Following These Inspiring Interior Designers?

With so much creative talent on our social feeds, it can be hard to keep up! Whose work stops your scroll? What decorating or design shows do you find yourself watching and re-watching? If you could have anyone travel to you and redesign your interiors, which of these inspiring interior designers would you choose?

Green checks, upholstered bed, Boxwood wallpaper, and a mix of patterns in a Summer Thornton Design bedroom. #summerthornton — Summer Thornton – Inspiring interior designers we love to follow!

Following These Inspiring Interior Designers?

Since this is the 15th year we have been spotlighting work from top designers around the world, you might think seeing lovely timeless designs gets a bit old…but nope!

Summer Thornton

There is always exciting new work emerging and freshly creative approaches to admire. What IS a little different is when we see work from various designers side by side. These bedroom designs from Summer Thornton will kick off our parade of must follow designers.

Green leafy wallpaper and Boxwood curtains in a sitting area of bedroom designed by Summer Thornton. #summerthornton — Design: Summer Thornton

What’s exciting about Summer’s work is the whimsical, open-hearted wonder of it all. It’s about fantasy and fun–no need to match patterns and prints and colors when you can mix them any way you please! See more of her work in THIS.

Loi Thai

Former antique dealers Tom and Loi, are well known for their beautiful interiors and gardens which reflect New England classic style!

If it’s a new IG account to you, you are in for joyous beauty as you discover the magic of their properties (1860s Maine summer house and 1930s Annapolis cottage).

Does this shift you into an autumn mood?

Loi Thai's breathtaking Maine cottage in fall - @ourmainecottage. #newenglandfall #historicottages #fallcottages — @ourmainecottage

Casa Gusto

Here’s how this creative family describes their studio:

“’Sexy and provocative is the goal as well as wanting to repurchase everything in the shop for myself,’ says Cris Briger co-proprietor with her son Charles Peed.

Casa Gusto. Gusto Paneled Papier-mâché - everything from the walls to the ceiling. — Casa Gusto

The two exude excitement for all that is within. It is a very personal journey sought after and now going public in a mutual love of the hunt, chase, and capture of all that is….. GUSTO.”

Jennifer Lincoln-Cutler

Oh, this designer’s eye and taste! I want to live inside every impeccable French-inspired interior she creates.

The French blue of those twin beds! I’m just so grateful for all of the glimpses of this busy Arizona designer’s timelessly evolving home which she is lovingly renovating room by room.

Cathy Kincaid Interiors

Known for her commitment to restore old houses and adorn interiors with traditional style, antiques, and furnishings, this designer knows her way around comfortable elegance.

Elegant traditional interior design by Cathy Kincaid. #traditionalstyle #elegantdecor #timelessdesign — Cathy Kincaid Interiors

Get lost in the beauty of her work which decorates a historic Beaux Arts estate in Dallas, a 1750s ship captain’s cottage in Connecticut, and a mas de Baraquet in the SOF!

Marie Flanigan

Trained as an architect, Marie uniquely considers interiors as well as structure…resulting in harmony and sophistication.

If you admire elegant simplicity and timeless tranquility, you will fall in love with her portfolio!

Timeless bedroom with velvet headboard and paneled door - design by Marie Flanigan. #timelessbedrooms — Marie Flanigan

Pamela Pierce

Images from the MILIEU founder’s own beautiful Houston home are precious and few so they’re pure gold to this admirer. It is what isn’t in her spaces that so often delights. We don’t miss extraneous filler, the obligatory layered rugs, jolting pops of color, or shiny bling.

Instead, there’s quiet. There’s reverence for Old World, geometric playfulness (notice the repetitive arches and curve of the French stone mantel), understated grandeur, and gently meditative restraint.

Stunning French Country kitchen with white cabinetry, bull head, steel doors, stainless work island, and design by Pamela Pierce. — Pamela Pierce

Shannon Bowers

This kitchen moment in Milieu’s Showhouse 2020 did me in! What a genius way to infuse texture and personality into a minimal luxe kitchen design by Shannon Bowers.

Notice the mystique and magic suspended from an attic bedroom ceiling she designed as well!

Beautiful timeless attic bedroom with wallpapered ceiling and antique pendant light - Shannon Bowers Design. #timelessbedroom #timelessdesign #romanticbedrooms — Shannon Bowers Design

Suzanne Kasler

She’s known as “the designer’s designer” for good reason, and we celebrated her HERE.

Elegant, serene, well-edited rooms blossom with her touch and discerning eye. I’m ever inspired by her color palettes and the subtle manner in which she layers color.

Cece Barfield Thompson

Cece’s wee light-filled kitchen simply thrilled me when I glimpsed it! Are you charmed too?

Her thoughtfully appointed Gramercy Park apartment is not just pretty to look at, it serves a young family. From the Susan Harter mural-papered walls to the ticking striped dining room, you will be sighing. Take a peek:

Brooke and Steve Giannetti

They are a dream team, and I just love them. And they know it because I told them so in a phone interview and in person when I visited them in their Tennessee shop, Patina Home & Garden.

Giannetti Home designed Malibu bathroom with rustic elegance in Luxe Magazine. — Luxe Magazine – photography: Lisa Romerein, design: Giannetti Home, styling: Erin Taylor, produced by: Lisa Bingham Dewart

Is it the sunny, earthy, organic, pared-back elegance in the work? The resultant romance and magic permeating from the mix of old and new?

Serene minimal bedroom - Patina Farm (Brooke Giannetti) European country farmhouse in Ojai. #patinafarm #vintagemodern #modernrustic #romanticbedroom — Velvet and Linen

YES. But it’s something more too. They follow their hearts, come what may…there’s much to honor in such a journey.

Jill Egan

She indeed knows her way around European inspired sophisticated interiors. But is her secret weapon maybe how she makes them provocatively SING?

Modern French dining room with antique farm table, Swedish apothecary chest, and crystal chandelier by Ochre. #modernfrench #diningrooms — Interior Design: Jill Egan, Architecture: Kirby Mears, Photography: Kerry Kirk

After all, music involves artistry and mathematics. A former math teacher, this designer solves challenging equations, plays with proportion, and works magic with light.

Luxurious marble bath in Kirby Mears designed home for Jill Egan in Houston. — Jill Egan designed guest bath with limestone floors and marble

Greet Lefevre

If you have followed BELGIAN PEARLS blog for as long as I have, then you know the brilliant Greet. Hers is an unerring eye for beauty, quality, craftsmanship, and comfort.

Extolling the virtues of Belgian design through Lefevre Interiors, her own furniture collection, and an inspiration blog, Greet’s work reflects integrity and warmth.

Timeless design in the Belgian home and gardens of Greet Lefèvre. #belgianstyle #europeancountry — Greet’s Belgian home

Sherry Hart

It’s not just her love of neutrals and gorgeous way with texture, it’s the way she layers and mixes with a light hand and a lightness of spirit. Oh, and how she selects paint colors like a magician and then shares them so they go viral!

Have you been following the soothing classic work of THE beloved goddess we call SHERRY as long as I have?

Classic and luxurious white kitchen designed by Sherry Hart for the Brookhaven project. #whitekitchen #kitchendesign #classickitchen #traditionalkitchen — Sherry Hart…designers & interiors from a few favorite to inspire!

psst. Sherry, please don’t ever stop making us laugh while teaching us to style shelves.

Carolyn Malone

How in the world does she maintain such exquisite simplicity in her spaces? They feel natural, ethereal, and evolved.

I’ll never tire of elegance that emerges from restraint! This kitchen above is from a home (architecture by Stan Dixon) in Veranda (2017), and the ceiling is right out of my dreams.

Leanne Ford

Years ago, I chatted on the phone with the late Bonnie Broten who had just styled a room for a shoot designed by Leanne Ford. She called and was all “you’ve GOT to check out this new designer Leanne–she paints everything white, is laid back, and loves the things you love.”

Back then, Leanne was unknown, and Bonnie’s excitement was well founded! Leanne creates with such profound untethered freedom and joy, and she seems to hold her successes with such deep humility.

Leanne Ford white decor moment in HOUSE BEAUTIFUL (photo: @rusticwhiteinteriors; styling: @therobertrufino). #allwhitedecor #leanneford — *House Beautiful* (photo: @rusticwhiteinteriors – styling: @therobertrufino)

Oh…and she digs white. Like a lot.

Inspirational quote about nature's beauty and wisdom by John Muir on Hello Lovely Studio. #inspirationalquote #quotes #johnmuir #naturequotes

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Peace to you right where you are.

-michele

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