An Amazing Client Review

One of our clients in North Palm wrote a glowing review. It made me feel so good that I had to share it with everyone. Read on and smile with me! Some iPhone photos for your enjoyment.

To whom it may concern:

Krista Watterworth and her team to helped us create our new home in North Palm Beach and what good luck and good fortune we won when we selected them!

Creating a new home is never easy. Creating a new one, when you are older and have lived your life in different periods and different places, is hard because you want to open up to the new, but hold on to what you have been and who you think you are. You do not want to sacrifice and compromise because this should be the time you do not need to sacrifice and compromise. But there is never any such time- not at least for most of us. Creating a new home is about managing expectations and trying to marry and multiply imagination and expertise to create a space and an environment that is you, not just buying a bunch of things or telling someone to fix it up and returning to discover what they have done. A home is about you not about them.

The site of the condo we chose is nice, but not grand, a ground floor condominium in one of multiple 3 or 4 story buildings, arranged around an inland waterways, each side by side, each pretty much indistinguishable from the others. But a good enough locale nonetheless and in any event it is not the outside looking in that matters, but the inside looking out. The development was a product of the 1980’s and so the size and layout were more generous than most recent products. That was a big advantage. On the down side, however, our condo had several previous owners, each of whom seem to have added bits and pieces to the walls and ceilings as if to mark the property as their own, the net result was- well you can imagine. Or at least you can imagine what it might have looked like; the trick- the skill, the expertise- was imagining what it could look like and how to get from here to there.

We were relocating from Chicago but before Chicago we had been elsewhere. We were bringing most of the furniture, some of which we had purchased over the years, but much of which went back several generations. A few pieces from England were truly beautiful, but almost all of what we called our ‘art’ were inexpensive pieces- treasures to us however-from many of the countries and cultures we had been privileged to visit as part of our professional lives.

We chose Krista based on a Google search for Palm Beach Interior Designers. Her work looked light and bright and all the things within a room seemed to belong with all the other things is a room. There was a completeness and continuity to the appearance. But these were pictures of other people’s rooms and would she be right for us given the raw materials- our rooms, our furnishings and our budget- that she was starting with?

She was! From start to finish, she and her colleagues have been superb professionals. Krista looked at the challenge and laid out how she would work for us and with us at our first meeting. The plan she outlined, the commitments she made, the sequences she outlined- everything happened just as she promised.

They organized and supervised. But we were a team. They did not dominate. They supported us. They took the suggestions we made and either implemented them or improved them so that they more closely represented what we wanted than we had been able to express.

We selected the contractor based on personal recommendations from friends and Krista and he worked perfectly together. The specialists that Krista selected were all excellent. Krista does not have to be in charge of everything. Just make everything work and everyone feel valued and involved.

Much of our furniture had to be recovered and some reconstructed to create the overall sense of space and comfort and quiet elegance we were looking for. The results were beyond anything I hoped for. Our classic and her Florida greens and whites were made for each other.

She identified suppliers and supplies and all the bits and pieces that we needed. She and Timm were our hands, eyes, and ears while we were elsewhere. But they never went off on a tangent and they were great about staying in touch.

The costs were almost exactly as estimated. Of course, choices had to be made while we were underway but these were legitimate and we were the ones who made them. Krista and her team were financially responsible and prudent.

And so, we have our place- on time and on budget. A home, different from anything we have had before, yet with so many of the things from before, a home we can enjoy together, a home and refuge for us and for our children and their children.

We recommend Krista Wattersworth and her team without reservation and we would be pleased to confirm this personally.

Allan Sniderman

Edwards Professor of Cardiology

McGill University