Serving 2 communities in Union County
Interior Design Firm in Union County, New Jersey
Full-service, founder-led interior design for Summit and Westfield — century-old Victorians and center-hall colonials, replanned properly and finished to last.
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Est. 1996 · ASID & IIDA Members · WBENC Woman-Owned · 500+ Clients · 3M+ Sq Ft Designed
Summit and Westfield reward restraint. The best houses here look like nothing was done to them, and everything was.
Interior Design in Union County
Summit and Westfield are the two Union County addresses people move for, and they have more in common than the map suggests. Both are built around a walkable downtown and a direct train to Manhattan. Both are dominated by housing that is roughly a century old — Summit's shingle-style, Tudor and colonial revival houses on the streets off Springfield Avenue and up toward Hobart and Beekman; Westfield's Victorians, Dutch colonials and center-hall colonials through Wychwood, Stanley and the Gardens. Deep lots, mature trees, slate and cedar roofs, and interiors laid out for a way of running a household that ended eighty years ago.
That last part is the design problem, and it is the one we have been solving since 1996. INSABELLADESIGN is a full-service interior design firm — space planning, custom kitchens and baths, millwork, lighting, furnishings, art and project management — led personally by Beth Insabella Walsh. We are ASID and IIDA members and a WBENC-certified woman-owned business, with roughly three million square feet designed and more than 500 clients across New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Florida. Much of our work arrives by referral, which is generally how a firm earns its way into towns like these.
What Summit and Westfield owners want is almost always the same brief phrased two ways: keep the house, fix the plan. The original kitchen is small and pushed to the back with a butler's pantry and a back stair beside it. There is one good bathroom serving four bedrooms. The third floor is unfinished, or finished badly in 1988. The living room has a fireplace worth building around and nothing built around it. Solving that takes millwork drawn to 1915 profiles, cabinetry that reads as furniture, stone and tile chosen for the period, and lighting that does its job without announcing itself.
What We Design Across Union County
The residential work here runs from whole-house renovation down to a single room done properly. Kitchens are the usual anchor, and in a hundred-year-old house that means designing within a real floor plan — relocating a back stair, absorbing a butler's pantry, working out where a range wall can go without wrecking the circulation, then building it in custom cabinetry with honed or polished stone, unlacquered brass or nickel, and layered lighting. Beyond the kitchen: primary suites and baths carved out of rooms that never had them, third-floor and lower-level finishing, paneled studies and libraries, mudrooms, dining rooms, and complete furnishings, window treatments and art selection. New millwork always gets profiled against the original, because in a Summit shingle-style or a Westfield Victorian that is the difference between a renovation and a repair.
We also design commercial interiors, which is relevant in two boroughs with this much professional activity — the office and professional space along Springfield Avenue and around the Summit medical corridor, downtown Westfield offices and retail, and the multi-tenant buildings serving both. That work includes space planning and test fits, private offices and open floors, conference rooms, reception and lobbies, medical and dental practices, and the finish, lighting and furniture packages that go with them. Same principal, same process, same standard of detail.
Communities We Serve in Union County
- Summit, NJ — Full-service residential interior design for Summit's gracious colonials and its walkable, sophisticated core.
- Westfield, NJ — Full-service interior design for Westfield's grand Victorians and colonials and its vibrant downtown businesses.
Why Union 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
Union County Interior Design — FAQs
Do you specialize in high-end residential design in Summit and Westfield?
Yes. Full-service, high-end residential is the core of what we do, and the century-old housing stock in both towns is exactly the kind of work a full-service firm is built for. Beth Insabella Walsh leads every project personally, from space planning and custom millwork through furnishings, art and final installation.
Can you design a modern kitchen inside a 1910 floor plan?
That is one of the most common problems in these towns and it is a planning question before it is a style question. It usually involves absorbing a butler's pantry or rethinking a back stair to get a working triangle and real counter run, then building it in custom cabinetry detailed to match the house. Done well, the kitchen feels like it was always meant to be there.
What does full service actually include?
Everything from the plan to the last lamp. Space planning, custom kitchen and bath design, millwork drawings, lighting and plumbing specification, finish schedules, furniture and fabric selection, window treatments, art, procurement, and project management through installation. You are not assembling five vendors and refereeing them — that coordination is our job.
Do you take on single rooms, or only whole-house projects?
Both. Some Union County projects are a full renovation floor by floor; others start as one kitchen, one primary suite, or one living room that has never worked. We will tell you honestly which scope actually solves your problem, because a beautifully finished room inside a broken floor plan is money spent twice.