About Our Interior Design Team

 
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Who are we?

We are a creative group of Interior Designers in Chicago who are passionate about helping you solve your home design challenges.

You should live in a space that you love being in. We will help you to achieve that vision.


Our Mission

We help you narrow down the thousands of design ideas into one, final plan for your home…so it’s less scary!

Your project is unique.

We work hard to ensure that we are designing a unique space that is tailor-made for your needs - not copying and pasting a previously used design.

You will be guided through the interior design, remodeling and decorating process. Even the simplest of projects can have issues arise. We have the experience to look down the road to try and avoid those roadblocks, minimizing the impact, in case we do run into an issue.

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How We Help You

By offering a variety of design services we are able to help you with everything from buying the perfect house, selecting paint, remodeling your kitchen, styling or staging your bookshelves, and everything in-between.


“… Katy quickly assessed my personal style and brought me a handful of fantastic options for each item that I requested. The paint colors and tile she selected were perfect, and she found an amazing convertible living room table that gets compliments from every guest in my home. Also, because Design Inside charges by the hour (rather than as a percentage of purchases), they had no incentive to ‘upsell’ me to more expensive tile, fixtures, or furniture. The total cost of my redesign was very reasonable and within the budget I communicated to Katy and Bill.”
— Brad O. Chicago, IL – Yelp!

It’s Not Our First Rodeo

Over the years, our team of interior designers in Chicago and Chicagoland have helped hundreds of home-owners design, remodel and decorate their condos, town homes and single family homes. Your project is unique.

We work hard to ensure that we are designing a unique space that is tailor-made for your needs - not copying and pasting a previously used design. You will be guided through the interior design, remodeling and decorating process. Even the simplest of projects can have issues arise. We have the experience to look down the road to try and avoid those roadblocks, minimizing the impact, in case we do run into an issue.


As Seen In

We work hard to deliver an amazing interior design services to our customers. It’s always nice to see when others take notice as well. Here are a few of the awards and features we have received over the years.


“… Working with Design Inside was money well-spent because Kathryn is talented in both technical and creative design. She measured and prepared for every contingency when creating a plan to transform our galley-style kitchen into an expanded and multi-purpose open-concept design that included kitchen, mudroom, and workspace. She was efficient in helping us make design choices to update our bathroom, and concise with material recommendations and measurements needed to replace our front porch…”
— Kenny M. Chicago, IL – Yelp!

How We Started

Kathryn & Bill Cherne started Design Inside back in 2006. They were dating at the time while Kathryn was in Interior Design School and Bill was working as an IT Consultant. One night, Kathryn was venting to Bill about her design job and swore to Bill that “one day” she would do things differently. That night, Bill filed the paperwork with the state of Illinois and Design Inside was born.

Fast forward a few years, now they are married, with twins, running a thriving interior design firm and loving every minute of it.

How We Started

The Interior Design Team

Our passionate crew of designers that help get things done.

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Kathryn Cherne

Kathryn is the co-founder, owner and lead interior designer at Design Inside. Years of designing homes combined with her formal training in Interior Design from Harrington College of Design, Undergrad degree in Psychology from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!) give her a well-rounded background to help ensure that your place is not only beautiful but also functional.

Outside of work, she keeps busy chasing after her twins, Frederick & Elizabeth while trying to keep the house somewhat orderly.

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Bill Cherne

Bill is the other co-founder, owner and interior designer at Design Inside. In addition to designing Kitchens and Bathrooms, he loves to help out specifying new LCD TV’s, audio gear and home automation gadgets. Bill also is responsible for the boring, less flashy tasks like handling accounting, running the back-end servers and fixing the office computers.

Outside of work, Bill keeps busy raising his twins, Frederick & Elizabeth, biking, flying his drone and keeping up on the never-ending list of home improvement projects for his and Kathryn’s 1930’s farmhouse in La Grange.