Maureen just staged my condo in Cambridge which I was able to sell quickly at a great price. I was…read moreskeptical about retaining a stager because my place is fairly small and I wasn't sure it was worth the cost. The issue with staging is that you have to have faith. You will never know how much of an impact it had, if any. I think Maureen did a great job though! She told me what items to put into storage to make my place look bigger and she reorganized my things in a way that made the condo more inviting. She also brought in some of her own things to complete the picture. I would highly recommend DaVinci if you are going to use a stager. My realtors use her themselves when they sell their own homes too. She is definitely an expert at what she does! The only reason I am giving 4 instead of 5 stars is because of the cost. My condo is only 700 square feet and the cost was $2,500. Maureen came for an initial consult and then spent one full day staging. Again, I have no way of knowing how much added benefit the staging had with the sale price and while I'd like to think it increased the sale by at least $2,500 I just don't know. In any case, I would still highly recommend DaVinci, especially if you have a larger home or you are selling in a less desirable area as I think the added benefit will be more noticeable.

I have a lovely 1925 front entrance brick colonial in Newton center - it has wonderful "bones" and…read morearchitectual details but was greatly in need of an update. First project: After a few failed attempts to work with decorators, I received a very strong referance from a dear friend that Davinci Designer Gallery - Maureen Reddy - was the way to go.... She was right! My first work with Maureen was to help with the selection of colors for all of the first floor rooms. We have a home that is full of art that we have collected from around the world. We also have an eclectic collection of antiques and other objects. Maureen took everything in, in additon to our unique sensibilities and in a very short time recommended colors for each room. To this day we still receive compliments on the lovely colors and how beautifully they work with our art. Second Project: Now we are really ready for big changes and called Maureen Reddy once again. She helped me think through and design everything - from the choices of new furnature - to the selection of fabrics for three antique wing chairs an antique couch and much more. She has an amazing eye for detail and design -- I still am amazed at how well she is able to understnad what we like and at the same time help us move in new directions - from rugs to lampts to other objects from her personal collection - the result was breathtaking! She (Maureen) is professional, honest and fair in her pricing and an amazing artist. She's also a lot of fun to work with! We recommend Davinci and Maureen 1000% and can't want for the next project - the re-do of the entire upstairs of our home.

I recently hired Jessica Klein of Oh, I Design Studio to create and implement a design concept for…read moremy living area. It was a pleasure to work with Jessica and we are already in conversations to start Phase II of my renovation. As a new home owner, I was keen to decorate my condo, but found that I just had little time to do so with a demanding job and constant travel. Having never worked with a designer before, Jessica quickly put my mind at ease. During our consultation, Jessica not only got a sense for what I was looking for, but answered my never ending list of questions. As I was traveling during the bulk of the design process, Jessica took complete control of ordering products, managing deliveries, and ultimately installing the space. I couldn't be more pleased to come home after a month-long trip to such a beautiful and inviting space.

I highly regret my decision to work with Decoraid and would urge friends or strangers against…read moreworking with them, and I feel personally taken advantage of. The final outcome took over 9 months and left 40% of the proposal unfilled with no payment back to me for missing services. My main feedback is that the process the firm runs is *incredibly* inefficient and leaves almost no opportunity for collaboration. The other is that the designers are basically just internet shoppers, with no connection to the things they're actually buying. With two in person meetings followed by a single proposal, there's basically no chance to actually get a good outcome. No one knows exactly what they want in the first meeting, and if they did they wouldn't need Decoraid. It takes working through options and figuring out what works well together. Neither designer I worked with (I was given a new designer after 4+ months of nothing happening with the first) used a pinterest board (something that seems super weird for an interior designer) that we could have collaborated through. Instead, they sent over single rug options without any context on other pieces that would fit with it. The reason I would pay someone $2,000 to help design a studio apartment would be for their creative spirit and perspective, and neither were proactive at all - basically just taking the things I wanted and googling them to find options. If you see a couch without pillows or a blanket, shouldn't she be calling out that I need that? Shouldn't she be architecting what to do with a blank 2 floor wall that's 20 feet wide? This seems to be a foundational expectation hearing about friends' experiences with other designers. The other missing aspect is that the designers used entirely cookie cutter options - only limited to West Elm, Crate and Barrel, and All Modern. Interior Designers are supposed to know more than you and do things you can't do in your own free time. They're supposed to have a good eye and be tuned in to off the beaten track options, visiting markets and fairs and hunting for good options. To be honest, they weren't even been good at the cookie cutter options - suggesting terribly uncomfortable itchy thin rugs, and couldn't find a Brass Mirror that was available to order which I found for myself within 10 minutes of looking. Of the first three items to arrive, I returned two of them because they didn't fit. With the amount of effort this took on my side and the time it's taken and the bad results it's yielded, along with no recourse for missing items from the initial proposal, I feel taken advantage of.

Money well invested! Decor Aid is literally my dream come true as it comes to home design. I've…read morealways wanted a well decorated home but I don't have the talent needed (so I wasted a lot of money throughout my life buying furniture that ultimately didn't go well with other items I already had) nor the money to pay tens of thousands for traditional interior designers to come decorate my home. Decor Aid allowed me to get the help I wanted for a very affordable price. My living room pieces are now arriving and I love the result. Because I live out in the suburbs in Boston, they did not have a person that could come to my home. However, they still helped me my putting me in contact with their NYC office (Meredith Cook was my designer, she's amazing) and we did all the work through skype/phone/email. It was very convenient. Meredith was very professional, responsive and patient (with the couple of times I changed my mind) and really tried to work with me in understanding my style before proposing a plan. I plan on using them again for the other rooms in my house.

I highly recommended this company. I have worked with Adrienne and Alex three times. My home…read moretwice and now my office. They have a great eye for style too. They are reliable, reasonable, and clean. They will not disappoint.

Owner ghosted us when we requested a quote, after leading us on for a week. When I advised another…read moreperson looking for quotes that this was her MO, she proceeded to spend a full week harassing me on Facebook and Messenger, fabricating lies as to why she ghosted. Screenshots available on request. Hideously unprofessional. Do not hire.

Awesome Experience working with Amanda and her team…read more Very consultative, helped me define a concept and then showed me endless options, which I appreciated given I ended up picking most of the first go-round selections anyway. Painters finished this weekend and today they installed all of the furniture for my new living room and i LOVE LOVE LOVE it! Party anyone?!?

I have no idea why the one review with 1 star got coverage on here. The other reviews are accurate…read more Amanda is amazing. Amanda helped me find couches for my formal living room. It was all very easy and no fuss. She gave me the website, in which I narrowed it down to two designs that I liked. She suggested that I visit a store in the South End (Mohr and McPherson) that carried that specific brand of couch to do the "sit test" and to see if I still liked it. She was absolutely right, I loved it. I got to sit there and pick my fabric without anyone pushing me to make a decision. I couldn't decide between two fabrics, so the store owner even let me take them home to see if it would match with the paint and rest of the room. Amanda is amazing and I highly recommend her services.

Studio Verticale offers some beautiful European products, from sleek modern kitchens/baths to…read moreunique door/slider offerings. I worked with the owner Mila, Designer David and their team of quality trades people. They didn't try to push their tastes on me, but listened to what I liked and had great ideas to help guide me with choices. They put in space saving glass doors from Italy and installed a gas fireplace in my living room that I'm extremely satisfied with. They handled everything (permit/electrician/contractor). Overall a great experience and I'm contemplating using them again for other projects in my condo in Boston.

My experience with Mila and Studio Verticale were top notch! As a designer, Mila really understood…read morewhat I was "envisioning" for my space and she was able to help me incorporate it into my home. From the very beginning, her service was impeccable. She and her installer, Igor, took care to install my sliding doors in a professional manner and the follow-up, even after everything was finished, was wonderful. I highly recommend Mila and Studio Verticale!

My wife and I had different moments. For me it was pictures 5 and 6, when I saw how the decorative…read morepieces in the dining room connected to those in the living room, and I saw how those two grand spaces would be tied together into the place where our family would gather each Thanksgiving and every cozy snowy Sunday afternoon in between. For my wife, it was picture 4, and the subtle design choices that made the office, a place she would work, feel like home. Intellectually we understood that a listing is not a home. We knew that paint color could be changed and furniture is not a fixture, but after months of house hunting there were many times when we went back and forth between the floor plan and the pictures of empty rooms trying to make sense of the space. There was more than one house that had the right square footage and bathrooms, in the right location, that we never visited because the mismatched pictures didn't connect with us in the way we "knew" our home would. It was a little irrational, certainly, but purchasing a home is about what feels right, not just what is right. We are deeply appreciative of Mark's work, for enrapturing us, and pulling us in, and making sure that we felt an instantaneous connection with the home we so deeply love. In fact, we loved the staging work of the Mark Luther Design team so much, we purchased more than half of the pieces. Mark has been a delight to work with, and I couldn't recommend him more highly.

The service provided was exceptional. I highly recommend using the amazing staging service provided…read moreby Mark Luther Design.

OK, I see one review for Mandarina Studio here, and it's pretty stellar. Let me second that, and…read moreadd a few more things. I retained their service when my partner and I bought a house in Brookline about a year ago. We decided that we basically get rid of all the stuff we had at that point and do the whole house based on a new concept, which we weren't sure about at that point. Plus, we are super busy people, professionally, so we couldn't spare lots of time on this project and so needed someone who was cool and dependable. And here (after we interviewed a few potential candidates) comes Amanda Reid, the principal of this design firm. She was something! First of all, she has such cool, sophisticated taste on everything we need advice on: furniture, wall color, redoing the whole kitchen and bathroom etc. We were originally into the super modern, kind of cold look, but she persuaded us to introduce some eclectic elements like antique pieces into the whole mix, and the resulting space is just unique, tasteful, and functional. Whenever we throw a home party, people who visit our house for the first time usually gasp entering the door. And we tell them we did everything by ourselves (just joking: we give the studio full credit gracefully and gratefully always). There are so many other things I can say, but this is already getting too long. Just a few more things. Amanda is super organized and a crystal clear communicator. Over the course of three-four months, she probably made hundreds, possibly thousands of decisions, small and big. She always presented in her inimitable perfectly clear way what our options were and executed everything in her effortless manner (her presentation skills are something to behold). At work, I interact with some of the smartest people in the world, but rarely have I witnessed such efficiency and transparency in communication. We wanted no headache, no pain, no drama because we are so busy, and Amanda definitely made our life easy. Anyway, to sum up, if you live in this area and have some big complex project, go with her. You wont' regret.

Principal designer and owner of Mandarina Studio, Amanda Reid has designed my personal residence, a…read morenewly acquired loft in Midtown West area of Manhattan in New York City. She was also responsible for interior renovations of common areas for several of my residential income producing properties in Boston and Manhattan. Through the entire process, Amanda demonstrated ultimate taste and passion for interior design. Her vision transformed outdated properties into contemporary stylish spaces. She was very considerate to my requirements and budget constraints. She didn't replace my vision with hers, like many designers do; instead, she adapted her vision to accommodate my needs as a client, while transforming it into a design masterpiece. Amanda is the best designer I have ever worked with through my career of thirteen years as an architect and real estate developer. I highly recommend her to everyone in my professional network for a variety of projects. Max Drivin