This is achieved through careful investigation, thoughtful collaboration with our clients and trades, and keen attention to detail from project inception through completion. We aim to deliver well-designed spaces in which they function, materials, and client-experience converge. Our mission is to design interiors that reflect our client and their unique lifestyle. We believe that every kitchen, bath, and other interior space has unique solutions achievable through expert planning. Smith & Ragsdale is an award-winning full-scale interior design firm based in Dallas, TX, specializing in highly functional kitchens and thoughtfully appointed interiors. Please tell us about Smith & Ragsdale Interior Design. We kept pressing forward, and focused more strategically on our marketing, website, and tightening our internal systems so that we would be prepared when we got busy again-which we have! In our industry, there are cycles of busy times and there were a few months earlier this year where we were wrapping up several projects, but the new projects weren’t coming in as readily as they had been. All in all, it really has been a fairly smooth road. We both come to the table with different skill-sets and life experiences-just like a marriage!-and it takes some finesse to find your groove. It took us some time to fine-tune our systems and contracts, and we are in a good place now. Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome? Within our first year of business, we expanded our scope of services to full-scale interiors and furnishings for renovation and new construction. While we’d originally planning to focus solely on kitchen design, our clients requested more of us. We had projects in the works almost immediately after launching our partnership, primarily from repeat clients and referrals. Abby Smith was looking to narrow her scope of services and focus primarily on kitchens, and Abbey Ragsdale was ready to get back into the industry after some time off. Joining forces with another person felt right and the timing was appropriate.
About six months later, after a lot of thinking and a new collaboration on another project, the idea of partnership became a reality. We collaborated on our first kitchen project and discovered we had immediate synergy, and we went on to receive a regional award in the 2013-2014 Sub-Zero & Wolf International Kitchen Design Contest! At a celebratory dinner, the idea of partnership came up but at the time, it just seemed like a fun idea. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.īelieve it or not, we did not go into partnership together simply because we share the same first name! We met in 2011 while Abby Smith was working as an independent Interior Designer and Abbey Ragsdale was working as a Kitchen & Bath Designer at a showroom in the Dallas Design District. Today we’d like to introduce you to Abbey Ragsdale and Abby Smith.Ībbey and Abby, let’s start with your story.
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