Transforming your property into a home you’re proud to live in requires meticulous attention to detail and the insights of dedicated interior design experts. At the Reflective Designer, we have decades of experience in helping people bring their design ideas to life. Today, we deliver a first-class service to hundreds of customers across our respective service areas, producing awe-inspiring results every time.
An interior design team with decades of experience
All great interior design teams benefit from a multidisciplinary approach and the Reflective Designer is no different. Our journey began in 1980 when The Reflective Designer was founded in North Shore, Boston
Originally, the business supplied only draperies and valances to its clients. Shades, blinds, and shutters, along with carpeting and area rugs were soon to follow.
With the acquisition of two brick and mortar stores in Middleton and Stow, MA, The Reflective Designer now had the showroom space to present a wide variety of home furnishings including upholstered goods.
We consolidated locations in 2018 to our Metro West studio in Stow, MA. At Stow, there is an intimate showroom setting where you can sample several of the American made upholstery lines, bedding, area rugs, and more.
The Reflective Designer will bring your home to life
When you’re in the pursuit of changing the way your property looks, finding the perfect vision is the easy part. Bringing that vision to life often means discovering the right furniture stores and other such providers. When you’re approaching an area as personal as your home, it’s often difficult to envision all the unique features you’ll need to make your dream a reality.
At the Reflective Designer, we’ve worked hard to create long-lasting relationships with manufacturers and suppliers. Today, we know who are the best vendors and craftspeople and what they can bring to our clients’ properties. No matter what your interior design ideas are, we’re confident we can find the items you need to give your property the makeover you’ve always dreamed of.
Decorating homes throughout Stow, Metro West Boston, The Cape and Islands, NH Lakes region and beyond.
Decorating properties and finding creative ways to exceed our clients' expectations is our passion. At the Reflective Designer, we’re always finding ways to make our endeavors more successful for our clients. As the “go to” experts for all aspects of interior design and furnishings throughout our service areas, we have drawn on the diverse skillset of our individual designers to produce enviably elegant results wherever we work.
If you believe the Reflective Designer is the right team for you, we invite you to visit our showroom to see what we can do for your property.
At the Reflective Designer, we hope to dress homes for many years to come. If you would like to use our services to bring your property to life, call us at 978-897-7767 to speak to our team.
Why Does My Decorating Fall Flat?
You’ve spent hours online looking at Pins, gotten all the catalogs, and finally placed your order for your new furniture and décor. The big day for delivery arrived and it was a bit anti-climactic. The trumpets didn’t blare and the angels didn’t sing. Your room looked nice enough but just didn’t have that pizazz you thought it would.
Two things at work here:
All material objects have an energy field. Before you stop reading and think this is a bit “woo-woo”, you definitely have experienced this. If you get uncomfortably close to another person, this is an example. If objects like furniture are not placed properly, your room feels “off”.
Of course objects don’t have energy fields like living beings but they do occupy a certain place in relationship to their environment. In design, we call these principles scale, proportion, and procession. These are abstract concepts and as such, elude most homeowners when it comes to decorating and furnishing their homes. You can’t order them online yet they are an essential component of every successful interior plan. Most of my clients think that if they just purchase the right things that the room will fall into place…and most of the time it doesn’t happen because the basic principles of design have not been at the foundation.
The placement of objects create hidden lines and shapes which you do not see, but your mind’s eye does. Horizontal and vertical lines, triangles, circles begin to emerge once you group objects together. Some of these shapes elicit repose, others create movement, and others create chaos. Did you ever wonder why there is a room in your house which nobody uses? Most likely because one or more of these elements is making it uncomfortable to be in.
Science is art and art is science. We used to think that they were on different ends of the spectrum but not really. If you were to plot your room like a histogram, you would see the areas of high interest and those bearing little. To put it another way, a well decorated room is like a sine wave, it contains rhythm and repetition within a certain desired frequency range.
This is how I approach the design of a room. Yes, the furnishings should be beautiful and please the eye and senses. However, the underlying foundation is what makes it sing. The result is a “wow” experience and is the reason which separates the professional result from the layperson’s.
Furnishing a home is not inexpensive. The last thing you want to do is be stuck with costly items which turn out to be regrets. Your professional designer will not allow for mistakes. They will save you time and worry while working under the direction of your particular tastes. If you engage with a “designer” who has a certain look to their work or uses digital color matching tools, run far away. Many people who have not used design services fear that their designer will take over and provide them with things they do not like. A professional does not do this. To be sure you engage with a pro, look for someone with formal training and a membership in a national design organization. A professional designer will help you make your home “you, but better!”.
