We hired Anna to provide color coordination for painting and flooring, and she also helped us to select hardware for a master bath renovation. Her taste and skills are top-notch, and we are very happy to have found her! read more

We worked with Anna on a kitchen remodel recently and are very grateful to have worked with her on our project! She has wonderful communication and she made the whole process incredibly smooth for us. We really didn't know where to start and she walked us through everything. She helps order all of the materials as well which was amazing. She has a ton of experience, worked with us within our budget, and gave us so many great ideas. Thank you Anna for everything! read more

Anna transformed our makeshift office and ad hoc storage space into a stylish, functional, and organized home office and adjacent guest bedroom. Her design and color senses are impeccable, and practical as well. Once the project was underway, Anna was responsive, efficient, and adaptable throughout - she really knows how to keep the team on track and moving forward. With good attention to detail and an intuitive understanding of our design vibe and how we wanted to use the rooms, Anna applied her 20+ years of experience to her proposal, and I was confident just diving in to implementation once I saw her vision for the space. We are delighted with the end result, and now spend a lot of time using our spiffy new office. You can get a good visual sense of her work if you visit her website, annajacobyinteriors.com. read more

We've worked with Anna on three projects so far spanning over 3 years - Design for living/dining/family rooms. This involved picking furniture, designing custom pieces like window seating, window treatments as well as selecting from retail outlets. - Master bath redesign and master bedroom redesign. Expanded the master bath, created new closet space etc. - Complete upgrade of flooring through out the house - Half bath to full bath conversion - this involved moving our half bath and converting it into a full bath + laundry area redesign. Our experience working with her has been outstanding. What we loved is she listens to what you want and comes up with creative solution that fits your budget. My wife and I have different tastes when it comes to interior decoration. She always presents multiple options within your budget, does not rush you to make a decision. She also applies practicality into her designs, thinks about where we can reuse/incorporate existing things eg furniture, vanity etc. She works with high quality contractors, cabinet makers and they provide fantastic service. We had an issue with one of our blinds almost a year or so after installation and she got it fixed for us without any extra charge. Overall we would absolutely not hesitate to go to her for our next project and highly recommend her. read more

When we moved to California 9 years ago all we could afford was a "fixer upper" home. Since then we've remodeled every room except our office/laundry room (maybe next year) Since I suffer from "option paralysis" when picking things like paint colors, flooring, tile, etc. Anna has been a savior! She listens to your ideas and narrows down the choices so it is easy to choose. If you don't like any of the options, she'll come up with more. She is also very quick to get back to you if you have any questions or concerns. 4 years ago, she transformed our very awkwardly laid out kitchen/ family room/ front hall and powder room into beautiful, functional spaces with lots of additional storage. 2 years ago she has provided designs for our living room/ dining room space helping with color and furniture choices using as much of our own things as possible to save cost. Our latest project this past summer was a total remodel of our master bath and 2 closets as well as design help in picking furniture and paint colors for the master bedroom. I never thought we could fit a king size bed in our tiny bedroom but she made it work. She also made sure the contractor followed all safety precautions for Covid to minimize risk. We've worked with 2 different contractors she recommended (the first one retired) and they were both outstanding! We have just been delighted with all her work! read more

Anna Jacoby made my dream kitchen come true!!!! We had a decent kitchen/dining area but as a Pampered chef/home cook, the space was not workable. Anna came in gave her best opinion and it came out perfect. It wasn't what we had initially planned, hers exceeded our expectations. The only thing we changed was the size of our island, we needed it bigger. If you are in need of a designer, she's the one. We had to wait almost 4 months before the plan was in motion, but it's well worth the wait. You wont be disappointed. read more

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This review is long overdue. It has been a year. We had great experience working with Anna. After doing a major remodel of the house, there wasn't much budget left for decoration. So we used Anna's half day service. She visited house for consultation. I showed her all existing furniture and furnishings/decorations we had. And we discussed, what we wanted out of the decoration. Since walls had been newly painted, it was a clean start about wall hangings. On the organizing day, she and her partner showed up on time and she told us, we would have a nice house to return to. We liked the result. They left the house clean. She even arranged my cookbooks in the cabinet. Her rate was reasonable. I think it was $625 for half day. I would highly recommend Anna. read more

We used Anna's "redesign" service after a move from a larger home and an apartment to just one home. After we unpacked, she took our furnishings and accessories and created an attractive home in just one day! To completely understand her "magic," one needs to know that it was somewhat of a challenge as mentioned earlier. My husband and I have a lot of "stuff" accumulated from the two different households and numerous travels. We have different tastes in furnishings and we have very eclectic memorabilia (paintings, books, ceramics, musical instruments, etc.) collected from treasured travels from different places around the world. Not only did Anna make it work, but it looked as if everything had been especially designed for the new home. I highly recommend others who are moving to take advantage of her distinctive and affordable "move-in redesign service." In one day, my accessories and furnishings took on a new meaning. I can't wait for family and friends to see. I am almost embarrassed to admit it but I secretly wanted to go to the neighbors (whom I do not even know yet) and ask them to look at how well everything turned out! Very satisfied customer! read more

Amazing Master Suite Remodel from Anna Jacoby Interiors! Anna was phenomenally easy to work with, her presentations and attention to detail is superb but it is her joyful spirit, wonderful ideas and her ability to translate what you truly want into a project that ends up being more than you could have imagined that makes every moment of your project, WONDERFUL. I cannot say enough good things about working with Anna Jacoby Interiors. She works easily with your contractor, finds great products and will help you choose something else if a choice isn't everything you imagined, whether it was her pick or yours AND she still keeps the project on schedule, even with your changes - we had some additions LOL. We are so happy. Our bedroom, bath and closet have very little square footage, but we wanted to increase all the functionality without increasing overall area, make it a luxurious midcentury modern retreat that was stunningly beautiful and make it feel bigger. She did all of that. What we have now is far more functional and beautiful than we could have imagined. Thank you, Anna! If we are blessed we will get to work with you again. Pics are included! read more

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Moving with two young children and getting a house ready for move in are not easy tasks and when combined together, has the capability of driving you to brink of sanity, so I decided that I would try to save some time and use an interior designer's services. I liked Anna because she is able to work with flexibility (by the hour or chunks of time) and give us a design direction. Her design help was tremendously efficient and she was able to help us work with what we already have, come up with a color palette for the interior, and ideas for layouts. I appreciated her suggestions and advice immensely and felt that it was completely worth the money I spent. It saved me a lot of time and headache, plus it was nice to have a professional give me a sense of direction as I liked having a plan laid out. Anna was also excellent at communicating with me using Houzz, printouts, and drawings. She was able to really give me a good sense of direction for how to put the new house together. With her help many decisions were made quickly and with confidence. Why did I take one star off? Well, I did find her design services so wonderful I decided to also take her up on doing some project management for the interior improvements we needed at the house -- namely painting, new flooring on the bottom floor, a custom cabinet, and stairs and railings. Our expectations were not well aligned on the project management portion of her services with me. I was in a hurry -- we have a month between hiring her and move-in date, I am dealing with two kids 3 and under, trying to vet our preschools and doctors while trying to get our current house ready for sale, and eager to hand off some of the dealing with contractors at the new house. My expectation was that she would have tapped into her roster of contractors as opposed to just contacted one for each item. The world of home contractors is an exercise in consumer intelligence, and I am used to doing it more methodically, (I like to follow FTC and BBB's guidelines for dealing with home contractors). Having previously gotten quotes from contrators myself as a homeowner, I expected to have details in the quotes like labor, materials, hours, etc. Considering a contractor can put a lien on your house, I was not comfortable at all with the nonprofessional and quickie quotes that got passed along. I was completely taken aback by the casualness of the quotes I would receive via Anna. She only met with one contractor to get a bid for each project and they would text her a number or email her a quick quote. The sparse content was also unhelpful in helping us make decisions. Anna's close and familiar relationship with the contractors worked against me in this case. When I let her know how I felt, she mentioned she was working as fast as possible while being busy juggling multiple projects, but it was still not acceptable to us to have such sketchy quotes on top of higher than expected price quotes from contractors. She did then go back to her contractors to get more detailed quote and one did come back with the details that we wanted. I felt that the contractors she used did not offer competitive prices because the request came from her, the designer. I ended up contacting more vendors using Yelp and Angieslist and it turns out her vendors charged $550 (for painting) to $1700 more (for carpeting) than the next highest bid, and much higher than the lowest. Does saving over $2500 on carpeting and painting matter to us? It sure did! Also, Anna did not inform us that if she stopped being "project manager," that custom cabinet work that was already approved to be done would be dropped without notice. Luckily, I had called the cabinet guy to confirm the schedule and it was during that call that I found out that the guy will not work since "Anna is his girl" and that his "license is under Anna." I really wished that Anna would have told me about this, as I found this to be very unprofessional. Anna said that the guy did this on his own, but this is something that I was unaware of might happen with her contractors. I would take a 1/2 star off for this, but I will take Anna's word that she had no knowledge or control over this. So in summary, I would use Anna for design consultation and design consultation only. If you want competitive bids, do your own vendor vetting, and do not use her for project management if you are under a tight deadline and a strict budget. read more

Anna did an amazing job with our complete "window treatment makeover" - helping us select and install Hunter Douglas blinds in every room of our [5 bedroom, 3 bath, 3-story] house. She gave us lots of advice about what worked for each room, took care of the measurements, ordering, installation -- everything! And after they were installed, she came back to double-check their work and make sure we were happy. We were! read more

We used Anna's designing service to design the interiors of our new house. I am thrilled with the end result. Anna is very detail oriented and easy to work with. She listened to our requirements, worked with our budget and picked up unique pieces that work with our existing furniture. Anna's is very passionate about her work and it reflects in her designs. I would highly recommend her. read more

For home owners-- and commercial owners--always go to the California State Contractors License Board: http://www.cslb.ca.gov/ to start checking basics on contractors and contracting. Sad to say, from Irene below, that homeowners particularly get in a hurry, do not check all their sources carefully. While the cabinet guy noted his "license is under Anna", Anna appears to be unlicensed by the Contractors State License Board. Perhaps that's not what the cabinet guy meant by "license" but rather that Anna had control and say in the design as "license". I believe that's what he probably meant. Note that anyone performing construction work or charging for construction work without the appropriate license(s) is operating illegally. Construction is always buyer beware. Sad to say (again) things like this happen all the time. People want to save time and money not realizing nor believing there are regulations to protect consumers. Those regulations cannot protect consumers from themselves, however. Do your research, and then talk to professionals you trust, understanding how they work. read more

Anna get's 5 stars for her role in color coordinating my house. I just got a house in Livermore and wanted to paint it and had NO IDEA what colors. I had some ideas in my head but I was not sure if they would all flow together or not. Anna came out and I went over everything with her as far as my ideas. She was up front in telling me if it would work or not. She had comments and asked me lots of questions to get an idea what I wanted. She had great input and painting tips. We spent one hour and went over each room. Her cost if very fair too. I had several quotes for "color coordinators" ranging from $2,000 on down. I was not about to spend 2K for someone to come in and tell me what color to paint a wall. Anna charged a fair price and did exactly what I needed and it turned out perfect. Thank you Anna! read more

We hired Anna to design and furnish our formal area which had been empty for years after our home remodel. Anna has great experience doing lots of homes in the Mission area which made us very comfortable in going with her. Our formal area was little irregular and we wanted a contemporary, clean look but yet a look that was warm and inviting for entertaining. Anna understood perfectly what we wanted and picked some delightful furniture pieces, carpet, lights, wall art and plaques for us. Her design concept was clean and easy to visualize. She co-ordinated delivery of all pieces, choice of fabric, light fixture installations down to the very last step. She worked end to end on our project and the result was delightful. Anna is very creative and easy to work with. Twice it so happened that the fabric she had picked was out of our range or unavailable. She quickly came back with options which we loved and approved right away. We are really happy with the final result. We probably would never have picked all the pieces she had an eye for. Anna is honest, diligent and very patient. She kept us in the loop at every step, inspected items and promptly returned an item which arrived with dents. Must add that she is also very price sensitive and will never push you to buy items which are super expensive or charge you unnecessarily. Anna Jacoby is a gem. If you hire her for your project, you will not be disappointed. read more

Anna is the owner who will contact you once you submit a request through Yelp. She is very professional and prompt in her email communication. We asked for her service in replacing our LeVolor Window Shade which fell apart after 4 years of use. She recommended Hunter Douglas for the quality, and her prices are very reasonable than any others who gave us the estimate. She gave a 10 year warranty. No up sell and no surprises. The installation is very professional, and clean. She also does interior design. I strongly recommend her for expertise and her honest very reasonable pricing. She owns the business herself and truly admire her work. read more

Anna did a redesign of our living room and family room. It turned out to be much more than we expected. She arranged our furniture and accessories in such a way that we felt like we were in an entirely different house. It's hard to believe that it's the same place. I was almost at the point of buying all new furniture, I was so tired of what I had but honestly I don't need to now. She moved things around and repositioned them and voila, a completely pulled together place. My neighbnor came by and was totally blown away. If you are tired of what you have and want a totally new look without spending a lot of money, I highly recommend Anna Jacoby Interiors. read more

Anna Jacoby was willing to work by the hour giving me advise about how to work with what I already had. I took notes on her numerous suggestions as we walked from room to room. Her constructive criticism included all sorts of wonderful ideas that I could handle on my own. For example, she pointed out that the mirror above my tall mantlepiece in the living room was reflecting only the ceiling. She suggested that I switch it to the entry hall and use a painting over the fireplace. She thought a yellow wall would cheer up my sterile all white kitchen. And it did! Many of her suggestions I have followed through with and others are still on my to-do list. Anna is easy to work with and she suggests, but does not impose her ideas. read more

Anna did an outstanding job remodeling our master bathroom. The job entailed removing and replacing the existing shower, and the vanity and medicine cabinets. She took our requirements and designed a great bathroom. Her suggestions were perfect for our needs. The result is that we have a great-looking bathroom that is also very comfortable to use. Anna ordered the materials, and coordinated and supervised the work paying attention to the smallest details. The result is that the job was painless. We are extremely happy with the work and recommend Anna enthusiastically. read more

Anna did a fabulaous job helping us select, order and install Hunter Douglas Silhouettes, a Luminette and shutters for new windows throughout the entire house. She was very flexible for scheduling appointments and worked around our contractor. Her price beat the competitors who also quoted our job, and the product was installed very quickly (just a few weeks after ordering). Her installer was equally fabulous, with 40 years in the installation business. The finished product is beautiful and I would highly recommend Anna's services! read more

Anna did a fabulous job of decorating my new house. We had planned a party on Saturday and hired Anna just few days ahead of the party. She and her assistant came to my house on Wednesday for the measurement and stuff went shopping on the same day and the following day and by Friday they worked in my house all day long and made my house look like a designer house. All my rooms look amazingly good. My guests wouldn't stop appreciating the decor and the wall art in my house. She not only did justice to my new house by decorating it with the stuff she bought but also did justice to the decorating stuff i already had by placing them appropriately. I would strongly recommend her to everyone. Thanks Anna for making my house look so beautiful. read more