Serving 3 communities in Connecticut
Interior Design Firm Serving Connecticut
Full-service, founder-led interior design for Connecticut's Gold Coast — colonials, shingle-style waterfront houses, and the modern houses of New Canaan.
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Est. 1996 · ASID & IIDA Members · WBENC Woman-Owned · 500+ Clients · 3M+ Sq Ft Designed
Connecticut has two great house traditions, the colonial and the modern. Neither forgives a badly drawn detail.
Interior Design in Connecticut
In Connecticut we work the Gold Coast: Greenwich, New Canaan and Westport, an hour of shoreline and back road that ranks among the wealthiest ground in America. Greenwich runs from the estates of the backcountry — Round Hill, Lake Avenue, walled acreage and long drives — down to Belle Haven, Riverside and Old Greenwich, where the houses meet Long Island Sound. New Canaan holds white clapboard colonials on Oenoke Ridge and, a few miles away in the trees, the glass and steel houses that made the town a modernist address after the war. Westport sits on the Saugatuck and the Sound at once, with center-hall colonials, converted barns, and waterfront houses near Compo Beach.
The housing stock is the real story. Eighteenth and nineteenth century colonials with low ceilings, deep sills and original floors. Shingle-style houses with wraparound porches and rooms that open one into the next. Georgian and Federal center-halls. Postwar modern with post-and-beam structure and glass walls that were never intended to be curtained. Each demands its own vocabulary — millwork profiles, ceiling treatment, stone, hardware, lighting. Design that flatters one will look borrowed on another, which is why we begin with the building rather than a style.
INSABELLADESIGN has designed interiors since 1996: full service, ASID and IIDA members, WBENC-certified and woman-owned, based in Little Silver, New Jersey, and working across New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Florida. More than three million square feet and over 500 clients, residential and commercial. Beth Insabella Walsh leads every project herself — the walkthrough, the plan, the millwork drawings, the install. Nearly thirty years of that continuity is what clients in this market are actually buying.
What We Design Across Connecticut
Residentially, the range runs from whole-house renovation to a single room done properly. Space planning first: circulation, room use, sightlines to the water where there is water, and where the light lands in winter. Then the built environment — custom kitchens for real cooking and entertaining, primary suites and baths in honed marble or limestone, paneled libraries and studies, mudrooms and butler's pantries, wine rooms, window seats, built-in storage, stair and ceiling detail, and a drawn lighting plan. Millwork is designed for the specific house, so a shingle-style waterfront and a 1950s modern do not receive the same profile, reveal or hardware. Furnishings, window treatments, rugs, textiles and art complete it, and we run the project through construction and installation. Waterfront properties bring flood elevation, salt air and material durability into the specification, and historic districts bring local review.
We do the same work commercially: offices and executive suites, family-office and financial space, medical and dental practices, hospitality and club interiors, showrooms, and multifamily lobbies and amenity floors. Those projects add code, ADA, landlord work letters and building standards, and they answer to a lease date. Connecticut's corporate corridor along I-95 and the Merritt keeps that side of the practice busy across the region. Whether the job is a house on the Sound or an office floor in Stamford, the method holds: plan the space, draw the millwork, specify the finishes, coordinate the trades, hold the schedule. We do not do home staging.
Communities We Serve in Connecticut
- Greenwich, CT — Fairfield County estate town
- New Canaan, CT — Fairfield County design town
- Westport, CT — Long Island Sound shore town
Why Connecticut Chooses INSABELLADESIGN
- Nearly 30 years of award-winning residential & commercial design (est. 1996)
- ASID & IIDA professional members · WBENC-certified, woman-owned firm
- Full service: detailed space planning and design documentation, custom kitchens & baths, millwork, furnishing, install
- Every project led personally by founder Beth Insabella Walsh
- Trusted by the architects, builders, and trades our clients rely on
- Sourced materials, custom fabrication, and finishes held to an exacting standard
Connecticut Interior Design — FAQs
Which parts of Connecticut do you serve?
Our Connecticut focus is Fairfield County's shoreline and back roads — Greenwich, New Canaan and Westport most of all, with the surrounding towns from Old Greenwich and Riverside through Darien, Rowayton and Southport within easy reach. We work in the rest of the state on request, particularly where a client already has a project running with us elsewhere. As a firm we work across New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Florida, and a fair number of clients keep homes in more than one of those states.
You're based in New Jersey. How does a Connecticut project actually run?
Travel has been part of the practice since 1996 and the process is built around it. Beth is on site for the first walkthrough, field measure, demolition review, millwork templating, stone selection at the slab yard, and install. Between site visits the project moves on drawings, shop-drawing review, finish samples and standing calls with your architect, builder and trades. We coordinate with Connecticut contractors, cabinetmakers, stone fabricators and electricians, and work alongside architects already engaged on the house. For clients with a Manhattan apartment or a Florida property as well, one firm across all of them keeps the houses related without making them identical.
How do you approach a waterfront house on Long Island Sound?
You design for the water and against it at the same time. For the water: plan the rooms and glazing so the view is earned from where people actually sit, keep the palette quiet enough that the Sound remains the brightest thing in the room, and use the light rather than fighting it. Against it: salt air and humidity are unkind, so we specify marine-grade and solid hardware, appropriate finishes on millwork, stone and tile that tolerate sand and wet feet, and durable performance textiles where they belong. Flood elevation and coastal regulation shape mechanical placement, floor construction and mudroom design, and we coordinate those decisions with the architect and builder before cabinetry is drawn.
Do you work on new construction as well as renovation?
Yes, and the earlier we join, the better the result. On new construction we work with the architect and builder during design development on space planning, ceiling and millwork detail, kitchen and bath layouts, the lighting and electrical plan, plumbing and hardware specification, and finish schedules — decisions that are cheap on paper and expensive after framing. On renovation the same list applies inside an existing structure, with historic review or coastal regulation added where the site calls for it. Either way, furnishings and art are specified in parallel so the house is finished when you move in, not a year later.