Right Brain, Left Field Interior Design

Our mission:

To create extraordinary spaces for ordinary people and destigmatize the act of hiring an interior designer.

Is this you?

  • You don’t have money to waste

  • You like beautiful things, but don’t think you can afford them

  • You are allergic to the generic and mass-produced.

  • You want to get and stay ahead of trends.

  • You care about the triple bottom line (or at least your own)

  • You can’t visualize

  • You have trouble making decisions

  • You have never implemented a renovation or design project before and don’t know where to start

Why interior design? Emily says “it’s because she wanted to pet lots of nice cats and dogs,” but the real reason is because it sits at the intersection of art and math, which really should be her home address.

THE TEAM

 

Emily Stein, Owner

Emily started her design career in 2005, at the tender age of 18, with very high brow tastes and absolutely no money. Her primary goal -then - was just to wear stiletto heels with a hardhat, but it quickly evolved into an appetite to create extraordinary spaces for ordinary people.

To that end, she founded a nonprofit, inspired by peer-to-peer lending, to teach youth with limited access how to invest in themselves and build self-sustaining income. She is now an advisor to aspiring teen entrepreneurs helping them tighten their business ideas before pitching to funders.

She sat on the board of a nonprofit whose mission was to help LGBTQIA+ youth either aging out of the foster care system or were displaced because of their identity, find emergency shelter.

She volunteered for a nonprofit that provided access to affordable housing to low income women and mothers.

She have worked on various pro-bono design projects and community revitalization projects.

She believes we all deserve to live in a safe, happy, healthy home that we are proud of.

17 years later, she has worked on everything - everything - apartments, condos, townhouses, dorm rooms, bachelor pads, bachelorette pads, a bridal studio, historic properties, restaurants, houses of worship, a funeral home, beach houses, mountain houses, mega-mansions, an aviary, a dairy farm, from Vermont to Palm Beach, for people with famous last names, IMDB or Wikipedia pages, and regular folks just like us.
Fun Facts: Emily is a retired competitive ballroom dancer (gold medal winning, she’d like to note) and currently undefeated at Just Dance in the Stein household.

Daniel Schwartzman, Managing Partner

Daniel is a dedicated professional with multiple years of experience in the financial industry strategically executing leadership and direction. Offering a strong background in risk management, analysis, and loss mitigation. Skilled in collaborating with all members of the organization to achieve business and financial objectives. Instrumental in streamlining and improving processes, enhancing productivity, and implementing technology solutions.

Fun Facts: Daniel is a talented musician and plays multiple instruments.  He also speaks several languages – he’s fluent in English and Hebrew, and conversational in Russian.

Caitlin Speers, Junior Designer

A Hospitality professional turned obsessive organizer, Caitlin takes creating functional systems to the next level. She has been described as the ying to Emily’s yang.

With a keen eye for design, Caitlin believes form, function and fashion all live happily!

Fun Fact: Caitlin is a champion parallel parker - a skill frequently relied upon for all city projects