Palo Alto, CA 94301
about
Jeanese Rowell Design Inc. is a full service interior design firm specializing in distinctive design solutions for homes, offices, and commercial buildings. With our team of highly skilled artisans and carefully selected resources, we help clients with design, plan, and build aspects of any interior or exterior design project, helping to streamline communications and setting each project up for success.
At Jeanese Rowell Design, we help homeowners and builders plan and implement new kitchens, bathrooms, home offices, and theatres. We act as color and lighting consultants, offer custom designed furniture for those hard to fit places, and can provide specialized landscape design services to complement the exterior of any property. Through years of experience and relationship building, our firm has achieved a high level of quality installations; including renovations of cherished family homes, design for new residential construction, and exquisite staging of high end properties for rapid sale.
Jeanese Rowell is a creative professional and customer-focused designer who consistently incorporates the personalities and lifestyles of her clients into her work to create dramatic and thoroughly livable environments. For over 25 years, the firm has built strong relationships with a host of extraordinarily talented artisans and crafts people who have collaborated to realize the full potential of every project. Jeanese also designs and produces her own custom line of furniture, accessory pieces, and upholstery, often using natural products fabricated in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jeanese Rowell is a Palo Alto native, a graduate of Stanford University, and an Allied Member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). The recipient of many awards, Jeanese’s work was recently featured on KRON TV’s Home Improvement Show and has been published in Designer’s Illustrated, Sunset, Home, and Garden Design magazines; and she is a regular design contributor to local ASID Showcases and home tours.
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Testimonials
"I have worked closely with Jeanese Rowell for several years as she has selected carpets and custom rugs for her clients. She is very experienced and has an excellent sense of what will work in each space. Because she is so good at visualizing the end result, she always seems to come up with a perfect fit based on her customer's wishes and the home or office space she is decorating. It's a pleasure to work with Jeanese. She is a gifted designer and very hard worker who is determined to get things right."
-Al Habiby, Stanford Carpets, Palo Alto, CA
"About 3 years ago, we worked with Jeanese Rowell to completely remodel our home. She is a good listener who made sure that she understood our life style and interests before making recommendations. She is very creative and gave us lots of great ideas that enhanced our initial vision. We like the fact that Jeanese isn't locked into a single design philosophy or style but instead works comfortably and collaboratively with her clients, making each individual project unique.
She helped us create our dream kitchen with all new cabinets and appliances, and she introduced really beautiful, sustainable wood paneling and beams on the ceiling that add a lot of warmth and character to the room. We put hardwood floors throughout the house and Jeanese suggested that we set them on the diagonal so that everything would flow visually from room to room. We also redid all of our bathrooms and again Jeanese came up with very unique tile designs and materials to produce the "old world" feel we were looking for. We never hesitate to recommend Jeanese to our friends. We absolutely love our remodeled home and get lots of compliments about it!"
-Debbie McCreary (Los Altos Hills, CA)
"I have done several projects with Jeanese over the years, including a kitchen/family room and a small guest cottage. I would absolutely recommend Jeanese to others. She is phenomenal with colors and she has great resources for every type of work (countertops, floors, cabinetry, window coverings, painting, furniture, etc.)"
-Cameron Bianchi (Palo Alto, CA)
Recently, Jeanese helped me with almost a complete house remodel and I am absolutely thrilled with the results! She has created the house that I have always dreamed of.
When I first started interviewing decorators many years ago for my very first project, they often had a way of making you feel stupid. Jeanese never does that. She has a way of taking your initial ideas and making them better. Even when she disagrees, she listens and then tactfully presents you with wonderful alternatives that enhance your vision and move your project to a higher plane.
I recommend Jeanese Rowell highly to others. We've done several projects together over the years and each one has been different (and a great success). This is one of the things that I think sets Jeanese apart. She brings a wealth of fresh ideas to each new project, and this means that her designs are perfectly matched to the client's wishes and to each space.
-Mary Stone (Los Altos CA)
