Joe Cangelosi Design, LLC

When my husband and I moved into our large 1 bedroom apartment in Manhattan, we were thrilled to have Joe and his excellent decorating eye to help. His creativity and suggestions led us in a direction where the end result not only honors beauty and style, but completely honors who we are as individuals. He encourages you to be bold and pick things you like, and has a great knack for helping you decipher exactly what that is. The patience and care Joe takes in his work is unmatched. No matter where the future finds us, from another apartment in Manhattan to a house in Austin or California, we will forever turn to Joe for his guidance.

When I first sat down to discuss my home design project with Joe, he steered me away from discussing specific choices, but rather asked me to give him a few words describing the feeling of what I wanted my home to evoke. Far from imposing his own aesthetic choices, he went one step further and was able to see past what I said I wanted to find, and provided something that actually responded to what I was seeking.

Through this process we went away from choices I was inclined to make on my own, and instead found options that were in fact a much better realization of what I aspired my home to be. To me that’s the very luxury of having a designer’s help.

Moreover, throughout the process he found many ways to save money and stay within the fairly tight budget I was proposing. He suggested a new arrangement for my existing living room furniture -which both opened up my space, and made it much more inviting. In the kitchen, an all important room to me, he found a new color scheme and hardware for my existing doors and cabinets, which had the effect of giving me a brand new kitchen at a fraction of the cost of ordering new cabinetry. For the few pieces where we did splurge, like a chandelier over the dining room table, he found pieces that somehow both stand out, yet fit perfectly within the overall design of my space.

My home feels bigger and lighter - so much so that my friends can’t believe I didn’t have any structural work done. More importantly, Joe’s calm demeanor took what could have been a stressful experience and turned it into an enjoyable one. He has even become a close friend through this process.