I recently redecorated my house using a professional decorator, Amy Schwartz. Working with Amy was a pleasure. She quickly honed in on my style preferences and presented me with a number of different options for the major furniture pieces. She found tables and lamps that I would have never found on my own. She has a keen sense when it comes to paint colors and fabric selections. The painters and contractors that she used were excellent and professional. After the painting and reupholstering was done and furniture was delivered and in place, Amy picked the little finishing touches that added splashes of color and style that completed the look I wanted. My home is now decorated beautifully in a style that is all me. I love it!!
Ross Myerson
Silver Spring, MD
Our experience with Amy Schwartz interiors has been nothing short of exceptional. We embarked on a complete update and redesign of our 5000 square foot home. Amy Schwartz Interiors provided us with the most collaborative, productive and unique experience we have had in decorating and designing a home. Never have we worked with a professional who helped manifest our vision more completely. Amy is fiscally prudent and she has a competent and professional network of vendors, manufacturers and tradespeople. She provided complete interior design services including furniture/fabric selection, floor and wall coverings, paint consultation and selection of art and accessories. Each space reflects our personal aesthetic and our functional needs. All of this and a sense of humor too!
Sue Ellen Horwitz
Raleigh, NC
Amy did a great job of understanding exactly how we needed our space to function and created a great design to maximize the use of our kitchen and family room areas. She also understood early on the style we liked so her choices always matched our vision. The time and stress we saved by having her narrow down our options and work closely with our contractor was invaluable. I would definitely recommend her.
Tiffany Violante
Gaithersburg, MD
Amy helped us essentially renovate our entire house over a period of several years, including kitchen, bathrooms, floors, walls, and furnishings. She was phenomenal and full service, acting as the point of contact (and advocate) with our contractors, shepherding projects from inception to conclusion. She was also very efficient, being hands on and in person when necessary, but also working remotely to keep things moving and on track. She worked with us on our budgets and always presented various options so we could make the best decisions. And most of all, she has terrific taste that really meshed with ours and our vision for what we wanted to do. We highly recommend Amy!
Jamie & Brian Ratne
Potomac, MD
Amy Schwartz and her associates remodeled by master bathroom and created a walk-in closet in the bedroom. They came up with a wonderful layout and the tile, counter top, backsplash materials she brought for me to choose from were spot-on for what I was looking for. Her finishing touches with lighting, mirrors, faucets, paint colors, artwork, etc. for the final look were perfect. Everything they did was beautifully done, and at a reasonable cost. I will definitely be using Amy Schwartz Interiors for my next decorating and/or remodeling project. My only regret is not hearing of her when I was having my kitchen remodeled 7 years ago.
Rhonda Mueller
Alexandria, VA
Amy Schwartz Interiors is fantastic. I am a busy working mom and don’t have the time or eye for interior design to redecorate my home. That is why I called Amy to redo my basement, family and living rooms. She makes it stylish, easy and affordable. She understands my style My husband and I are thrilled with the results and will continue to use her.
Jennifer Golder
Gaithersbug, MD
I am so glad I met Amy when I needed advice on updating the color scheme in my main living area. I had no idea where to start – walls, curtains, furniture, etc. She helped me get started and was able to do things gradually so I could afford to make some changes. I LOVE the results, and LOVE working with her – she has great taste and so many good ideas. It’s a completely different way of doing things and it fits my style. I’ve got a million dollar look on a bargain hunting budget!
Kathy Troxell
New Market, MD
Guess what? I am going with your original paint selections . . .but you knew that already didn’t you! I have to tell you– I took my paint boards over to a friends house to show her and the colors were perfect. Holding them up to my walls didn’t do them justice, as you had said but I didn’t get it. Felipe will be doing the painting at the end of October. 2 months later….. The colors you had selected are beautiful and have changed the entire feel of my home. I still can’t believe what a difference it made. The staircase is so beautiful and changes tones/shades throughout the day — sometimes, I swear they are different paint colors! Love it. The family room with the artic grey just gives such warm and open feel — really thought I had to go towards yellows/golds – thank you thank you. Overall I love it. Thank you again – you’re the BEST!
Lizanne Selthoffer
Gaithersburg, MD
We are enjoying our living room tremendously, as well as the hardwood and carpet runner on the stairs and the hallway upstairs. I really love this carpet it feels and looks so good. The color was the perfect choice! And the wall color is terrific, too. It’s also warm and calming. Thank you so much for helping to pull it all together! I think you are a great interior decorator, easy to work with, and you’re very good at listening to your client and working with their taste and style.
Sharon Oremland
Rockville, MD
We LOVE LOVE LOVE the bedroom color!! I really didn’t think there was going to be a good color for that room… I will never doubt you again!
Nancy Millman
Gaithersburg, MD
I’ve been wanting to tell you how delighted I am with the paint colors you selected for us. They really do make a big difference in how our home looks! You have such an amazing discerning eye for color! So thank you for your help. I know you only spent a short time here, but you had a big impact on the way our home is now looking & how I feel about it.
At Amy Schwartz Interiors, I am committed to creating comfortable, inviting, and practical residential spaces for my clients. My design philosophy can be described as client-focused in style and budget with a passion for making the experience both fun and creative. I work as an interior designer in the DC Metro area, including Maryland, Northern Virginia and DC proper.
Your family room is likely the place you and your family hang out, lounge, binge watch your favorite TV show, host movie night and generally gather. Your next Family Room project will combine practicality, and functionality with comfort when you focus on these family room trends.
My Creative design process is messy and marvelous. If you’ve ever watched a popular television program that portrays Interior Designers executing a design project, you have marveled at the immaculate workspace they create to house their tools of the trade. Let’s just say that my design space resembles my 14-year old son’s room after he has engaged in a frenzied safari searching for the only acceptable t-shirt in his stash of hundreds.
Let’s face it, kids are cute, but they can be messy and a little hard on the home at times. With children playing tag in the living room and trails of goldfish crumbs around the house, the fear of maintaining a newly styled home is real. With proper planning and design, you can still design your dream home with kids!
The quality of custom upholstery pieces may be higher but in a living room where the space has less traffic, the type of frame construction isn't as significant. Read more for some of my most recent favorite stock items that are not custom and can be ordered "as is".
As an Interior Designer in Maryland, which includes the entire DC Metro area, I am consistently and perpetually challenged by the amount of time interior design, renovations, space planning, and basically every part of the process, will and should take.