Interior Designs & Decor, LLC

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We have a large area downstairs (about 4,000 sq ft) where a pool had been removed and/or bulldozed over. Some rooms had been partially completed adjoining that area. We were struggling to come up with plans to help plumbers, electricians, etc. work in that vacant area. I called Teresa Davis and once she was on-board with this project, it went from agony to fun. Her ideas and suggestions were wonderful and she worked with us to develop an area that most appropriately considered function while incorporating the style my family was interested in using.
Some of the ideas we initially had concerning the area would have been disasters but Teresa very kindly worked out the kinks, measured the areas, put plans on computer-generated program that allowed us to see how the project would look after completion from several angles. Professionally drawn plans are a huge advantage to us while we are getting quotes from plumbers, electricians, etc.
Having plans that are properly drawn by a professional who considered our needs and our desires has been the most intelligent thing we have done since starting this project. I would highly recommend Teresa Davis to anyone BUT particularly to those people who, like us, thought that drawing up plans was a D.I.Y. project. I am sure any money we paid to Teresa will be offset by funds we would have had to use to correct our mistakes if we had progressed without her.
On a totally personal note: Teresa is fun and I enjoyed chatting with her. She is a good person and I would trust her with any project. I am planning on re-doing the upstairs in my home and she will be the first person I call.

While this was a very small job, the provider had done a great deal of other work prior to that. She is an extremely talented decorator who takes the time to get to know the client and their likes and dislikes. She always provides several options to choose from and has helped me to decorate several rooms in my new home I look forward to continuing to work with this vendor. I highly recommend her.

We bought a foreclosed property that we intended to remodel the living room, kitchen and dining room to create a single large open room. In working with Teresa we learned that other parts of the house could be addressed at the same time with significant savings incurred due to contractors being on location, etc. She was right! We ended up transforming the entire house for lees than expected. Teresa kept to schedule in spite of issues cropping up. She provided continuous guidance to keep the overall design integerty in place. A real pleasure to work with. I would recommend anyone planning to remodel, contact Teresa Davis first!

. Teresa started off well. She asked us to fill out a survey form identifying how we wanted the house to look. We agreed to work on the blinds, shutters, window treatments, great room, dinette, dining room and to make suggestions on the living room. We also asked her to select barstools for the kitchen are that extends to the great room.
The blinds and shutters were installed well and were attractive. After the shutters were installed rugs were ordered before furnishings, a mistake. Some rugs were fine and fit the eventual decor, some did not. Se did send one back herself. She ordered one for the living room without our approval and had to return it. That was the first indication that things were going the wrong way. The dinette, was not exactly what we wanted but it was ok. The dining room table was fine, but we insisted that it be the one ordered, she strongly recommended one that was dark and imposing. It would have been a disaster.
A major issue was one of scale. All of the furnishings she selected and ordered were of good quality, but they were not the right size. She ordered a very large oil painting for an alcove in the hallway. It was not the right scale for the opening and very imposing. In fact, her sense of scale was not appropriate in general She ordered a coffee table and an end table to go in front of the sofa in the great room that was way too large. We had to send them back. She was very angry about that, since she purchased it with no return privileges, a very unwise business practice. Many of the occasional pieces were too large for their intended use. She did order very lovely floral arrangements and a large artificial palm arrangement for the great room that was attractive

In general, she did not listen to us. She effectively wanted us to trust her to make most, if not all, the decisions. When things didn't work out, she became defensive and said that no one else had ever sent anything back or had been unhappy with her services. Towards the end she was writing us long and rambling emails that were designed to justify her actions. The emails did say she wanted us to be satisfied, but in the end, she terminated the relationship before finishing the job, canceling the order for the sofa and chairs without our knowledge (after they had been ordered for over two months) because she had difficulty ordering them. We requested that she give us the ordering information for them. but she refused, saying she didnt recommend them at that point. She didn't want to have to send them back. When we insisted, she wrote a final email to my husband saying how difficult I was to work with and that she would give us the information for 100.00 dollars. it was obvious she was finished and that she had written us off as customers.

We found her to be difficult to work with and unprofessional in her attitudes and actions. We would not recommend her to others.