About us
DESIGNING NAPLES has a wide range of industry knowledge and this can be a check-proof asset to the construction team and to our clients. In essence, we want to plan as well as execute your project. Experienced eyes will see details you are going to miss.
Did you know the role of an “Interior Designer” can be very different from the role of an “Interior Decorator”?
All designers can take on the role of a decorator and work very successfully on your behalf. However, we can offer so much more for you well before the decorating even begins. We bring licensed experience with systemized planning, demo, drywall, electrical, plumbing, and reviewing blueprints with our trades. We bring in architects, engineers, CAD technicians, and specialists when needed. Then we introduce the final selections and decorating of furniture, fabrics, and color to the bones of that beautiful to-be-completed structure called “home”.
Have you ever described a beautiful room to someone who just doesn’t get how wonderful it was to you? Then, they see that room … And finally you hear those words … WOW. Our best interior designs are well-thought-out equations of art and science. It’s a visual success while it’s also analytical success. It’s understanding involves the practice of studying both and then bringing them carefully together. Detail is what we are about with every single client we take on.
DESIGNER
Sarah is a practicing ASID PROFESSIONAL Member Interior Designer and a former ASID Chapter Board Director in Dallas TX and Chicago IL Chapters. The American Society of Interior Design requires adherence to a strict code of ethics, experience, education, and project performance to meet their membership requirements.
She has been practicing award-winning residential interior design with her own firm, DESIGNING NAPLES INC. This involves practice in residential interior design, construction consulting, and project management in Naples FL for the past twenty years.
In Chicago, Sarah was the sole recipient of the coveted ASID “CELEBRATION OF DESIGN AWARD” competing against all practicing Chicago area interior designers for best interior home design. Sarah has received the ASID Presidential Citation for Distinguished Service to the ASID Organization over a period of years during her leadership with ASID in Dallas and Chicago.
Sarah has lived in Columbus OH, Birmingham MI, and Wheaton IL during her formative years. She graduated with a double major B.A. in Art/Art Education and minored in French from WHEATON COLLEGE. Upon receiving her Bachelor’s Degree, she attended Chicago’s RAY-VOGUE SCHOOL OF DESIGN and then worked towards her MFA Degree at Northern IL University. Sarah has taught on all levels of education including as an adjunct professor position with COLLEGE OF DUPAGE in Illinois.
ACCOLADES
ASID "Celebration of Design" First Place Award Winner
Chicago
ASID Board, Director, Service Award
Chicago
ASID Board, Director, Service Award
Dallas