Janine Ducoin Arnold Interior Design, LLC

I am very happy to recommend Janine Arnold. She helped me to decorate several rooms in our current home as well as several rooms in our previous home years ago. She is a pleasure to work with as well as being knowledgeable, responsive, detail-oriented and organized. Janine helped me to find and put together just the right fabrics, furniture, lighting and other accessories. She always kept in mind my ideas while at the same time offering insightful suggestions to produce better results than I could have anticipated. She was attuned to my wishes in terms of style, budget and pace. She is a great problem solver and was able to find solutions to various decorating obstacles that arose. All in all, working with Janine is enjoyable, productive and rewarding and I hope to work with her again on future decorating projects.

I highly recommend Janine Ducoin Arnold. She is a pleasure to work with, is extremely knowledgeable and is a consummate professional. She is also a lovely person. Our project was complicated but Janine made everything look easy. We needed to remodel one bathroom on our second floor and add two additional ones. We couldn’t envision how we could accomplish this but Janine led us calmly through the process. From working with the architect, to finding a contractor, to choosing plumbing fixtures, tiles, marble and paint colors, Janine created three fabulous bathrooms that we love. She made sure that our new bathrooms are in harmony with the architectural detail and colors elsewhere in the home. She has impeccable taste and a breadth of knowledge that is simply amazing, yet she also listens well and is in tune with what the client wants. Another important quality of Janine’s is that she has very good relationships with vendors. The tile and marble company that we worked with bent over backwards to please us as clients of Janine. We are very, very happy with the outcome.

Janine is ideal to work with. I came to her with a rush project. I had some ideas and samples but plenty of things for which I had no ideas and/or couldn’t quite imagine what I wanted. For the ideas I had she knew just where to take me and how to complete them. For those I could not quite articulate or areas for which I had no ideas, she knew how to create looks I loved. She will be honest with you if you want her to be! She will give her honest opinion if she thinks something doesn’t work but will not push if you choose your ‘own path’. Janine can work with any style. We selected several rooms of furniture and light fixtures to join some existing traditional pieces moving toward a contemporary feel. Janine is attentive to your budget. There were places I was willing to spend to find the perfect piece and other places where it wasn’t necessary. Janine is attentive through the whole process. The orders were placed efficiently as decisions were made and she followed up throughout the deliveries. She is a pleasure to work with!

Mrs Ducoin managed the complete fit out of my wonderful law offices in London as well as a glorious apartment which we created by converting a small set of offices on the top floor of a period building in London. She combined her exceptional creative talent with extraordinary technical skills. She also converted a large flat roof into a marvelous terrace with spectacular views over Westminster and the city of London, all on time and almost precisely on budget. She also returned in 2011 to completely redo the apartment, using deep colours and extraordinary fabrics to achieve a superb result . I could not possibly have been more pleased with her work and am happy to act as a reference for anyone wanting to retain her firm.

Janine Ducoin-Arnold helped my husband and I completely redecorate our home after we moved in, and she continues to assist us with updates as necessary. Janine is a talented and insightful interior decorator. She sees the potential in a space and comes up with creative ideas to transform rooms--inspiring us in the process. With Janine’s help, decisions that I would have agonized over were easily made. She doesn't tell clients what to do, or force her style and taste upon them, but tells them what works and helps them to design interiors that best match their lifestyles. Janine is willing to work with existing pieces, and within a budget. She makes herself available to answer questions in a timely manner, in person and also by phone and e-mail. Finally, Janine is a pleasure to work with. She is dependable, reliable and punctual. She clearly enjoys helping clients create beautiful homes.

Janine Ducoin Arnold helped me gut and recreate two bathrooms and helped me decorate two additional bathrooms. One of the things I liked most about Janine's approach was her ability to look at each bathroom separately and avoid the cookie-cutter approach. I also liked her listening--really listening--to my desire to economize in certain ways. The result: four very different, tasteful, and interesting bathrooms. Janine was with me every step of the way and really "got the job done." When you are living with young children, that made all the difference.

Janine provided comprehensive interior design services for several rooms in our home. She was an absolute pleasure to work with, and her taste is impeccable. She brought fantastic ideas to us that we would have never considered without her input - from fabric and furniture choices, to lighting fixtures and wall treatments. She has unlimited resources at her disposal to help bring her ideas to fruition while keeping the project on budget. Janine was able to incorporate all of our existing antiques and object d'art into her design, and her touch brought everything together is such a unique and beautiful way. We are thrilled with the final outcome.

I hired Janine Arnold several years ago when I did a kitchen renovation and expanded the back of the house to include a new small den and additional bedroom. Janine has an amazing sense of design, color and functionality. She is an excellent listener and incorporated my thoughts into a cohesive plan. Her attention to detail was reflected in everything from the furniture selection, the choice of fabrics, wall color, floor stain, and cabinet pulls. There are so many decisions involved in a project and she was there to confidently advise on all of them. She is a true problem solver and was even able to politely advise my contractor on a potential problem that had him stumped. Janine worked well within our agreed upon budget. Her pricing was fair and transparent. Looking back, I realize that her services were an incredible value as they prevented me from making costly mistakes on my own. I wouldn't tackle another home project without her.