Affordable Interior Design

If they find a dining chair for $100 and the same dining chair for $200 elsewhere, it benefits them to show you the $200 option. Then they get a 20% trade discount and mark up your price 30%. Voila, you pay more for a piece that is often available for much less. These virtual plans are created by inexperienced newbies, underpaid designers, or foreign bots. The companies lure you in with low fees. Behind the scenes, they're shopping a handful of stores from which they get big kickbacks. I opened Affordable Interior Design on a mission.

Our designers have worked at high-end places (Armani, Thom Filicia, Inc., The Metropolitan Museum, Soho Grand Hotel, etc.) where we spent thousands on furnishings from exclusive boutiques for our clients. But that's not where we shopped for ourselves. We translated luxe looks to fit our budgets at places like West Elm, Overstock, & Ikea. In 2005, our founder had an ah-ha moment: "Let's do this for our friends, our family, everyone we know!" Betsy is the owner of Affordable Interior Design and a nationally celebrated interior designer.