Serving 26 communities in Monmouth County
Interior Design Firm in Monmouth County, New Jersey
Full-service interior design from a studio on White Road in Little Silver, serving the river towns, the shore boroughs and the inland townships of Monmouth County.
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Est. 1996 · ASID & IIDA Members · WBENC Woman-Owned · 500+ Clients · 3M+ Sq Ft Designed
Our studio is in Little Silver. Most of this county is a twenty-minute drive.
Interior Design in Monmouth County
Monmouth County is really three counties wearing one name. There is the Two River area, where Rumson, Fair Haven and Little Silver sit on the peninsula between the Navesink and the Shrewsbury, with shingle-style estates, brick Georgians and river houses built to catch the afternoon light off the water. There is the shore itself, from Long Branch and Asbury Park through Spring Lake and Sea Girt, where the housing runs from Victorian cottages with deep porches to oceanfront condominiums to Shore Colonials rebuilt above flood elevation. And there is the inland county, Freehold and the horse-country roads around Colts Neck, where lots get larger, the barns are real, and the houses are newer and considerably bigger.
INSABELLADESIGN is based here. The studio is at 160 White Road in Little Silver, and the firm has been designing interiors since 1996, nearly thirty years, across New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Florida. Over that span the practice has designed more than 3 million square feet for 500-plus clients. We are ASID and IIDA members and a WBENC-certified woman-owned firm, and founder and principal Beth Insabella Walsh leads every project personally.
Owners in this county tend to want the same short list. Open the first floor without losing the proportion of an older house. Build a kitchen that can feed eight on a Tuesday and forty on the Fourth of July. Make a primary bath feel like the reason you came home. Get the sightlines to the water right. And handle salt air honestly, which means specifying hardware, finishes and fabrics that survive a mile from the ocean instead of chalking in two seasons. That is the work we offer here, start to finish.
What We Design Across Monmouth County
Residentially, we take on whole-home renovations, gut interiors, additions and ground-up construction throughout the county. Space planning comes first, then interior architecture: custom kitchens with proper working zones, spa primary baths in honed marble or limestone, custom cabinetry and millwork, paneled studies, wine rooms, mudrooms sized for a family that actually goes to the beach. Lighting is laid out room by room. Furnishings, rugs, textiles and art are chosen against the same plan and installed together. For the older shore and river houses we respect what's worth keeping, original stair details, transoms, generous window openings, and rebuild the rest to a modern standard. For new construction we come in at schematic design with the architect and builder, while ceiling heights and window placement are still on paper.
On the commercial side we design the kinds of spaces Monmouth County works in. Law and financial offices around Red Bank and Freehold, private medical, dental and aesthetic practices, hospitality and club interiors along the shore, showrooms and boutique retail. Every engagement gets the full-service treatment: space planning, custom millwork and casework, lighting design, durable finishes, furniture specification and project management through opening. What we don't do is home staging, in Monmouth County or anywhere else.
Communities We Serve in Monmouth County
- Allenhurst, NJ — Old-money estate design near Deal
- Allentown, NJ — Design for a historic borough and its countryside
- Asbury Park, NJ — Coastal-modern design for a city that knows style
- Atlantic Highlands, NJ — hillside harbor town with skyline views
- Brielle, NJ — Riverfront and yachting-town design on the Manasquan
- East Freehold, NJ — Full-home design for East Freehold's colonials
- Eatontown, NJ — Home and commercial design for central Monmouth
- Fair Haven, NJ — affluent riverside town near the Navesink
- Freehold, NJ — Design for historic homes and country estates
- Holmdel, NJ — estate and equestrian community in Monmouth County
- Interlaken, NJ — Lakeside luxury near Deal Lake
- Lincroft, NJ — established custom-home community in Monmouth
- Little Silver, NJ — our home base in Monmouth County
- Locust, NJ — affluent wooded riverside area near the Navesink
- Long Branch, NJ — Oceanfront and revitalized luxury living
- Manasquan, NJ — Upscale coastal design between the inlet and the beach
- Monmouth Beach, NJ — affluent shore borough between ocean and river
- Navesink, NJ — wealthy riverside enclave above the Navesink
- Ocean Township, NJ — Full-home design for established Monmouth living
- Red Bank, NJ — vibrant upscale river town on the Navesink
- Robertsville, NJ — Full-home design for Marlboro-area custom homes
- Rumson, NJ — riverfront estate borough on the Navesink
- Sea Bright, NJ — narrow oceanfront beach town on the water
- Sea Girt, NJ — Family-scaled coastal luxury by the lighthouse
- Spring Lake, NJ — Grand Victorian and beachfront design on the Irish Riviera
- Tinton Falls, NJ — Interiors for new builds and luxury communities
Why Monmouth County 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
Monmouth County Interior Design — FAQs
Where is your studio, and can we meet in person?
Our studio is at 160 White Road in Little Silver, which puts most of Monmouth County within a short drive. In-person meetings, site walks and installation supervision are a normal part of how we run a project. Being based in the county is a practical advantage on renovation work, where showing up matters more than anything on a mood board.
Do you design homes on the water and in flood-elevated shore rebuilds?
Yes. Waterfront and near-ocean projects are their own discipline: sightlines have to be planned around the view, entries and stair runs change when a house sits on piers or a raised foundation, and materials have to hold up to salt air and humidity. We specify hardware, finishes, plaster and fabrics accordingly, and we plan the interior architecture around how a shore house is actually used in July versus February.
Do you take commercial projects in Monmouth County?
We do. Offices, private medical and dental practices, hospitality, clubs, showrooms and retail all fall inside our full-service commercial practice. The process mirrors the residential side, with space planning, millwork, lighting and furnishings handled in house, and it accounts for code, durability and the way a space photographs once it opens.
Do you stage homes for sale in Monmouth County?
No. We are a full-service interior design firm, so our work is permanent: space planning, custom kitchens and baths, millwork, lighting, furnishings, art and project management. Staging is a different business with a different goal. If you're renovating to live in the house rather than to list it, that's exactly our lane.