Serving Westport, Connecticut
Interior Design Firm in Westport, CT
For Westport's shoreline colonials and Long Island Sound waterfront homes, INSABELLADESIGN designs interiors as polished and unfussy as the town itself.
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Est. 1996 · ASID & IIDA Members · WBENC Woman-Owned · 500+ Projects · 3M+ Sq Ft Designed
Interior Design in Westport, Connecticut
Westport has a distinct kind of affluence: coastal, creative, and quietly self-assured. This is a shore town of advertising executives, media founders, and finance families who could live anywhere on the Gold Coast and chose the one with the beach, the arts center, and the walkable downtown along the Saugatuck River. The homes range from antique colonials on Old Hill to substantial contemporaries on the water at Compo Beach and Saugatuck Shores, and the taste tends toward relaxed sophistication rather than formality.
INSABELLADESIGN has designed interiors across Fairfield County since 1996, and Westport is a town that rewards a light, confident hand: interiors that feel effortless but are anything but. We understand coastal living: the transition from mudroom to beach, the open plans built for entertaining, the materials that live gracefully with salt air and sun.
Neighborhoods we serve: Compo Beach · Old Hill · Greens Farms · Saugatuck Shores · Coleytown
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Deep River Residence
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Hunter, NY
Hunter Residence
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Bay Head Residence
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Luxury Residential Interior Design in Westport
On the water, we design coastal interiors with real refinement: light-filled open plans, natural materials, and rooms that pull the Sound inside without ever tipping into nautical kitsch. Chef-caliber kitchens sized for summer entertaining, spa primary baths with freestanding tubs, screened porches and sunrooms that extend the living space, and the built-ins that keep an open, casual home from feeling underfurnished.
In the antique colonials and center-hall homes of Old Hill and Greens Farms, we work with the history: restoring detail, warming the plan, and adding modern kitchens and baths and the millwork that lets a period house function for a contemporary family. The result reads as collected and personal, layered over time rather than delivered in a truck.
- Coastal & waterfront interiors
- Antique colonial renovation
- Chef-caliber kitchens
- Spa primary baths
- Sunrooms & porches
- Custom millwork & built-ins
- Layered furnishings
- Art curation
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Commercial Interior Design in Westport
Westport's downtown along Main Street and the Post Road is upscale and design-aware, and we design for its better addresses: boutique retail and galleries, creative and media agency offices, private financial and advisory practices, and restaurants and cafes with a genuine point of view. Custom millwork, considered lighting, and finishes that suit a town where clientele have real taste.
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WPOF Law Firm
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Corporate
Designer Greetings
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The INSABELLADESIGN Difference
Westport clients tend to be creative, decisive, and collaborative: they want a designer who has a point of view and the taste to make theirs sharper. INSABELLADESIGN runs every project through founder Beth Insabella Walsh personally, so that collaboration happens with the principal, not a junior handoff, from the waterfront renovation to the downtown retail fit-out.
Our work grows by referral among a close community that talks. Since 1996 we have earned trust in Fairfield County the way it is earned in a shore town: quietly, project by project, by delivering something that feels unmistakably right.
Selected Work
Projects from our portfolio closest to Westport in both location and character.
Deep River Residence
Deep River, CT. A Connecticut residence combining traditional New England character with modern comfort.
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Hunter Residence
Hunter, NY. A mountain home designed around its views, making the landscape the centerpiece of every room.
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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
Westport Interior Design FAQs
Do you design waterfront homes in Westport?
Yes, it's a significant part of what we do here. Compo Beach and Saugatuck Shores projects get planned around the view first, sightlines that carry from the entry to the water, durable materials that handle wet feet and bright sun, and furnishings chosen so the house reads refined rather than themed.
Can you renovate an antique colonial?
Absolutely, it's some of our favorite work in town. Rather than importing a design onto an old house, we work with what's there, wood tone, trim depth, window proportions, and thread the new mechanicals and baths through it so nothing about the update feels grafted on.
You're based in New Jersey. Do you work in Westport?
Regularly. We serve Westport and greater Fairfield County, and many clients split time between Westport and a city apartment and want one eye across both.
Do you work collaboratively with hands-on clients?
Yes, and it tends to produce the best results. Many clients here already have strong instincts about materials and layout, and our job is refining those instincts, testing them against what will actually hold up to humidity, guests, and daily life, not talking them out of what they want.
Do you handle commercial projects in Westport?
Yes. Downtown shops, gallery spaces, and small professional offices are part of the work, and we hold them to an interior finish level that matches a town where people notice design, real materials, considered lighting, nothing that reads temporary.
What does a full-service project include?
Space planning, custom kitchens and baths, millwork, lighting, furnishings, art curation, and full project management, from first concept to installation, with Beth Insabella Walsh personally involved.
Start a Project in Westport
Waterfront or antique colonial, INSABELLADESIGN designs Westport interiors with the relaxed, confident polish the town is known for.
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Serving Westport, Fairfield County, and communities throughout Connecticut