How is Kimberly Rider Interiors rated?

Kimberly Rider Interiors is currently rated 4.6 overall out of 5

What services does Kimberly Rider Interiors provide?

Kimberly Rider Interiors provides the following services: 3D Rendering, Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), Art Selection, Bathroom Design, Bedroom Design, Color Consulting, Custom Bathroom Vanities, Custom Built-ins, Custom Cabinets, Custom Furniture, Custom Home Bars, Custom Kitchen Cabinets, Custom Rugs, Custom Shelving, Custom Storage, Dining Room Design, Drafting, Energy-Efficient Homes, Entry Design, Feng Shui Design, Floor Plans, Furniture Selection, Garage Design, Green Building, Guesthouse Design & Construction, Holiday Decorating, Home Office Design, House Plans, Interior Design, Kids Bedroom Design, Kitchen Design, Laundry Room Design, Lighting Design, Living Room Design, Mudroom Design, Outdoor Kitchen Design, Project Management, Space Planning, Sunroom Design & Construction, Sustainable Design

Where does Kimberly Rider Interiors provide services?

Kimberly Rider Interiors provides services in the following areas: Belvedere, Belvedere Tiburon, Black Point-Green Point, Bolinas, Corte Madera, Fairfax, Forest Knolls, Greenbrae, Kentfield, Lagunitas-Forest Knolls, Larkspur, Lucas Valley-Marinwood, Mill Valley, Muir Beach, Nicasio, Ross, San Anselmo, San Geronimo, San Rafael, Sausalito, Sleepy Hollow, Stinson Beach, Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, Tiburon, Woodacre, Oakland, San Francisco, Tahoe, Napa, Pacific Northwest

Kimberly Rider Interiors

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About Us

Kimberly Rider is the designer and founder of Kimberly Rider Interiors, an interior design firm specializing in creating modern, eco-luxurious residential and commercial spaces. Whether creating beautiful interiors, designing custom furniture, or writing about eco-living, Kimberly demonstrates an innovative curatorial vision for bringing sustainable solutions into every product, material, and space. With an education rooted in Industrial Design, Kimberly has the ability to bridge the worlds of art, architecture, and design to create custom spaces that reflect qualities of beauty and sustainability. In addition to creating elegant and unique interiors, Kimberly is the author of Organic Baby: Simple Steps for Healthy Living, a guide to creating a toxin-free home for children; as well as the Healthy Home Workbook, which offers tips on incorporating ecologically sound design into your home. Kimberly enjoys designing collaborative spaces that showcase livability, sustainability and luxury. In her free time she takes pleasure in getting inspiration from the outdoors, spending time with her family, and refurbishing vintage furniture. Kimberly works and lives in Marin County, California.

Awards

Green Building Professional, Sustainable North Bay award in 2011, HGTV guest designer and author of "Organic Baby" and "The Healthy Home Workbook".

13 Projects

Business Details

Business Name

Kimberly Rider Interiors

Phone Number

(415) 497-1994

Website

kimberlyrider.com

Address

368 San Anselmo
San Anselmo, CA 94960

Typical Job Cost

$10,000 - 8 million

We provide an estimate for our design fees and request a retainer. Our design services are provided on an hourly basis, with bi-weekly invoicing that includes detailed descriptions of how our time is spent. The overall project budget varies greatly depending on the scope of services, who is hired to implement the work and the level of quality of the materials requested.

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Services Provided

Interior Design

Kitchen Design

Bathroom Design

Living Room Design

Bedroom Design

Color Consulting

Space Planning

Furniture Selection

Kids Bedroom Design

Dining Room Design

Custom Cabinets

Custom Kitchen Cabinets

Lighting Design

Home Office Design & Construction

Custom Built-ins

Floor Plans

Custom Bathroom Vanities

Entry Design

Project Management

Custom Furniture

Laundry Room Design

Mudroom Design

House Plans

Custom Home Bars

Art Selection

Guesthouse Design & Construction

3D Rendering

Outdoor Kitchen Design

Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)

Sunroom Design & Construction

Custom Rugs

Sustainable Design

Custom Shelving

Drafting

Holiday Decorating

Green Building

Energy-Efficient Homes

Custom Storage

Feng Shui Design

Garage Design

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Areas Served

San Francisco

Oakland

Napa

San Rafael

Tahoe

Mill Valley

Larkspur

San Anselmo

Tamalpais-Homestead Valley

Corte Madera

Tiburon

Kentfield

Sausalito

Lucas Valley-Marinwood

Sleepy Hollow

Ross

Belvedere

Fairfax

Lagunitas-Forest Knolls

Black Point-Green Point

Woodacre

Bolinas

Stinson Beach

Muir Beach

San Geronimo

Nicasio

Belvedere Tiburon

Forest Knolls

Greenbrae

Pacific Northwest

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9 Reviews for Kimberly Rider Interiors

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Kelly Foster

I was searching for an Inerior Designer that would listen to me with my design needs, which were very specific. I needed not only an eco-friendly designer, but one that understood that I am also vegan, so the materials sourced were extremely important to me. While also of course, creating an incredible and beautiful space that was comfortable for all members of our family. Kimberly laid out a fantastic plan, understood my taste and was also able to speak and connect with my husband about cost in a way that not only eased his mind about the projects, but really brought him on board to the point that he was championing the projects and really excited about them as well. Every day my husband comes home and says, "I love our home. Thank You for hiring Kimberly. I now understand what you both were doing to make this house ours." It doesn't get any better than that! Kimberly helped make our house into a stunning home. We will continue to work with Kimberly on future projectss with our home. She is also gifted with landcaping as well. Our next phase is to redo our front and back yard. I highly recommend Kimberly Rider. She is knowledgeable, has a fabulous design aesthetic, and she is wonderful, just wonderful to work with on interior design projects. I have to say, she encourages your input and feedback, so she can understand your design aesthetic. Throughout the proess, she would always say to me, "We are designing for you. I want you to love it. If you don't love it, let me know. And it's okay if we disagree. I want to find pieces that you absolutely love and are going to make you feel good in your home." She can find virtually anything! She has an incredible work ethic as well. Often times when you an embark on a big project, such as ours, you really become close to with your designer. I learned so much throughout the process and really appreciated the time and hard work behined the scenes as well, that goes into interior design. She is very good about respecting your budget and how to make it work. She is able to also really help prioritize projects as well. Thank you for all that you have done for us, Kimberly! We love you and your beautiful work and we will continue to utilize your services!

April 29, 2019

Comment from Kimberly Rider Interiors:

Love working with you too!! What an incredible journey and how beautifully the home reflects your colorful and energetic style! Can wait to get the outside to match the inside!! xoxox

Jill Callan

I am on my second project with Kimberly and cannot imagine working with any other designer. Kimberly has amazing taste and a unique way of integrating my personal style with the architecture of my home. Not only does she bring unique finds to the table, but works within all budget levels. I'd recommend Kimberly to anybody looking to create beautiful and functional spaces whether for a residence or commercial business. Plus, she's a ton of fun and takes feedback and direction incredibly well.

July 27, 2018

Comment from Kimberly Rider Interiors:

Thank you Jill! Love working with you & bringing together a home that you adore coming back to every day xoxo

California Sofa

Kimberly worked with me on a custom sectional that was conceived from a collaborative effort to come up with a great design. Her ideas were very creative and the work was executed with professionalism. I'm looking forward to working on future projects with Kimberly.

December 9, 2017

Comment from Kimberly Rider Interiors:

Thanks Chris! Great job and I agree, let's make some new furniture together!

Chris Nelson

Kimberly helped us immensely with our bathroom remodel we conducted last year. We had all the pieces picked out but had some design issues we needed worked out and she was there for us in a jam. The construction had stopped and she helped get us back on track quickly. She has a keen eye and modern sensibilities that fit well with our tastes and those of many clients in the SF Bay Area. i would recommend her without question! Thank you, Kimberly!!

January 8, 2017

Comment from Kimberly Rider Interiors:

I love working with you both and look forward to helping whenever I can!

Maya Webb

Kimberly did a fantastic job transforming my living space in under 2 months. I was uninspired and had a limited budget and a deadline and she was able to create a timeline and a new look for my home that truly reflects me and my family. I recommend her for any job, big or small and will definitely work with her again in the future.

August 22, 2016

lynncolombo

My husband and I hired Kimberly Rider to remodel our 1960's ranchstyle home into a modern farmhouse open living style home. She has proven to be invaluable. Kimberly is a highly professional, experienced and innovative designer whose ability to work with everyone connected with a project in a timely and poised manner has proven to be invaluable. She keeps me on track with my budget, responds quickly to questions from me or my contractor and completes tasks quickly in order to meet deadlines. I highly recommend her to anyone looking for a designer.

June 8, 2016

Comment from Kimberly Rider Interiors:

I just love working with you and your family, Lynn. It is going to be a fantastic day to behold your new home and get you moved in! What a great project this has been.

Warmly,

Kimberly

Devon Preston

We hired Kimberly Rider Interiors to help us decorate almost every room in our new home when we moved to the area a few years ago. Kimberly and her staff are incredibly professional but super fun to work with! She met deadlines and was clever about keeping us in our budget without compromising quality. She's got great style, a great attitude, super organized!

May 26, 2016

Comment from Kimberly Rider Interiors:

Thank you Devon! Your family and the work we do together is always so creative and collaborative. I'm super excited about our next project: making a place for family memories and activities in the years to come! -Kimberly

ellenobstler

Eight years ago, we moved into a house with "good bones," but many unattractive aspects. I found and hired Kimberly to make the house our home. She promised to prioritize environmental sustainability and beautify everything. And that she did. The first year Kimberly put together a team to replace cheap fireplaces, lighting, ceiling fans and doors, build cabinets, and transform the entry space with a gorgeous and unique staircase. Since then, we've done countless projects with her; each one has been successful beyond expectation. We get compliments from every visitor to our home. Just last weekend, long-time friends stayed with us and marveled at the exquisite taste displayed. I swear I credited Kimberly. But not enough. Kimberly is a fantastic designer and can make your dreams come true.

May 20, 2016

Comment from Kimberly Rider Interiors:

Thank you Ellen for your years of support as a client, collaborator and friend! I love working with you and sharing our common interests in sustainability, good living and the joy of making your space your own!
xoxo
Kimberly

carolwt

Kimberly was hired for interior design on our home remodel, initially to complete design on two bathrooms. We chose her because she was recommended to us as a "very talented designer," and on our first meeting, she seemed to show genuine enthusiasm for our home and we felt she would bring a fresh eye to our design efforts. After paying her a $4500 retainer fee, with the understanding that she was completing a large project and would not be available for two weeks, we eagerly awaited her availability. After three weeks, without hearing from her, and having several design review issues that were becoming time-sensitive,as construction was moving faster than we anticipated and we needed to instruct our crew on the buildout of the bathrooms, we asked her if she could give time to the layout. The time issue, in all fairness, created an imperfect start to our relationship, as she apparently didn't have time to meet with us and ended up working by email and telephone. In one bathroom, we needed to revise the architect's initial plan because it was not a universal design and we asked Kimberly to review. She submitted a revised design that made absolutely no practical sense and would have involved significant changes to framing and window placement. We ended up modifying the layout ourselves and moved forward. Our experience continued to decline, as we moved forward -- primarily through email contact, asking her to begin pulling together finnish ideas -- specifically tile and overalll design. She never sat down with us and discussed our preferences -- beyond color preferences and -- since there was limited time, suggested we meet at the tile store and begin looking at tile. As we walked around the tile store, she lead us to tile lines that she liked-- and since there are many beautiful tile lines, some sample ideas were generated. After about an hour, Kimberly "had to run" to her next meeting, and we were left to continue looking at tile. Afterwards, she sent an email saying how she was thrilled we found tile on our first meeting. Let's just say it went down from there. When we brought the tile samples home, we realized that while they were nice, we didn't have an overall plan for the bathroom, and were not sure the look was the direction we really wanted. When I contacted Kimberly, and explained that we really needed to have more of a story board for the overall design, she was surprised that we needed a drawing -- but said she would work on one and get it to us. But it was really more of a "gosh, I don't know why you need this." Our experience went downhill from here. We should have ceased working with her as soon as it was obvious that she had not even bothered to set up an initial design meeting with us, and that the few times we did meet, she always was rushing from somewhere or to somewhere and didn't have time. We hired Kimberly expecting a collaborative relationship in which she would spend a bit of time with us to get a sense of our preferences--and meld those preferences with her design talents to create spaces that were consistent with our homestyle yet had her stamp of creative vision. There was no collaboration. If you are staging a home for a realtor (which I understand is how she got started in interior design), I suppose you just need to come in and "do your thing." I got the sense that Kimberly works very well with carte blanche design. We finally terminated our relationship after spending several months trying to make it work. OUr mistake. In our final telephone conversation, when I expressed my disappointment with our experience -- and the feeling that she didn't really make time for us, she offered no apology,nor assumed any responsibility for what had gone wrong in our working relationship. She said she would refund the balance of our retainer, which as it turned out was less than $400. We spent $4000 and ended up with bathrooms unfinished. For our tight budget this really hurt. (a month after terminating our agreement, Kimberly sent a project notebook documenting all of her "work" -- primarily clippings from magazines that were never shown to us -- and an excel listing of her telephone calls, design time, and the 3 vendor visits, plus one face-to-face meeting at our home, which added up to our $4000 in hourly charges.) Buyer beware. Kimberly is creative, but with aspirations to create product lines, write books, and become a high end event designer, her ego seems to get in her way a bit.

June 29, 2012Last modified:August 30, 2013

Comment from Kimberly Rider Interiors:

I would like to respond to this review as I think it highlights the problems that can occur if a client decides to hire a designer when they are very late in the design process or if their expectations around budget or timing are not feasible.

The designer and client relationship is a collaborative and dynamic one, requiring mutual respect and trust built upon by time spent together. Clear goals, a realistic budget and timeline and a process that everyone participates in lay the path for a successful job.

On this project, my firm was asked to come in and look at several areas of the home:
1.Kitchen Updates and updated lighting and décor for breakfast room
2.Small Sitting Room fireplace and furniture layout
3.Closet, Window and Room layout for the mother-in-law suite
4.3 bathrooms including a master bath
5.Master Bedroom
6.Formal Living Room and adjacent office.

To begin work, we requested a retainer and billed hourly for our Conceptual Design work and meetings. As we were already working on another project that was slated to be ending in about two weeks, we let the client know we could not start right away.

We met several times to review each of the areas and obtain the existing drawings for each area. Photographs and measurements were obtained. Every member of the family had different ideas about what style was desired and each of those opinions were taken into account in the design process. In the bathrooms, the construction was already fully in framing and rough plumbing and electrical installation. Issues had come up that I was asked to respond to onsite and in a brainstorming session we discussed some solutions. One idea helped solve the problem, but did require some reframing. The decision to pursue a costly change this late in the game was not pursued…understandably.

My design process involves in-depth meetings and image collection and sharing so that we can produce Mood Boards, Floor plans, Renderings (with materials rendered to scale) and detailed specifications. These detailed renderings and material recommendations were provided for the Formal Living Room and Office, Floor Plans were provided for the mother-in-law suite, Master Suite and Living Room. Design recommendations and style direction in the form of images were provided for the kitchen updates, the sitting room fireplace, ideas for updating the breakfast room and Living Room lighting and redesigning the office and master bedroom.

It became clear that tile selections were needed immediately for two of the bathrooms. Images of other bathrooms showing style direction were shared and in seeing that the client liked what she saw, meetings were set to shop for tile in person. After a one hour meeting at the tile store, the small guest bath shower tile was selected, recommendations for a way to update but use the existing vanity were presented and an idea for the main guest bath tile was discovered. This main guest bath tile needed a detailed layout, custom glass tile color selection and rendering. Color Strike off Samples were requested for this tile. This detailed, color, to-scale rendering was provided for the client and tile store and was the tile that they eventually purchased and installed (even though a less expensive alternative was entertained and discussed). I was never told during the process that the tile selections were worrisome for any family member, merely just enthusiasm over how beautiful the tile was and a wish that it wasn’t the more expensive option.

Inevitably, the focus of this review is on how rushed and stressful the process felt for the client. I think it could have been avoided had I been brought in months prior to the project starting. I understand a similar experience happened for this client in her last project where the value that a designer can bring was not fully realized.

I strive to listen to my clients’ feedback, taking into account responsibility when something does not go well for either part of the relationship. I know how important it is to be sure my firm is given enough time and budget to do our job well. Over the last 18 years of working in this industry I have learned a lot and know that our current design process and repeat clients tell me we are doing work and creating an environment that can be collaborative, fun and satisfying.

And yes, I have written two books, designed for celebrity clients, curated high-end eco-fundraising events and had an absolute blast doing it, it’s not at all about my ego. I just truly love what I do and am blessed to be able to share this amazing joy and passion with my clients, family and friends!

Respectfully,

Kimberly Rider

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Commented: Any idea what paint color was used on the walls here?It was several years ago, but Navajo White would be a similar feel.

March 28, 2019

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April 20, 2018 in Design Dilemma

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April 20, 2018

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March 29, 2018

Commented: Island CountertopYes, it is natural walnut with a clear satin finish

February 3, 2018

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