STUDIO MB

I really enjoyed working with Maria to update the downstairs of our home. She helped us warm up the entire house just by adding art, shelving, decor, assisting with reupholstering our kitchen chairs, wallpapering our bathroom, painting the cabinets and updating the light fixture, finding a new chandelier for our dining room, and more. She was very professional and works hard to understand your budget and stay within it, as well as get a feel for your taste. She has a great eye and it is obvious that interior design is her passion because she is amazing at what she does. We are so happy with the work Maria did and we plan on using her in the near future to do some updating to the upstairs of our home. I highly recommend Maria!

I really enjoyed working with Maria on our kitchen remodel. She was very professional, easy to work with, and had great ideas for the layout of our new kitchen and great room. She also had great recommendations on where to buy all our materials like flooring, cabinets, countertops, and appliances.

We did two color consulting jobs for us as we were painting the exterior of our house and renovating our home office. She has a great eye and is very easy to work with. We will definitely be working with her on future projects.

Maria was a dream to work with. She listened to my needs and made sure to accommodate her design recommendations based on what I mentioned. She was willing to go on a few shopping trips with me to find decor and was conscious of my budget, when selecting options. All in all, I had such a great experience and will be scheduling more time with her to design the rest of my home.

We used Maria over 19 years ago when we built a large semi-custom home. All of the design work that she did for that home stood the test of time. We loved it. We recently retired and downsized and decided to go with a whole new style while trying to keep some of our special pieces that Maria helped us find 19 years. She was able to incorporate our older pieces into a very modern look and we are thrilled. Maria has an amazing eye for colors and putting unique styles together. She is also extremely pleasant to work with. She listens to her clients needs and budgets and surprises you with the most wonderful things. She also handles all levels of design work. I highly recommend her!

Maria is a true professional with excellent design skills. She is extremely customer focused and always goes the extra mile for her clients. Maria helped me from the remodel construction phase (architectural design, materials i.e flooring , plaster colors, cabinets, etc.) to set the space up with the right look and feel prior to the interior design furnishings which turned out amazing. Her talent for reading her clients vision and then executing that beyond their expectations is superior. I would recommend Maria to anyone who is looking for that "wow factor".

Maria did a great job designing my kitchen, being a single guy I needed the help! The prints that she made my carpenter were accurate and without error. My kitchen is awesome and everyone that see’s it loves the layout, colors and material choices. I walk into my kitchen and ask if I’m in the right house! I couldn’t be happier!

Maria was able to make my home look really great with a minimal budget. Though my home is a work in progress, Maria has designed an awesome master suite and an open kitchen family room plan that I hope some day to implement. I highly recommend her.

I hired Maria for a condo bathroom remodel. After interviewing several others, I chose her as she was very direct in stating which of my ideas would not work and why, and saved me a disaster if left to my own unartistic ways. I liked her ideas, found her very professional and easy to work with, not the least of which affordable utilizing a flat fee. I've been stung in the past with rising hourly fees where the designer has no incentive to stay on budget. I can highly recommend working with Maria.

I have worked with Maria Billingsly off and on for the past 12 years as I have updated my home. In 2008, I did a major kitchen/family room/laundry room remodel, including removing a wall and pushing out the windows. Maria did the end-to-end design and she did an amazing job. My new kitchen is absolutely stunning. Working with Maria is so easy. She is creative, energetic and passionate about what she does. She is a true professional in every aspect of her work. She is also very collaborative with both the client, as well as the contractors hired to complete the job. i have also used Maria to do paint selection (both inside the house and outside the house), furniture selection, fabric selection for re-upholstery, and accessory design. I would never hire anyone else!

Maria has a great design sense as well as great expertise in picking out just the right furniture, accessories, art and window coverings to bring out the beauty in our home. We now have art and attractive accessories throughout our home and our living room is gorgeous and very inviting! We are in the process of working with Maria and contractors to bring her contemporary design for our bonus room to life and we can't wait to see the finished product! Maria is very easy to work with-- she is always professional, courteous, and timely! My husband and I look forward to many continued years of working with Maria!

Maria Billingsley interior design expertise is of the highest caliber. Whether a home design project she is undertaking is complicated (new construction/remodel) or on the simplistic side Maria has proven time and time again that she can provide/deliver a harmonious, attractive, creative and fresh outcome to any home project she is hired to do. She is both positive and enthusiastic in her approach to all interior design project given her by my husband and me from the commencement of a given project to its natural conclusion. I found Maria to be knowledgeable, forward thinking, creative, sensible, skillful and refreshing in her approach to all of the interior design projects given to her in the last 25+ years by both my husband and myself.... just as important Maria is honest in her approach when expressing her opinions regarding the direction of any given project she’s involved with yet respectful of her clients sentiments as well (mine and my husbands). Maria is a proficient “Interior Designer” with a keen sense (command) of architectural interplay when incorporating furnishing, fabrics, stone, wood, metal, window treatments and or glass materials as she develops her design layouts for a clients home / projects…. in addition Maria is a smooth and patience calibrator when working with more than one client at a time on a given project (which in my view is a highly important attribute that a designer should have) she keeps things moving and composed. Whether a home be modern, contemporary, rustic, tuscan , colonial or old world….. Maria has the ability to address each home accordingly, exclusively and efficiently resulting in an over all pleasing, harmonious, well appointed look. With Marias interior design guidance an ordinary home becomes extraordinary….a space once void of expression and color now filled with interest, sophistication, vivacity and beauty. Carmen Nokes