Pinney Designs

We have worked with Pinney Designs on multiple projects. Their involvement has ranged from small scale design and selection assistance to full interior design and project management. Emily has a great sense of design and she has the ability to let her clients inform the design, or take the lead when necessary. I would highly recommend Pinney Designs for any project, large or small.

Emily and her team are very detail oriented and organized - they know exactly what they want/need before they reach out to reps - gives less room for confusion and mistakes. They are the perfect team to get the job done, and done well! i can't wait to work on the next project with you!

Pinney Designs is a class act in every way. Emily and all of her staff are not only friendly but knowledgeable and quite detail oriented. They know how to complete a project in a smooth, seamless manner. I always look forward to working with Pinney Designs!

My husband and I are very grateful for Emily and the team at Pinney Designs for their vision and professionalism in the interior design of our newly built out-of-state vacation home. Emily is a great listener and quickly figured out our design preferences and seamlessly worked with us to create beautiful and comfortable spaces. Her experience as a designer was evident as she was easily able to translate our idea of a ‘contemporary farmhouse’ into creative products and furnishings, at varying price points. Her depth of knowledge about the building process and comfort working with the builder was invaluable, including making key design changes and additions during the construction phase. Emily managed almost all aspects of the process including working with the architect, frequent communications with the builder and the builder’s sub-contractors, successfully negotiating with contractors when needed, budgeting and all design decisions. Emily was very accessible via email or phone and every meeting was well planned and very organized, reaffirming our trust in her ability not only as a designer, but also as a project manager. We wholeheartedly recommend Emily and her team for any design project!

Emily and her colleagues could not have been better! When my husband and I called Emily we knew we'd need some design help. Emily was wonderful. She helped us with our "art room," our sons' bedrooms, a playroom, a powder room, and our living room. We loved working with Emily so much and we will definitely use her again when these rooms need updating. We highly recommend Pinney Designs!

Working with Emily and her team at Pinney Designs was a pleasure. Pinney Designs oversaw the design, material selection, contractor selection and project management for our kitchen renovation. Emily's level of professionalism, talent and knowledge of the process was invaluable to move the project forward. Now that we have the opportunity to enjoy our new kitchen, we are beyond impressed with the quality of work and the materials selected.

Fantastic! Emily is a delight to work with. Through and has great ideas and follows through. She worked well with our builders and both of us. We would use her again in a minute.

I really can not recommend Emily Pinney and Pinney Designs more enthusiastically! From start to finish, working with Emily and her team was an incredibly positive experience and we are absolutely overjoyed with the results. See some examples of Emily's work on our house at http://pinneydesigns.com/index.php?id=arlington We hired Emily to help us with the design elements associated with a house we built in Arlington, MA over the last year. As we built the house from the ground up and had Emily involved from the very beginning, not only did she help us pick out beautiful plumbing fixtures, tiles, floors, lighting, etc, she was also instrumental in working with the architect and builder to design the entire kitchen, ensure optimal placement of windows, doors, fixtures, appliances, etc, etc, etc. In other words, her work went way beyond the beautiful interior design decisions she helped us make and she really became a project manager that I came to rely upon enormously. That became even more true when we unexpectedly moved overseas halfway through the project and Emily took on even more responsibility for ensuring the smooth completion of the project. Her extensive experience in working with contractors, tradespeople and other vendors and ability to speak their language and know when to push was invaluable to us and not only saved us time and money but resulted in a much better final product. Of the many reasons why I have loved working with Emily the most important are probably her professionalism and proactiveness. I trust Emily completely as she always acts with the utmost integrity and honesty which, given the very large scope of the project we worked on together was very important to me (and which can sometimes be sadly lacking). She runs her business in an extremely organized and professional way and was always very proactive, accessible, and a great communicator. Emily always went out of her way to proactively research less expensive and/or higher quality options for me to choose from. This extra effort benefitted ME, not her, and I was always impressed by her willingness, selflessness and enthusiasm in going the extra mile. Finally, Emily was always a fantastic listener and struck a really great balance between truly listening to me and incorporating my ideas, while at the same time saving me from myself in some cases by overriding those ideas with her own considerable expertise. She deftly walks the fine line between incorporating the client's crazy ideas and making sure the final product benefits from her design knowledge. I never felt like Emily was trying to force her own personal style into our house (even though I wouldn't have minded since she has such a great eye), but rather that she took the time to get to know me so that she could help me make the most of my own personal tastes. Emily's collaborative style is one that worked really, really well for us. We are looking forward to continuing to work with Emily when we return from overseas next year to finish off the remaining interior design elements of the house. Already her ideas for furniture, colors, etc are beautiful and incorporate her great personal style, eye for details, and surprisingly astute understanding of what appeals to me. Emily is a pleasure to work with and I look forward to having a relationship with her for a long time to come!

Emily has been involved in the design of our home since per-construction and has been a true pleasure to work with from design creation to execution. She is a true professional who easiily connects with her clients and incorporate their ideas and vision, but it is her skilled eye that makes things really special and unique to the homeowner (she has also worked with a number of friends and colleagues- they are all thrilled with her finished product). My husband and I look forward to our meetings with Emily because of her positive energy and creative eye - she is a very talented, young designer who has a great future ahead of her. Hire her before she gets too busy!

Emily helped me redesign my fitness studio from start to finish. She was very helpful picking out the right colors and design to set the mood I wanted. Her choices were great for maximizing space and increasing the efficiency of the space I have. She helped me to see things in a way that allowed us to completely transform the look and feel of our space.

Emily and her team are true professionals in every sense of the word. Having seen her work in design magazines and in person at a friend's house, I was thrilled when she took us on as clients! I cannot overemphasize how pleased I am with the final result. She was able to transform a hardly livable area of our home into one of the most frequently used spaces that we enjoy regularly. This was only accomplished by her listening to every little request we made. She really is exceptional in her ability to transfer client's requests into EXACTLY what you're looking for. I highly recommend Emily and her team for any design project.

Emily is a talented designer, with a great eye for detail and color. A true advocate to her clients, Emily is a pleasure to work with.