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April 2023 by Jim Robillard
Annie and her team were indispensable as we took on a brand new home project in the mountains. They invested time and energy into understanding our vision, and they were committed to making our house truly “ours”. The whole team was efficient and responsive as well as being incredibly thoughtful and creative. When we encountered the inevitable hiccups in the build process, Annie’s experience and enthusiasm quickly helped resolve any issues. The ALI team’s professionalism around having an organized timeline and extremely detailed budget was impressive and helped us understand how the project would unfold. When we are ready for our next project Annie will be our first phone call.Services: Room planning
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April 2023 by Jim R.
Annie and her team were indispensable as we took on a brand new home project in the mountains. They invested time and energy into understanding our vision, and they were committed to making our house truly "ours". The whole team was efficient and responsive as well as being incredibly thoughtful and creative. When we encountered the inevitable hiccups in the build process, Annie's experience and enthusiasm quickly helped resolve any issues. The ALI team's professionalism around having an organized timeline and extremely detailed budget was impressive and helped us understand how the project would unfold. When we are ready for our next project Annie will be our first phone call.
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February 2022 by Stephanie Garber
When we purchased our 135 year old Queen Anne home, we knew we were going to be undertaking a large project but beyond that, we were pretty clueless.We started the project by interviewing many designers and Annie and her team were by far the most thoughtful. They asked great questions and helped us to really hone in on the scope of our project. What started in our mind as a kitchen and bath remodel, turned into touching all 6000 square ft of our home. Annie helped us find the team to make our dream a reality- referring us to both our architect and contractor and held our hand through the entire process.Annie begins her projects by really getting to know you. She has what is called your “narrative document” that gets you answering questions about your family and your goals. The part that struck me the most was that the majority of the questions were not about aesthetics, rather the feel you want to have when you enter each part of your home and the functionality each space needs to have. And she remembers what you say and makes sure that all of the design choices are made with your ultimate goals in mind.The thing I like best about Annie is she makes the entire project about you and your vision. Not about her ego or her design. She told us in the beginning that our house should look like the best version of us and it does.And although she wants the home to be the best version of you, she has no problem pushing you out of your comfort zone if she thinks it’s the right choice. And any time we second guessed her specifications, we ultimately returned to what she had originally chosen for us and we couldn’t be happier.As with any construction project, we had little setbacks along the way and Annie was always there for us. She was immediately accessible via phone or text when we had “design emergencies”. For example the painter was questioning our color choice for our millwork and I got nervous. I called Annie and she immediately talked me down and the color choice is now one of my favorite parts of our house.These are just a few examples of why Annie was such a great member of our home remodel team. The outcome exceeded our expectations and Annie really brought our ideas to life. I would highly recommend working with Annie and her team on any design project.
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January 2022 by Stephanie G.
When we purchased our 135 year old Queen Anne home, we knew we were going to be undertaking a large project but beyond that, we were pretty clueless. We started the project by interviewing many designers and Annie and her team were by far the most thoughtful. They asked great questions and helped us to really hone in on the scope of our project. What started in our mind as a kitchen and bath remodel, turned into touching all 6000 square ft of our home. Annie helped us find the team to make our dream a reality- referring us to both our architect and contractor and held our hand through the entire process. Annie begins her projects by really getting to know you. She has what is called your "narrative document" that gets you answering questions about your family and your goals. The part that struck me the most was that the majority of the questions were not about aesthetics, rather the feel you want to have when you enter each part of your home and the functionality each space needs to have. And she remembers what you say and makes sure that all of the design choices are made with your ultimate goals in mind. The thing I like best about Annie is she makes the entire project about you and your vision. Not about her ego or her design. She told us in the beginning that our house should look like the best version of us and it does. And although she wants the home to be the best version of you, she has no problem pushing you out of your comfort zone if she thinks it's the right choice. And any time we second guessed her specifications, we ultimately returned to what she had originally chosen for us and we couldn't be happier. As with any construction project, we had little setbacks along the way and Annie was always there for us. She was immediately accessible via phone or text when we had "design emergencies". For example the painter was questioning our color choice for our millwork and I got nervous. I called Annie and she immediately talked me down and the color choice is now one of my favorite parts of our house. These are just a few examples of why Annie was such a great member of our home remodel team. The outcome exceeded our expectations and Annie really brought our ideas to life. I would highly recommend working with Annie and her team on any design project.
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October 2021 by Lisa Rendic
ALI is the best! I whole-heartedly recommend this talented and full service design company. It goes without saying that Annie’s design skills are second to none, what is harder to see is the lengths to which Annie and her team go to ensure your project is a top priority, unique in every way, and becomes the home of your dreams that you never even knew you had. Our finished product is above and beyond our initial expectations in every way. More beautiful, more comfortable, more timeless and more “us” than we ever imagined. Annie takes the time to get to know you and your lifestyle so well that your new design defines you better than you even knew yourself. Annie is part genius, part artist, part therapist and part magician! The ALI process is organized, transparent, on budget and so much fun. The team behind Annie is caring, thorough, communicative, savvy and incredibly talented. I am so glad we found these ladies that created our home with so much heart and brilliance – I pinch myself daily walking around my own house. Annie and her team are 100% amazing!
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October 2021 by Lisa R.
ALI is the best! I whole-heartedly recommend this talented and full service design company. It goes without saying that Annie's design skills are second to none, what is harder to see is the lengths to which Annie and her team go to ensure your project is a top priority, unique in every way, and becomes the home of your dreams that you never even knew you had. Our finished product is above and beyond our initial expectations in every way. More beautiful, more comfortable, more timeless and more "us" than we ever imagined. Annie takes the time to get to know you and your lifestyle so well that your new design defines you better than you even knew yourself. Annie is part genius, part artist, part therapist and part magician! The ALI process is organized, transparent, on budget and so much fun. The team behind Annie is caring, thorough, communicative, savvy and incredibly talented. I am so glad we found these ladies that created our home with so much heart and brilliance - I pinch myself daily walking around my own house. Annie and her team are 100% amazing!
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June 2021 by Jessica Long
We just finished two 4-year projects with Annie and her team. Two extensive remodels. Four years, two pregnancies (mine) and a pandemic. That alone says a lot about her commitment to her work and her clients’ happiness.Annie loves her work and it shows. Her passion about design is contagious making her meetings something you look forward to. She is very thoughtful about your specific needs and life stage, and makes recommendations accordingly. With years of experience under her belt, she can quickly identify ways that design can complement your life that never would have occurred to you.Here’s some of what I love about working with Annie:• She’s got Procter & Gamble roots. So do I. We spoke the same language when it came to process. We discussed up front how the project would unfold so our expectations were managed. And she is very clear with the overall project budget. She provides regular updates regarding how the budget is tracking and is transparent about where any overages are coming from.• She works well with a novice. These were my first interior design projects and I literally had no idea what to expect, much less spoke the language. She was always very patient with me, was happy to walk through even the simple details, and define terms like “escutcheon,” to ensure I understood.• She doesn’t offend easily. In fact, she encourages you to tell her when you don’t like something so she can hone in on what you do like and better serve you. I dislike nearly all sconces and floor lamps, but I now live in a home with multiple of each and I love them all. This is no small feat.• Every detail gets attention. In major projects like ours, some decisions are very big, others very small. I appreciate that even when we were selecting a simple throw for my kids’ room, Annie and her team took care to find options that were appropriate from a material, design and cost perspective. She understands that even the small things matter a lot.Annie loves partnering with you to make your house your home. Thank you, Annie, for your commitment to us and our projects. I am completely in love with our new home.Service: Refurbishment
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May 2021 by Jessica L.
We just finished two 4-year projects with Annie and her team. Two extensive remodels. Four years, two pregnancies (mine) and a pandemic. That alone says a lot about her commitment to her work and her clients' happiness. Annie loves her work and it shows. Her passion about design is contagious making her meetings something you look forward to. She is very thoughtful about your specific needs and life stage, and makes recommendations accordingly. With years of experience under her belt, she can quickly identify ways that design can complement your life that never would have occurred to you. Here's some of what I love about working with Annie: · She's got Procter & Gamble roots. So do I. We spoke the same language when it came to process. We discussed up front how the project would unfold so our expectations were managed. And she is very clear with the overall project budget. She provides regular updates regarding how the budget is tracking and is transparent about where any overages are coming from. · She works well with a novice. These were my first interior design projects and I literally had no idea what to expect, much less spoke the language. She was always very patient with me, was happy to walk through even the simple details, and define terms like "escutcheon," to ensure I understood. · She doesn't offend easily. In fact, she encourages you to tell her when you don't like something so she can hone in on what you do like and better serve you. I dislike nearly all sconces and floor lamps, but I now live in a home with multiple of each and I love them all. This is no small feat. · Every detail gets attention. In major projects like ours, some decisions are very big, others very small. I appreciate that even when we were selecting a simple throw for my kids' room, Annie and her team took care to find options that were appropriate from a material, design and cost perspective. She understands that even the small things matter a lot. Annie loves partnering with you to make your house your home. Thank you, Annie, for your commitment to us and our projects. I am completely in love with our new home.
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May 2021 by Eric Wiesen
Annie is a true artist and a master of her craft.Our project started with a desire to remodel two of our bathrooms. We’d lived in our house for about four years, and the list of “wouldn’t it be nice if…” items had grown pretty long. After finding Annie’s wonderfully colorful and resonant work online and through a shared connection, we went through an intake process. Annie encouraged us to think broadly about ways in which we might refresh and improve elements of the house.In the end, we ended up doing a pretty full redesign and refurnishing, remodeled all of our bathrooms, and checked off a lengthy list of fixes and improvements that have resulted in a transformative feeling of space and ease when we move through the house. We are incredibly happy with how the project turned out.Annie’s process is decision-intensive. She estimated that we had to make over 250 choices in connection with this process. This is not a matter of handing your house over and coming back to a magazine (although she could do that if you asked). We were active partners in a process that took close to two years (including the pandemic!) from first phone call to last little bit of detail coming in. She was very responsive to our design preferences (one of which was that we didn't want our house to look too "design-y"), and always made us feel comfortable speaking up when we didn't like something, as well as stretching us into a few decisions that were just slightly outside of our comfort zone.Annie was extremely attentive to the budget and was continually transparent with us about where we were throughout the process. In the end, we ended up slightly under-budget on goods purchased for the project, which makes us very happy! (We did end up over-budget on design-time, but it's reasonable to assume this was very much pandemic-related. We had to reselect many things over several times when stock was unavailable because of Covid delays...)One anecdote from our experience: our master bathroom design keys off a green tiled floor. After spending a lot of time selecting the hand made tiles that I assume were created by elves on the Moon based on their cost and availability, we finally got the tiles in. And … Annie sent them back. Why? Because they weren't right. There is enough variance between batches of handmade product that this batch had too much mottled brown and that wasn’t going to give us the bathroom we wanted. And this is the yin and yang of working with an artist. Annie had both the design expertise to know that the northern light coming into our bathroom would make the floor look wrong AND she had the willingness to delay the tile setter coming in to get it right. But in the end, we got what we wanted and that’s what counts.We would happily work with Annie on future projects and absolutely LOVE the end-product of our collaboration!
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April 2021 by Eric W.
Annie is a true artist and a master of her craft. Our project started with a desire to remodel two of our bathrooms. We'd lived in our house for about four years, and the list of "wouldn't it be nice if..." items had grown pretty long. After finding Annie's wonderfully colorful and resonant work online and through a shared connection, we went through an intake process. Annie encouraged us to think broadly about ways in which we might refresh and improve elements of the house. In the end, we ended up doing a pretty full redesign and refurnishing, remodeled all of our bathrooms, and checked off a lengthy list of fixes and improvements that have resulted in a transformative feeling of space and ease when we move through the house. We are incredibly happy with how the project turned out. Annie's process is decision-intensive. She estimated that we had to make over 250 choices in connection with this process. This is not a matter of handing your house over and coming back to a magazine (although she could do that if you asked). We were active partners in a process that took close to two years (including the pandemic!) from first phone call to last little bit of detail coming in. She was very responsive to our design preferences (one of which was that we didn't want our house to look too "design-y"), and always made us feel comfortable speaking up when we didn't like something, as well as stretching us into a few decisions that were just slightly outside of our comfort zone. Annie was extremely attentive to the budget and was continually transparent with us about where we were throughout the process. In the end, we ended up slightly under-budget on goods purchased for the project, which makes us very happy! (We did end up over-budget on design-time, but it's reasonable to assume this was very much pandemic-related. We had to reselect many things over several times when stock was unavailable because of Covid delays...) One anecdote from our experience: our master bathroom design keys off a green tiled floor. After spending a lot of time selecting the hand made tiles that I assume were created by elves on the Moon based on their cost and availability, we finally got the tiles in. And ... Annie sent them back. Why? Because they weren't right. There is enough variance between batches of handmade product that this batch had too much mottled brown and that wasn't going to give us the bathroom we wanted. And this is the yin and yang of working with an artist. Annie had both the design expertise to know that the northern light coming into our bathroom would make the floor look wrong AND she had the willingness to delay the tile setter coming in to get it right. But in the end, we got what we wanted and that's what counts. We would happily work with Annie on future projects and absolutely LOVE the end-product of our collaboration!
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January 2021 by Richard Livermore
I wish that I could give 10 stars. Service, talent, great associates, and notwithstanding COVID-19 amazing quality!
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January 2020 by Alix Strough
My house is absolutely perfect and I have Annie Lowengart to thank for it. Annie was recommended to me by a close family friend who had seen her incredibly beautiful room in the 2016 San Francisco Decorator Showcase. I didn’t know Annie at all before we met and had no idea the incredible treat I was in for.
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January 2020 by Lil Pizza 2.
My house is absolutely perfect and I have Annie Lowengart to thank for it. Annie was recommended to me by a close family friend who had seen her incredibly beautiful room in the 2016 San Francisco Decorator Showcase. I didn't know Annie at all before we met and had no idea the incredible treat I was in for. We started with our recently acquired property that had been remodeled and added on to over the last several decades. The house was tired and in need of an overhaul. Annie then arrived and in her kind, direct, confident and creative way painted a vision for us that could not be matched. The only thing that did match was the end result. We now have a new home that is virtually perfect. Every piece - light fixtures, sofas, cabinet faces, window treatments - is better than I could've imagined. From the things I use to pull my closet doors open, to the gorgeous tables and chairs, to the new and immensely practical family-friendly floorplan, everything is beyond my expectations. Of course it goes without saying that while each element looks amazing, what's even better is how comfortable everything is. From the sofas in my family room with their squishy yet firm/nap-ready seats, to the saddle leather pulls she had made in New York for my master closet, every detail is special. One of the most important parts of this whole project however, even above and beyond how insane everything looks, is what a trustworthy and excellent lead she was on the project. Annie brought not only a contractor who would deliver on time, but also an architect who was perfectly in sync with the vision she laid out for us. The accounting was spot on and Annie always kept us up to date on any changes. There were no surprises. Everything blew away our expectations so much that we have now hired Annie to re-design our home in Napa. I can't thank Annie and her team enough for delivering such a complete and total homerun of a house, but also a complete and total lifestyle change for our family; one that is filled with beauty, comfort, value, and a whole lot of fun.
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June 2019 by Luis Santizo
My wife and I built a new home and our only regret is not having discovered Annie sooner.
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June 2019 by Luis S.
My wife and I built a new home and our only regret is not having discovered Annie sooner. Annie has done an exceptional job in making this massive project significantly easier to handle. From the beginning, she intently listened to our vision and then walked us step by step through the selection process all the while providing just enough guidance and direction to allow our styles to come through. She has become part of the "family" and we are very thankful for her friendship and kindness not to mention her amazing sense of style! One of the most refreshing qualities is the confidence in the direction she offers and we could not have navigated the design process without it. I would highly recommend Annie to anyone looking for an amazing partner in this field.
