Valia Simonson Designs

Jeremy R.Sep 2021

Valia was great. Highly recommended

Janine O.Feb 2020

This was my first time using thumbtack. I thought I would refresh and redesign my kitchen/dining room/living room combination, and I was not entirely sure how to do it. I started with looking for a designer and pinged 3 designers on Thumbtack. The very swiftest response came from Valia Simonson, so I set up a time to chat. The call went great, and I got a sense of her background and her pricing. We set up time to have her come over and see the space. a couple of days later, I heard from another, who I felt I needed to connect with to get a different perspective. She was very pleasant, and yet, her really laid back nature did not give me comfort that she would be a project driver to get the work done quickly. Valia came over and her inquiry about what I wanted to achieve lead me to the path of refreshing my kitchen, which would have by far the biggest impact on the single room. I decided to repaint all the wood cabinets, the walls and the backsplash to achieve a more updated look and bring my kitchen into the modern age. With Valia's designer eye, she suggested new pendulum light fixtures to complete the look. Valia took all of the excess work off my plate to kickstart the project and get it done quickly. She selected three painters, who came and gave estimates, she managed all the back and forth via email, which was so helpful. We chose the paint, and Valia was able to be onsite to project manage the painters, give them access, inspect their work, and make important judgement calls in my absence. THIS WOULD NEVER HAVE GOTTEN DONE WITHOUT VALIA! Valia is highly organized and showed me various light fixtures from which to choose, hardware for the kitchen cabinets, and was completely collaborative on choices. Valia found all of the other skilled professionals: electrician, installer of curtain rods, and coordinated meetings to just get the work done. Valia has great taste and came with ideas that I felt I could reject or explore in more detail. She is a tremendous partner and does so much of the heavy lifting. If I had known this process would have been this easy, I would have done this refresh years ago!!

Joann E.Oct 2019

Valia was very responsive and very helpful on picking out Accessories for my living room u would recommend her for any project for your home.