I would stay away from this lady. I hired her for some design help on my remodel. She quoted a price which was fine. She required payment for the project up front which I did. We got about half way through the project when she sent me an invoice for phone calls ($300) which she never told me were additional. I sent her an email questioning it and also said that if anything she was going to be doing that would be an extra charge, she should run it by me first. I never heard from her again!! I called, texted, emailed and she would not respond. There are 2 other negative reviews saying the same thing. Wish I would have read them prior to engaging her. Unbelievable!!!! read more

I am a Realtor with RE/MAX in LA and was working with a client of mine to help sell their home. I brought Jill in to help with staging and some various fix it/home improvement stuff (color consult). I was impressed with what she'd done, my clients were thrilled (as were the Buyers) and am confident it helped add to a quicker sale/higher sale price. The clients who's home I sold ended up using her for their new home! A couple of months later I moved into my own place and used her for my own on-site design consulting to help with furniture arrangement / sourcing new furniture. She did an amazing job and I continuing receive compliments from family/friends. My standards are very high (I'm a perfectionist) and Jill met and exceeded them. I keep her as a top tier referral in my RE/MAX network list & have referred her to several of my clients & colleagues' clients. Can't recommend highly enough! read more

Every time I come home I am reminded of how grateful I am that we found Jill online! My husband & I wanted to repaint, but had no idea how to pick the colors. I'm sure that we'd still be looking at samples if we hadn't met Jill. She helped up pick colors that warmed up our whole home & made a great base to picking out our new furniture. After we painted, Jill helped with space design & helped us pick out & arrange new furniture, art work & lighting. She was always available by e-mail to run ideas by & she made the whole process so much easier than if we were trying to do everything ourselves. read more

I had a very small interior design job that I needed to get some help with, and was fortunate to find Jill. In only an hour of her time, she gave me more than a half dozen different ideas for how to solve my problem, and because of her insight I was able to execute a concept that I'm very pleased to have. I can only imagine how much value she delivers to clients with much grander needs, and envy the good fortune they will undoubtedly have working with her on a larger scale. read more

I just found Jill through a newsletter and loved her style...I had never imagined I could/would hire a designer but I have Baby #2 on the way and desperately needed to get some guidance on pulling the house together. I was tired of making mistakes, trying to find time to repaint, obsessing over the Crate and Barrel catalogue but not being sure of my choices, etc. Jill came over for two hours and literally changed my outlook on my house and life. She left me with paint chips for every room, recommendations on how to rearrange the furniture and how to "fix" the lighting in my house, and so much more. A week later I emailed her for glider recommendations and she found something for me that was $700 less than what I had been seeing..and I liked it better. I now feel like I have a trusted friend and advisor who takes the stress out of decisions that should be fun but never quite are... And I love that she just charges a flat rate and doesn't charge me on what she buys for you...I never understood that! This seems so fair and budget-friendly. I love Jill Seidner!! read more

DO NOT USE Jill Seidner. She went completely off contract and OVER CHARGED us by including time spent drafting the proposal and working on things off-scope and not pre-approved. She is also VERY UNPROFESSIONAL, and doesn't return phone calls. I see a review below about a "falsely kept retainer" and I should have listened... she STOLE our deposit! Do yourselves a favor and AVOID contracting with Jill at all costs! read more

Jill is great! Very creative and personable. I spoke to a lot of designers looking for the right one and Jill was very reasonable and had a really good eye. She knew exactly what would make things look better quickly and the small details made such a big difference! read more

I found Jill by chance via the bargains la website. I had been looking for assistance with interior design off and on for several weeks, but, had not found anyone I would want to work with. After checking out Jill's blog, which I LOVED, I e-mailed her to inquire about meeting to help me select paints. She was quick to respond, and, after meeting today, I am so glad I contacted her. I felt she had a good sense of what I wanted for my home, and, I am so happy with the paint selections we made. I highly recommend Jill for interior design needs! read more

Jill is fabulous! I too was tired of making costly purchases/mistakes or frozen in decision making hell. I finally decided to bring in a professional. Jill helps you hone in on your style, provides a floorplan, gives great furniture and color recommendations (high/low) and sage advice at a very reasonable rate. And she does this within a few weeks. You pay upfront but the girl delivers! I have her working on another room because I had such a great experience. She provides the gameplan and all you have to do is implement at your leisure. read more

We've been working with Jill for years now. It was originally on a wing and a prayer. We moved into our new Santa Monica house and needed some help to do a makeover. We hunted her down online and gave her a shot. You never fully know with anyone on line. But we were glad we did. She had a couple really smart renovations ideas that changed our kitchen and really improved the flow and the feel. She had a great sense of color and how to connect rooms in a cool way. She physically did a lot of hands on work pulling fabrics, designing wall units that the carpenter built and pulling furniture samples. We've done parts of our house over the years or moved into new phases like the furniture phase. We've always brought her back to help us and she's never let us down. No, we're not related... we just appreciate when you can find someone great who loves what they do and do it well. read more

I used Jill's design service in Oct. 2010 when I would like to have some design concepts for my kitchen (I finally had everything done several months ago). She was quick to respond and on time for the initial meeting (this is where the one star comes from). The initial meeting was to discuss what I wanted for the room design, measure, potential needs and floor plan layout, furnishing and accessory selection, and list of resources. Once she found out that we may be interested in her $600 flat rate kitchen package instead of letting her charge me base on a hourly rate, the reaction is a little cold. We decided to give her a try for the flat rate first and this is when she starts to become hard to reach. She turned in a ok looking but impossible floor plan (the measures are not right!) which does not match our needs. We were so frustrated that she did not listen to our needs and ask her to redesign. She responded to us weeks later and asked for additional money if we needs a feasible plan as $600 is just for a floor plan, whether we like it or not. Her pictures on website are nice, but it doesn't matter if she only wants to charge you more. Update: 1/25/2012 It is so interesting that Jill responded Yelp faster than some of her emails for which we had to leave voice messages on her cell. Once it is clear to us that the money was gone and Jill would not fix the impossible design, we accepted it and tried to see what useful information could be obtained (e.g., like color choice). Without dragging into the details I just want to highlight two things: 1) Jill spelled my name wrong (she should not disclose her client's name and design in the reply without the client's consent), and 2) she measured the dimensions of our kitchen swiftly and got them wrong after we showed interests in the flat rate plan; as a result, her design is impossible to fit and she was unwilling to correct the mistake. Enough said! read more

FaIsely kept retainer. I contacted Jill for help with layout and design of my living/dining/family rooms. Her proposal for services amounted to $2250 with a requested retainer of $525. Actual itemized services provided amounted to $1312.50, which was reflected and paid IN FULL in her monthly invoices, and my last payment was made with the last invoice on 6/8/12. She reported after her first invoice that she would not apply the retainer until the final invoice, which I now see was an obvious scam. I did not use Seidner's services to the full estimate of $2250. Seidner recommended removing and relocating a built-in wall unit, the cost of which was prohibitive, and i therefore did not continue with work in my family room, though I paid Seidner for the measurements and drawings on the room which contained the unhelpful recommendation. After the death of my husband, when it was clear no further future services would be requested on the residence as it was going to be sold, i definitively requested return of my retainer, which was still my legal property. Ms. Seidner refuses to do so and has kept $1837.50 for $1312.50 in services provided. Seidner's design work itself is acceptable, but nothing I would refer to family/friends as "great." She also "no showed" to an appt on one occasion (she only came to my house twice), but was responsive by email until I wrote to request a refund of my unspent retainer. read more

I've always wanted to redo my family room and never knew how to go about it. I didn't want to make mistakes buying the wrong furniture or using the wrong colors and regretting it later. When we got our tax return money, the first thing I wanted to do was hire an interior decorator to redo our family room. I was so excited to have found Jill Seidner and her online package seemed to be the perfect budget solution. What I was to get: Initial meeting to discuss what I wanted for the room design, measure, photograph, furniture floor plan layout, furnishing and accessory selection, and list of resources. For part of her online /package design services, she was to source items that I can go and purchase directly. She was to put together an entire design plan for which I can implement. What I requested: - Light, bright, airy, and warm design concept and colors - New paint color, whole family room to look bright, airy, warm and light. - Absolutely NO dark wood furniture. (At the time of consultation, Jill Seidner and I agreed the wood furniture color would be not darker than my current piano wood color which is honey oak color. She said she likes dark wood and I specifically said "no" since we had dark wood for our living room) - Breakfast table with 4 chairs (there's only 3 of us in my family and I said I didn't need a large table since I have a 7 foot dining room table in our living room) What I actually received: - No photograph was taken at the time of meeting - No new paint color selection - Dark and heavy color concept far from bright, airy, warm and light (my current family room has lighter colors and furniture!) - All furnishing selection dark colors with dark wood (no light wood furniture selection available on the list of resources she provided -when asked about it, she sent 15 different color wood stickers in the mail, I am to choose one) Jill Seidner specifically said the resources list will provide items I can buy directly but the furniture selection she provided did not have any other wood color options except dark wood color (one choice) - Dining room table size of 48x84 (takes up more than one third of the family room) that looks almost exactly like the dining room table I already had in our living room. She also chose very similar dining chairs as ones in my living room (chocolate brown leather chairs). - Same color concept as my living room (red, dark brown and beige) in which I said in our initial meeting that I wanted to totally avoid. I reiterated several times what I wanted as far as the colors and design concept. I hired her with an understanding she will provide coordinating furniture and colors to achieve the look I wanted for my family room and she agreed to provide that service. Instead, I got design and colors opposite of what I requested(and looking just like my living room..I still don't get it) and an unusable resource list. At the end what Jill Seidner was saying is that I am to choose my own colors, choose my own wood colors out of the 15 wood color stickers she sent, go find my own furniture similar to what she chose but in the color and size I want, find my own accessories to match those furniture in the color I want. Why did I hire an interior decorator if I have to do this? I had at least 3 friends and few neighbors waiting to see the design since they were very interested in redoing one of their rooms(her online package price is reasonable). Like most people, we just want color coordinating advice and can not afford to hire a full time interior decorator. When they saw the design, their first comment was "wow, it looks dark and heavy and she used same colors as your living room??" She may not realize it but referrals are so important in her line of business! I was very disappointed with her services and would not recommend her(not that anyone who saw her design wanted her number). I know she is highly recommended on yelp (that's why I hired her) but now looking back, there are only 3 reviews dating back to 2008, nothing recent. Hmmmmmm....???? what can that mean? read more