Serving Pelham, New York

Interior Design Firm in Pelham, NY

Full-service, founder-led interior design for the Tudors, stone houses and center-hall colonials of Pelham, Pelham Manor, Pelhamwood and Pelham Heights.

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Est. 1996 · ASID & IIDA Members · WBENC Woman-Owned · 500+ Projects · 3M+ Sq Ft Designed

Interior Design in Pelham, New York

Pelham is small, old and well built. Thomas Pell bought the land from the Siwanoy in 1654; the town was chartered in 1788, and the village of Pelham Manor incorporated separately in 1891. The two villages sit on tree-lined streets just north of the city line, with stucco-and-timber Tudors, slate roofs and leaded casements, stone-fronted colonials, Dutch colonials with deep gambrels, and center-hall colonials, most of it built from the 1900s through the 1930s. Pelhamwood and Pelham Heights were laid out as planned residential enclaves, and Chester Park, in the Manor, was built to the same standard.

Wolfs Lane and Fifth Avenue form a village center you can actually walk to, the Pelham Art Center anchors a real local arts life, the Pelham Country Club sits at the southern edge, and the train reaches Grand Central in roughly half an hour. That commute has shaped who lives here for over a century: commuter families, many in law, finance and medicine, in houses built for a domestic staff that hasn't existed in decades and wired for none of what a household runs on now.

Neighborhoods we serve: Pelham Manor · Pelham Heights · Pelhamwood · Chester Park · Wolfs Lane village center · Highbrook Avenue

Hunter, NY

Hunter Residence

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Deep River, CT

Deep River Residence

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Princeton, NJ

Princeton Residence

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Luxury Residential Interior Design in Pelham

The recurring Pelham problem is a beautiful house with a plan written for 1926. Small kitchen at the back with a butler's pantry and a maid's stair. A formal dining room that only gets used on holidays. A dark center hall. Four bedrooms and one and a half baths on the second floor. Space planning is where we solve it: consolidating the rear of the plan into a kitchen and family room that gets the good light, converting underused formal space into rooms the family actually occupies, and building a proper primary suite with a real bath and dressing room out of the bedrooms and closets that are already there.

Then the interior architecture, which is what makes these houses worth owning. We draw custom millwork to the existing profiles rather than near them: paneled wainscot, deep window casings, coffered and beamed ceilings, arched openings kept as arched openings, built-in casework fitted to the bays and stair landings. Custom cabinetry, honed marble and soapstone, quartersawn oak, plaster finishes, period-appropriate tile, unlacquered brass. Tudors take a specific hand with light and color, so lighting is designed room by room and layered, and the leaded glass, stone and timber are treated as assets rather than obstacles.

• Whole-home renovation
• Tudor & stone house interiors
• Historic detail restoration
• Custom kitchens
• Spa primary baths
• Custom millwork & cabinetry
• Lighting design
• Furnishings & art

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Commercial Interior Design in Pelham

Pelham's commercial spaces are small, visible and close to home, which raises the standard rather than lowering it. Along Wolfs Lane and Fifth Avenue you find independent restaurants and retail, boutique law, accounting and financial offices, private medical, dental and specialty practices, and studios and arts spaces serving the two villages. We design these the way we design the houses: plan first, then custom millwork, lighting and finishes selected to take daily traffic and still look right years in.

Professional

WPOF Law Firm

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Corporate

Designer Greetings

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The INSABELLADESIGN Difference

Beth Insabella Walsh leads every project. She founded the firm in 1996 and still reviews the drawings, the millwork profiles, the finish schedule, the fabrics and the lighting layouts herself, and she is on site through installation. One point of view from the first sketch to the last light fixture is what keeps a whole house's worth of small decisions from drifting in different directions.

Behind her is a trade bench built over three decades: millworkers, cabinetmakers, plaster and paint artisans, stone fabricators, upholsterers and installers who know exactly what we will sign off on. In a village of 1920s Tudors and stone colonials, the finish work is what you see every day, long after the floor plan stops mattering to anyone but us. We are ASID and IIDA professional members and a WBENC-certified woman-owned business, and we carry a project from the first walkthrough to the last piece of art on the wall.

Selected Work

Projects from our portfolio closest to Pelham in both location and character.

Hunter Residence

Hunter, NY. A mountain home designed around its views, making the landscape the centerpiece of every room.

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Deep River Residence

Deep River, CT. A Connecticut residence combining traditional New England character with modern comfort.

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WPOF Law Firm

Professional. A legal environment designed to communicate stability, competence, and attention to detail.

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I've had the privilege of working with Beth Insabella on several homes throughout the past 25+ years. Beth has impeccable taste and with her talented team, each project was a testament to her firm's creativity, expertise, attention to detail and professionalism. Whether starting with a blank slate or repurposing existing furnishings with new fabrics and colors, INSABELLADESIGN delivers stunningly beautiful, yet highly functional spaces, specifically tailored to the client's needs. I look forward to our next collaboration!

30+ Years of Experience

500+ Projects Completed

3M+ Sq Ft Designed

98% Client Satisfaction

How a Project Works

1. Start with a conversation

A consultation at our Little Silver studio or your property. We talk through the space, the scope, how you live or work in it, and what you want the finished project to accomplish. No obligation, and you will always be speaking with Beth.

2. Design and decisions

Space planning, materials, millwork and cabinetry design, lighting, and furnishings developed into one coherent plan, with drawings and documentation your contractor and trades can actually build from.

3. We carry it to the finish

We coordinate the trades, manage orders and timelines, and stay on the project through installation and styling, so you get a completed space rather than a plan left for you to assemble.

About 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

Nearby Areas We Serve

Part of our Westchester County interior design service area.

• Bronxville, NY
• Scarsdale, NY
• Manhattan, NY
• Brooklyn, NY

Pelham Interior Design FAQs

Are you interior designers or interior decorators?

We are a full-service design firm. That means space planning and design documentation, custom kitchens and baths, millwork, lighting, furnishing and installation. Decoration is part of the work, not the whole of it.

What does full service include?

Drawings, custom millwork and casework, lighting design, finishes, furnishings, procurement, trade coordination and installation. We coordinate the trades and manage the schedule.

Have you worked in this area?

The studio is in Little Silver and we work across New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Florida, Pelham included.

Do you design commercial spaces as well as homes?

Yes. Alongside residential work we design medical, corporate, government, retail and multifamily interiors.

Do you take single rooms, or only whole homes?

Both. Scope runs from a single room to a full renovation or new build.

How do your fees work?

It depends on scope, from a single room to a full renovation or new build. After an initial consultation we provide a detailed proposal.

Who leads the project?

Beth Insabella Walsh, the firm’s founder, leads every project.

Start a Project in Pelham

If you own a house in Pelham or Pelham Manor with good bones and a plan that stopped working, we would like to see it. Bring us the Tudor with the dark hall and the impossible kitchen, the stone colonial that needs a real primary suite, or a commercial space on Wolfs Lane. We will walk it with you, say honestly what it needs, and give you a clear scope and proposal before you commit to anything. Call 732-933-4344 or email info@insabelladesign.com to schedule a consultation with Beth and our senior team.

(732) 933-4344 info@insabelladesign.com

Serving Pelham, Westchester County, and communities throughout New York