some of the things that Smike did while we were still living there. It would have given our home a much more spacious feel than it had. I would definitely hire Smike Wallen Living again.

I cannot say enough good things about the work Smike did for us. He remodelled our kitchen, laundry room and bathroom in the Summer of 2011. He was on site every day which made the process run very smoothly. He finished the job a few days before he promised and did not go over budget- except where we agreed to do additional things that were not part of the original job. I think htat is unheard of in this business! We continue to get complements on our kitchen and all of the work has held up. Not only is Smike creative and honest, he is a really great human being. I highly recommend him.