Lugbill Designs

When my wife and I moved into our first home, we spent almost two hours debating paint colors before we decided calling in a pro would save us time, strife, and second-guessing ourselves. It would up being the best possible decision! Over the past five years, we've completed a number of projects with Lugbill Designs, from choosing paint colors for the entire house to renovating our kitchen, designing living room built-ins and settling on furniture layouts. Erica is a complete pro, but just as importantly she's a true collaborator: gently suggesting layout tweaks or new approaches that weren't even on our radar but completely blew us away with the impact, working within our budget, and being super responsive to our questions and requests. Her team really understands that a home is meant to be lived in, not just staged to look pretty -- so they guided us to durable options that would hold up well with our three kiddos without having to compromise on aesthetic. I'm not surprised that several of the vendors in Lugbill Design's rolodex (from carpet installers to cabinet makers to closet installers!) gushed about how great it is working with the team and what real pros they are. We couldn't agree more -- and over the years I've recommended Lugbill Designs to several close friends.

In my past review I said I would use Lugbill Designs again and I did! We bought a larger condo and did a complete gut renovation. Erica and Jessica designed the entire space including modifying the layout, designing a kitchen, three baths, lighting etc. Once again, it turned out beautifully and exceeded our expectations. I love that each of the baths are quite unique and yet their causal elegance fit beautifully with the rest of the condo. The kitchen is stunning and very functional. Their designs have a fresh look that will also wear well over time. Erica and the team are also responsive, flexible, honest, innovative and just a pleasure to work with!

As I'm approaching the first anniversary living in my new condo barely a day goes by when I don't think to myself how much I love living here. This was a complete gut rehab from top to bottom including taking out a wall and "dropping" the cement ceiling a bit to allow for recessed lighting ( Erica Lugbill's brilliant idea) If I had to pick a favorite room it would be my living/dining room but would also include the kitchen area as it's a very open floor plan. The kitchen is bright and inviting while still being very functional. My condo has a very open feel and the light wood floors, the beautiful unique features and wall fixtures combined with the furnishings make the condo my very loved home....one that I look forward to spending this long winter ahead in pure comfort and contentment. Thank You Erica Lugbill, Jessica and Joe for your creativity and insight in creating my forever dream home.

Erica and her team are wonderful. She designed our boys room and I couldn’t be happier. The kids love it as do I!

Erica was recommended to me when I was renovating a 4-unit rental property in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood. She was able to redesign 2 bedroom apartments into 3 bedroom apartments and a 1Br Coachhouse into an amazing, dramatic 2 Bedroom unit. Uder Erica’s careful guidance we were able to max-out the available space and thereby increase the rental income significantly!!! Erica was a joy to work with and I will definitely hire her for my next project.

Erica and her team are outstanding to work with. I've engaged her services both personally and professionally. I first met Erica when she was helping some of my real estate clients with a complicated rehab for their new condo as part of the House Hunters Renovation show. I was impressed with how well she listened to the clients and was able to source more affordable products to achieve a certain look and feel. I subsequently hired her for my own house renovation/addition both to help select finishes, solve some challenging space issues and oversee the contractors to make sure they were doing things properly. My wife and loved how well she understood our needs and made the process both easy and enjoyable. She and her team were very attentive, always got back to us within a day, helping to keep the project on schedule and on budget. I really appreciate her great taste, her respect of the history of a property and understanding of the best ways to maximize livability. I've since recommended her group to nearly a dozen clients who always have extremely positive things to say. She's truly a bargain for her cost when considering how well she works with contractors, discount vendors and improves the overall functionality and value of a home.

I absolutely love working with Erica and her design team. Erica does not push her style on you but rather help you identify yours. I hired Erica for a kitchen and bathroom remodel and has continued to refinishing floors, painting all other rooms, and design of the den and living room. Erica has a great eye for color and has transformed my small home for the the 1970s to a stylish modern environment. Erica and her team was responsive to my every concern when working with contractors, products etc. I cried for hours after the kitchen tile was installed and wasn't sure I could live with it. Erica came right out to reassure me the next day and told me to wait until everything was installed and my concerns of it being busy would be ok. She was right and I have trusted her every decision since. You will never go wrong hiring Erica and her team at Lugbill Designs!

I hired lugbill designs to do a complete refresh of my dining room. It turned out amazing and just how I envisioned. They were wonderful to work with and I would definitely use them again!

Fabulous team. Reliable. Great service. Refined taste. Cost conscious. Very clever in terms of how to design a room so it's user friendly. Wonderful at tuning into the details I needed for the space to work, from the color scheme to the layout.

I loved working with Erica and her team. We used them for a complete kitchen and hallway design and remodel as well as some redecorating in the adjoining living room of our condo. They always offered great ideas at several price points and helped us achieve the fresh look we wanted in a much more functional space. They were also very flexible about working with and assisting the contractor that I had do the demo/electric/and plumbing work. I also appreciated that they were responsive to any question or concern that I had during the process and gave us great advice without being pushy. I would absolutely use Lugbill Designs again!

Erica is an extremely creative professional who is dedicated to her clients. She is always dependable and a pleasure to work with. We started our whole house renovation, room by room the first part of 2013 and are still working with Erica. W would highly recommend Erica Lugbill to anyone with confidence that they will not be disappointed.

We work with Erica Lugbill on several projects per year, and she is one of my favorite designers. Not only do her final projects look great, she is a total pro: creative, organized and thorough. She and her project manager, Joe Gringas, bring a lot of fun and enthusiasm to the table throughout the entire design process.

Lugbill Design is the best of the best! We had such an amazing experience working with Erica and her team. From the moment we picked up the phone for the consultation to the moment our house was complete Erica and her team were nothing short of amazing. Erica and Joe truly care about every detail that goes into your project and it is so appreciated. We love absolutely everything that they did for us!

Working with Erica and Lugbill Designs has been a great experience. She's friendly, and always comes up with new and creative job specific ideas. She has a great blend of design knowledge and space utilization.

I have worked with Erica on her projects for the past 5 years and I cannot think of a better, more qualified designer. She is creative, innovative and most of all, very easy to work with. Erica is also extremely professional and responsive. Lugbill Designs is the right balance of quality, price and professionalism. She truly provides the best "value" in the industry.

Erica was wonderful to work with. She understood what I was looking for and was able to guide me to select the perfect furnishings for my condo. I look forward to working with her again some day!

I first hired Erica in 2012 to help me decorate our new home. Initially she selected decor for our living room, kitchen and master bedroom. She went above and beyond the call of duty by suggesting how to personalize inexpensive pieces to look unique and uniform with our design. I hired Erica again in 2014 to remodel our master bathroom and once again , Erica delivered beautifully. Erica has a sophisticated palette and is willing to work with any size budget. I have recommended her services to several friends who have used her for anything from selecting paint colors to furniture placement. I highly recommend Erica and hope to work with her again in the future.

We at EuroFurniture always enjoy working with Erica and her staff on their projects. Always curious and professional Lugbill Designs is a delight!

We hired Lugbill Designs primarily for our kitchen redesign. They looked at our current kitchen design, listened to our needs, and came up with a sharp, contemporary design for our new kitchen. They acted as general contractor overseeing the subcontractors who removed the old kitchen and installed the new kitchen--electrical, plumbing, and construction. In addition, they oversaw acid-cleaning and tuckpointing of our interior brick walls, painted our plaster walls, and offered suggestions on furniture that would best suit our urban loft apartment. Erica was wonderful to deal with. She was very creative and responsive to our requests before, during and after the job.

We are very happy that we found Erica to help us redo our aging kitchen. She was wonderful to work with and had great contractors and resources that helped us achieve our dream. We don't like wasted space, and she helped us design some unique cabinet solutions. She also designed a special light fixture over our center island that includes LED lights that change colors. We were so happy with our results that we hired her again later to help with a basement den project which needed custom designed built in shelving. We loved the results and will use her again on future projects.

Lugbill Designs helped us renovate and furnish our entire townhome by providing design ideas and project managament services. Lugbill helped us decide which materials/products to use and how to use them, then procured them, and overaw the work. Our space is 4 levels, with bedrooms, bathrooms, living room, kitchen, etc. and the project included floors, paint, fixtures, furnishings, etc. I found Erica, from Lugbill Designs, to be exceptionally great at listening to my ideas and providing realistic solutions. This was our first time using a design service. I will be using Lugbill Designs for future projects, should any arrise.

Erica designed my new dream kitchen. She is an credibly talented kitchen layout designer. I could not be happier with how she helped me realize the image I had in my mind! My kitchen is not only beautiful but it is super functional and user-friendly.

My partner and I had some necessary corrections made to our condo unit which caused us to have to adjust some of the layout of our living space. We had to relocate a wine refrigerator that had lived in the living room for years. We wanted to relocate it into our kitchen but was overwhelmed with the task. Talking with Erica Lugbill was the best thing that could have happen for our place. She visited us and immediately understood what we wanted. In talking to her, we told her that we might want to change a couple other items in our kitchen at the same time we had the refrigerator installed in our kitchen. She took pictures, measured the entire kitchen, and told us that she would start designing a "mini" makeover. Within 3 days, she came back to our house, and showed us a 3D rendering of a couple ideas for the placement our wine frig within our kitchen. We loved both choices, and settled on one of them. She also suggested several options for the other concerns we had with the kitchen. Erica helped us pick the products for our "mini" makeover and couldn't wait for the process to start. After wards, Erica introduced us to her construction crew, when they all came over for a review of the work order. This was something I didn't expect, but truly appreciated. The work began within a week, and her crew was completely professional with the entire scoop of work. They spent half a day just preparing the work area and protecting all the other rooms from dust and work debris. Since we have a loft, our kitchen is open to the dining room which is open to the living room, the crew understood this, and completely insulated the rest of the house. Erica visited daily to check on her crew and on us, making sure to work out the smallest construction details and to answer any of our questions or concerns. Once the process was completed, the crew spent another half a day cleaning and removing everything that they brought into our condo. We ended up with a one of a kind kitchen compared to the rest of the building, a perfectly incorporated wine refrigerator, new back splash tile, new pendant lighting system, new brushed nickel wall switch & outlet plates, and to finish off the project, a fancy industrial kitchen faucet. Before hiring Erica, I always thought a interior designer would be an expensive proposition, but we were pleasantly surprised that this wasn't true. Erica is extremely talented, keep with our budget, and was completely professional. She is a great listener and didn't push her own choices when it came to material options. Not only did everything come out wonderful, put she suggested a different color for a accent wall, and it is amazing how it transferred the adjoining room. She is amazing, pick up the phone and call her!

In 2009 Lugbill Designs created our daughter's bedroom, and we couldn't have asked for anything better. From the paint combination on the walls to the custom-made paintings to match her bedspread to repainting the stained dresser and crib to white, it was absolutely perfect. We would recommend Lugbill Designs to anyone. In fact, several years later, we had her custom-paint two great pieces of word art for our family room and loved them as much as the first project.

I contracted Erica as a designer/project manager to have a gas fireplace built in our condo. I was so surprised how closely the fireplace, tilework & overall design ended up as compared to her initial rendering - it was as if it was lifted off the paper & put into my living room! We were so thrilled with how it turned out, and Erica made sure the whole process was seamless & easy for us. She has a keen eye for detail & I love that she is brutally honest with what she thinks will work, and keeps to the budget perameters. We'd definitely recommend Lugbill Designs!

I hired Lugbill Designs for a kitchen renovation and was very impressed! Erica Lugbill has a terrific design eye and a talent for making a space really pop. She is extremely professional, courteous, and shows tremendous attention to detail. I couldn't be happier with the end results and will use Lugbill Designs for design work for many years to come.