Within Licensed Interior Design Inc.

We hired Within Design (working with Lindsay Zelensky) after two false starts - one designer all art no practicality, the other all practicality no art. Bottom line: My wife and I highly recommend Lindsay and Within Design for a renovation or new space design of essentially any scale. They do all scale of residential as well as commercial/retail/office jobs. Lindsay provided exactly the balance of design sense and project management sense to start our medium sized renovation on the path to success. She assessed our goals needs & wants, overlaying her guidance and ideas on our basic design theme. Pushes professionally where that's needed. Open to any level of client involvement - ours was quite high. As noted, a highlight is Lindsay's ability to deliver both design and early stage project management, keeping things moving with a good work sequence and a reasonably aggressive schedule. Interfaced extremely well with our general contractor (Ashwood Homes) and other key people notably kitchen cabinet people (Ekko) pulling in their ideas as well. Positive, constructive, patient and still kept us moving forward. I've no doubt that this project would have taken longer and cost more with out Lindsay's work including detailed spec's of high enough quality (photos, models, etc.) that Rod at Ashwood was able to provide very tight cost estimates. She provided only the necessary drawings and they were of high quality. At no time did she attempt to up-sell us i.e. she provided the appropriate level of service and the result was a design cost from Within Design that was very reasonable as a % of the total project. Lindsay stayed on top of the project as it began and was available to troubleshoot minor inevitable surprises such as the need to modify a kitchen tile pattern on the fly. A final comment on the scale of our work as context - painted whole house; all new flooring on 2 of 3 levels; completely new kitchen, laundry room, powder room and family room feature wall; 80% new lighting; new front and rear doors; a small amount of wall removal. Within Design was involved in selection of paint, flooring, tiles & finishes, cabinetry, layout especially in the kitchen and laundry room, spec's and some drawings where needed, early interface with contractor on design costs and schedule, troubleshooting as needed.

We brought a challenge to Lindsay and Cory, we wanted our house to have the look and feel of a turn of the century New Orleans home. Lindsay and Cory did an excellent job designing our interior. Lindsay took the lead on the project and guided us through the design process. There were some bumps along the way but one reason that we highly recommend WithIn design is their ability to work through difficulties and help us achieve the look we were going for. We continue to reach out to Lindsay and she continues to help us, could not imagine our project without her!