AndrinaPaladin Designs

Andrina designed a major living room remodel for our relatively small home (fourteen hundred square feet). This entailed removing walls, floors, pot shelves, and the old fireplace. New ceiling lights both illuminate the space as well as wash certain walls and art work. She also helped us replace all of our living room furniture with that having a more transitional aesthetic. She also assisted us in choosing rugs, pillows, and art work. One of her skills lies in being able to choose paint colors for the walls that enhance the outside light being reflected throughout the room. The outstanding centerpiece of our remodel, however, is our new fireplace. This beautiful feature garners a great deal of praise from all who see it for the first time. We would definitely use Andrina again and recommend her work to others.

My family had just completed building our brand new 7,000 sq ft luxury vacation villa located in Cancun, Mexico. With lots of empty space, it was now time to select furnishings, color (interior and exterior), textiles, etc to make the house come alive, however we did not have the artistic talent to pull this off ourselves, so it was time to research the best interior designer we could find in the states. An acquaintance had suggested Andrina Paladin Designs in San Clemente, CA. After looking at her past work, I was convinced that Andrina was artistically talented enough to showcase the architecture details of the villa while reflecting the stunning natural setting of the Caribbean beach atmosphere. We had sent her pictures of every room so she could start thinking about blending colors, textures, and furniture layout because we realized that the design process and implementation requires time and planning for such a large house. We managed to get her to Mexico where she could finally see the villa. Right away, we felt very comfortable working with Andrina. She is a great communicator and easy to talk to, and understood our needs, wants, goals, and budget. Once here, she studied the entire villa room by room, then started to harmoniously suggest colors, textures, furniture layout, wall art, etc while providing us sketches of every room layout with a color scheme. She even designed the poolside pergola area and exterior colors as well and involved us in all the suggestions and decisions, and even went shopping with us to select everything. She has an excellent eye, a unique ability to involve creative elements, and is so good at what she does, that working with her is effortless and we began to trust her every decision. Yes, Andrina did a beautiful job on our new home! Her creativity and attention to every detail are highlights of what she does best. It was a pleasure working with Andrina and I would highly recommend her without hesitation – she is a true artist in every sense of the word and we are absolutely thrilled with the final result.

I hired Andrina for much needed help on a project of mine in Tulum Mexico. The project was very large and having no background in design or a sense of how to decorate I looked to her for help. She was amazing! I was so impressed by the vision she had for each and every space. The villa is about 7000 square feet and a very large project. I didn't know where to start and took great comfort in her confidence and take charge attitude. She listened to my likes and dislikes and helped arrive at some really impacting paint choices that helped transform cold grey spaces into warm inviting living spaces. From there we rolled through decor decisions, textiles, pillows, accessories, and on and on. She was quite progressive in her tastes and helped me take some risks that I otherwise would not have take, all of which really paid off. Every corner of the villa looks so fresh, clean, and cool! It felt like a whirlwind but the vision she had for the villa and it's spaces were spot on. I'm so happy how it turned out! I really don't know how I could have made it happen without her help.

AndrinaPaladin Designs Recommendation We enlisted the design services of AndrinaPaladin Designs for the complete renovation of our originally traditional New England style, single-level beach house, into a contemporary, open, light and airy living space. The remodel included removal of a kitchen/dining room wall to provide an open concept, and the removal of a central double-sided fireplace to open the living room area. A new fireplace was installed, dated soffits were removed, ceilings were modified, skylights added and both bathrooms were completely gutted and remodeled. During the entire process Andrina demonstrated exceptional professionalism. She kept the project moving and more importantly, us on-track and on-budget by working with us to make literally over a hundred decisions ranging from material selections (paint, stain, stone, tile, glass, etc.), to hardware selection. Andrina's research, planning and schedule management facilitated the entire project. Throughout the process she helped us to visualize the finished product with the use of sketches and renderings. I can't imagine the average homeowner taking on this level of responsibility themselves. Andrina possessed the ability to listen to our ideas and then skillfully guided us to a design we absolutely love. We quickly learned to trust her recommendations, and quickly established a wonderful partnership. When construction was nearing completion, we finalized the selection of the furnishings, which made the move in process very exciting. The finished product was more awesome than we could have ever imagined. I would highly recommend AndrinaPaladin Designs to anyone who is looking for a professional, competent, creative and highly organized interior designer.

Andrina has worked with me on three residences over the past fifteen years in both Seattle and New York. She transformed my spaces each time with original and inspired flair. Her eye for detail is impeccable. I love sitting at my granite bar sipping coffee every morning-just one of Andrina's fantastic suggestions!